About the role
We are seeking a skilled and motivated Report Developer to join our Performance, Intelligence and Partnerships service to work within our One Council Team. The role is a fixed term offer as cover for maternity leave, starting from mid-May for 1 year.
This is a fantastic opportunity to support a range of services including Environmental Health, Planning, Land Charges, Building Control, Licensing, and Private Sector Housing through the creation, adjustment, and development of essential reports.
In this role, you will support the testing of data migration and the creation of reports in Microsoft Access and Power BI to meet regulatory and performance requirements. You will be responsible for interrogating system databases to extract and structure data in specified ways. This data will be used for further analysis, processing, and visualisation – either for end-user reporting or as part of an automated data pipeline feeding dashboards. You will support ongoing and future business requirements by researching, developing, and adjusting reports based on business needs and ensuring that data is of the highest quality and consistency.
What will you be doing?
This post will focus on the extraction of data from line of business and case management systems to support the wider delivery of performance and intelligence information to services. The role works closely with performance analysts, business analysts, IT and services, and will work on efforts to develop new data flow and pipelines to transform our data provision to make use of more automated and modern platforms.
About you
In all our roles, we are looking for colleagues who see the world through a data lens, are proactive, self-managing, curious and have a self-reliant approach to problem solving. Good communication and strong client facing skills are also a prerequisite.
In this role specifically, strong technical skills in common database standards and software such as Access, SQL, Business Objects, Oracle, Crystal are essential. Skills developing data pipelines, integrating data from multiple sources, and self-service platforms with other tools such as SSRS, Power BI or Tableau and deploying to users, are also important.
Experience of local government or public sector in general would be beneficial.
Our benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About us
Our Values and Behaviours
Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:
Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy
Our Key Commitments
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.
We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030.
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)
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