Solution Owner

**Job Title - Solution owner - Power BI**

**Career Level - D1**

**About AstraZeneca**

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca, we 're dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.

**Who we are**:
The Global Business Service (GBS) team sits within Finance at AstraZeneca and is a dynamic and results-oriented environment and provides a range of enterprise-wide services. We dare to change the way we work by freeing up the business to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines. We aim to do this by freeing up time, freeing up money, protecting AZ’s value and providing new capabilities.

**What we do**:
A trusted partner to the business, we’re on a mission to make AstraZeneca more agile, efficient and effective. Through our hybrid model of in-house delivery centers and service towers across the globe, we’re reimagining how we work. Here we drive new ways of working and operating models, process simplification and innovative solutions, whilst ensuring that automation and data is at the heart of everything.

**How we do it**:
Be part of a team building a community. We interact with diverse cultures and perspectives and are united by our sense of belonging. This is the place to learn and grow together.

Why we love it:

- As a growing multi-national company, there’s so much potential to develop. Embrace opportunities at a global business that’s facing new and varied challenges. This is the place to build an exemplary, international CV.
- A fun place to be, we’re creating community hubs that build partnerships, not just working relationships.
- We’re on an exciting journey to take our team to the next stage. This is the place to leave a legacy behind.
- We are a diverse, inclusive and innovative group who identify, build and deliver excellent shared services (which everyone can leverage) to enable AstraZeneca to grow and change at speed. We are passionate about simple process - making it easier to get vital repeatable services done - for our patients, for our customers, for our teams.
- We focus on providing exceptional value that chips in to our company’s success and future by freeing up the business (our customers) to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines for patients. With the accomplishments, commitment and passion that you bring, I’m excited about what we will achieve together towards realizing AstraZeneca’s ambitious ambition.

About the role

The position of Power BI Developer holds a range of responsibilities focused on design, development, and management of BI solutions using PowerBI. Requires a deep understanding of PowerBI and its capabilities, as well as the ability to work with data and communicate it in a user-friendly manner.

This role requires in addition leadership and project management skills, collaborating with direct stakeholders, namely in Business Systems Team.

**Job Description**:
Role and Responsibilities
- Working closely with the business collaborators to understand their requirements and translate them into PowerBI solutions.
- Designing the overall BI solution architecture (both functional and technical)
- Following standard methodologies for data governance, security, and privacy within PowerBI projects
- Creating and handling interactive visualizations and dashboards (or mobile app prototypes) that effectively communicate data insights (Data visualization).
- Optimizing reports and dashboards for speed and performance
- Documenting the technical design and operational procedures related to the BI solutions.
- Supervising PowerBI projects from conception to completion, ensuring they meet business needs and are delivered on time.
- Ensuring the quality of the BI solutions through testing and validation.
- Providing training and support to end-users to help them make the most of the PowerBI solutions.
- Understanding the data model and hence what is or is not possible.
- Liaise with the data team to suggest required changes on data side to work towards “as far downstream as possible”.
- Undertaking appropriate data transformation, if required on BI side
- Data validation and quality checks to ensure dashboards behave as desired
- Guiding the customer during acceptance testing
- Logging and investigating customer support issues and questions
- Work to agreed timelines whilst sustaining quality outcomes
- Create and maintain a standardized, standard methodology development frame work
- Lead and guide potential additional BI resources (internal or external)
- The responsible in this role will have the opportunity to propose new solutions, either within the existing Power BI setup or to suggest how additional functionality could better support the bus