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# BI Developer

- **Company:** Autotrader
- **Location:** Manchester, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £40,000.0 - £45,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Big Data, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Transformation, Data Management, Looker Analytics, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5890390196

## About the Role

* Strong SQL language skills and previous experience in enterprise-level BI data platforms.

 * Experience in Looker or similar BI visualisation tools is essential.

 * Experience developing and maintaining data transformation pipelines using dbt or other ETL/ELT tools is highly advantageous.

 * The ability to proactively partner and communicate with internal teams to collaboratively develop insights and metrics.

 * Experience creating and optimising a suite of reports or dashboards for stakeholders to drive business, team, or product performance.

 * A real passion for data and collaboration, with the ability to carry out data analysis before translating that into a concise and insightful story to a wide variety of technical and non-technical audiences.

 * Self-driven and able to use a combination of data, analysis, knowledge sharing, and business acumen to identify and lead new opportunities.

## Description

At Autotrader, we love data and believe decisions are best made when data is involved. We're looking for a BI Developer to join our Finance Systems and BI team. The team is responsible for developing insightful reporting and analysis to enable data driven business decisions.

As a BI Develoepr, you will be responsible for analysing and reviewing big data models and translating this into feature rich business insight capabilities, utilising the latest tools and techniques available on our data platform. The role involves managing and maintaining the Looker reporting suite, handling support requests, assisting with data analysis, and developing and maintaining our data pipelines. You'll provide first-line support for Looker development, maintenance, and queries, while also partnering with our Finance colleagues to ensure our data is structured and surfaced in a way that allows the most accurate and impactful analyses to be undertaken.

You'll also be part of our journey to improve our data-driven decision-making through the development of data packages, reports, and visualisation dashboards, adding these to our BI suite. Providing training and guidance to our Finance colleagues in understanding existing reporting and enabling them to self-serve analysis will also form a core part of this role. Ultimately, you will establish yourself as the subject matter authority in business intelligence across the team.


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