BI Analyst/Data Analyst
Posted 1 day ago by Harnham
£650 Per day
Outside
Remote
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of a Contract BI Analyst (Looker) involves supporting a significant overhaul of a marketplace platform's analytics environment. The successful candidate will leverage their expertise in Looker and LookML to improve reporting, rebuild models, and establish governance standards for self-serve analytics. This position requires collaboration across various teams to enhance data quality and performance. The contract is for 6 months and is classified as outside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with engineering, insights, finance, and wider stakeholders to understand reporting needs.
- Rebuild, optimise, and standardise Looker models and dashboards.
- Improve overall performance, remove ambiguity, and develop self-serve analytics.
- Establish reporting governance: define what good looks like and drive consistency across teams.
- Act as a collaborative, hands-on specialist embedded across both insights and engineering.
Key Skills:
- Expertise in Looker & LookML (large-scale environments essential).
- Strong SQL.
- Proven experience improving data models and dashboard performance.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Nice to Have: Python, Databricks.
- Soft Skills: Highly collaborative, self-sufficient, and proactive.
Salary (Rate): £650.00/daily
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Contract BI Analyst (Looker) - 6 Months - Outside IR35 - £550-£650/day
Location: Remote
Duration: 6 months
IR35: Outside IR35
Day Rate: £550-£650/day
Start: ASAP
The Opportunity
A leading marketplace platform is seeking an experienced BI Analyst with strong Looker & LookML expertise to support a major overhaul of their analytics environment. You will work across engineering and insights functions to improve reporting, rebuild Looker models, and introduce governance standards that enable self-serve analytics. The organisation has recently moved responsibility for ~80 Looker models into the engineering team. Data quality is currently poor, and they need a contractor capable of operating at scale-not someone who has only worked on one or two models. This role will suit someone who has owned or re-architected large Looker ecosystems.
What You'll Be Doing
- Partner with engineering, insights, finance and wider stakeholders to understand reporting needs.
- Rebuild, optimise and standardise Looker models and dashboards.
- Improve overall performance, remove ambiguity, and develop self-serve analytics.
- Establish reporting governance: define what good looks like and drive consistency across teams.
- Act as a collaborative, hands-on specialist embedded across both insights and engineering.
Required Skills
- Expertise in Looker & LookML (large-scale environments essential)
- Strong SQL
- Proven experience improving data models and dashboard performance
- Ability to work independently while collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Nice to Have
- Python
- Databricks
Soft Skills
- Highly collaborative
- Self-sufficient and proactive
Interview Process
- Introductory virtual meeting with Engineering Manager
- Technical session with the data team
- Final interview with the Insights function
Desired Skills and Experience
- Led overhaul of Looker ecosystem, improving ~80 models and dashboards.
- Established reporting governance and defined standards for self-serve analytics.
- Partnered with engineering, insights and finance to address data quality issues.
- Delivered scalable LookML solutions, boosting performance and reducing ambiguity.
- Built stakeholder-friendly dashboards and improved end-to-end reporting processes.
- Worked collaboratively across teams while operating independently as the Looker specialist.