Head of BI

Join our journey to create a new experience for the National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.

About us:

We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group – a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus and Italy.  We are the operator of the Fourth Licence (10 year licence) for the National Lottery since February 2024.

We’ve developed ground-breaking technologies, built player protection frameworks, and have a proven track record of making lotteries better.  Our aim is to create one of the UK’s most inclusive organisations – where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.

While the main contribution of the National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do.  Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, largescale transformation journey to build a bigger, better, and safer National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.  

Role Purpose:

• To set up and implement a strategy for which will enable the modern, secure, compliant, efficient and effective data management and utilization of information from the business
• To lead a diverse team of in house and third-party to deliver Allwyn DWH and BI solutions
• Enable Data Driven culture in the organisation.

Role Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the entire BI department and ensuring that its activities align with the company’s goals and objectives.
• Setting and executing the strategic direction for the BI team
• Collaborating with C-level executives and other department heads to identify opportunities and challenges where BI can provide solutions.
• Managing the integration of BI tools, databases, and systems to ensure seamless data flow and availability.
• Prioritizing BI initiatives based on organizational needs and ROI.
• Ensuring that the Reporting & Self-Service BI and Data Platforms and Integrations teams operate efficiently and meet their deliverables.
• Championing the continuous development and upgrade of BI tools, technologies, and practices
• Foreseeing risks and issues on delivery and providing resolutions
• Cultivating a data-driven culture within the organization, promoting data literacy and training
• Ensuring data quality, accuracy, and governance standards are maintained.
• Evaluating and selecting vendors and tools for BI needs, negotiating contracts, and managing vendor relationships.
• Create culture of efficiency, collaboration, innovative and proactive for business users and across other functions.
• Monitoring BI trends and advancements in the industry to keep the organization competitive.
• Managing escalations around Production systems issues and delivery.
• Establishing KPIs for the BI team and regularly reviewing performance.
• Coordinating with IT, data science, and other relevant departments for cross-functional projects.

Key Measures of Success:

• Successful on-time delivery, adhering to quality and security measures of organisation, of BI/DWH projects and related milestones
• Systems readiness for production by start date and capable of matching agreed SLAs
• Successful KPIs adherence on production systems.

Key Skills and Experience:

• Experience in delivering complex greenfield or transformational BI projects within tight deadlines
• 10+ years of proven working experience in requirements analysis, design, development, testing and support of BI large-scale projects
• Proven experience in an Analyst/Developer role in relational database systems, data management, reporting, analytics in a multidimensional large data warehouse environment utilizing AWS technologies stack (e.g. Redshift, Athena, SQL Server, etc.)
• Extensive experience in ETL tools (SSIS, Informatica, DataStage or similar) implementation, selection and rollouts.
• Advanced experience in Report/Dashboard design and multidimensional analysis using tools such as PowerBI, SAP BusinessObjects, Tableau, QlikView, Oracle BI, Microsoft SSAS/SSRS or similar
• Very good knowledge with data mining and analytics tools (Databricks, IBM SPSS Modeler, SAS Data Mining, SAP Predictive Analytics)
• Experience in implementing and running a Big Data Cloud platforms
• Strong hands on Technical, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Effective organizational and planning skills to deal with a variety of projects
• Extensive experience in Org design and interpersonal skills to inspire and motivate staff.
• Experience in managing and working with budgets. Presenting to C-level on initiatives and transformations which provides ROI for them.
• Experience on implementing latest BI, Data governance, Data Science, AI systems.
• Good to have experience on Betting and Gaming and Lottery industry.

Our goal is to create one of the UK’s most inclusive organisations – where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.

Allwyn is an Equal Opportunity Employer which prides itself in being diverse and inclusive. We do not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or victimisation in the workplace.  All employment decisions at Allwyn are based on the business needs, the job requirements, and the individual qualifications.  Allwyn encourages applications from individuals regardless of age, disability (visible or hidden), sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Benefits

• 26 days paid leave (plus bank holidays) 

• Annual bonus scheme 

• 2 x Life Days 

• 4 x Salary of Life Insurance 

• Pension: we’ll match your contribution up to 8.5% 

• Single Private Health Cover 

• £500 Wellness Allowance 

• Income Protection 

• Enhanced parental leave (maternity and paternity) 

• Eye Care, Dental and Cycle To Work schemes 

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