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For our Business Intelligence team, we are immediately looking for a Business Intelligence specialist who, together with the other colleagues in the team, will be responsible for the development and management of WUR's enterprise data warehouse. The data warehouse is used within WUR for management information about the business processes.
In the position of Business Intelligence specialist, you are responsible for the further development of the data warehouse, converting data into valuable information for our customers. To be able to do this, we are looking for an all-round BI specialist with the ambition to further develop our PowerBI platform.

With 200 employees, our IT department provides a modern ICT environment for education and research. We work in multidisciplinary teams on current issues in the field of digitization, self-service, security, data management, high performance computing and cloud strategy. So plenty of development and career opportunities for specialists at different levels.

THE FUNCTION
Our BI team's goal is "To support and accelerate business operations within WUR by means of automated, intelligent, reliable, attractive and cross-process management information and insights". The focus is on HR, Finance and project processes. As a BI specialist, you and your team are responsible for:

• Unlocking data from source systems and translating this data to our data warehouse;
• Realizing management reports;
• Realizing the migration of BODS to our new Microsoft environment;
• Building and maintaining reports and dashboards;
• Defining requirements together with colleagues from HR, Finance and Project Management with the aim of continuously improving our BI solution;
• The further development of our PowerBI platform.

• At least a completed HBO education;
• You have demonstrable knowledge of and experience with the Microsoft BI platform, including SSIS, SSAS Tabular and Power BI;
• Experience with programming in T-SQL and DAX;
• You know the best practices regarding PowerBI and Tabular and are able to apply them within the WUR context
• You have a good command of Dutch, both verbally and in writing.

We are looking for someone who is flexible and customer-oriented, who is a good listener and who recognizes the question behind the question. You must be analytically strong, have excellent verbal and written skills, and as a team player take into account colleagues, architectural principles and standardized working methods within WUR.

When it comes to terms of employment , Wageningen University & Research is the place to be. Highlights from our collective labour agreement are, for example:

• Working hours that can be determined in consultation, so that an optimal work-life balance is possible;
• The possibility to build up extra compensatory hours by working more, per week;
• Sabbatical leave, study leave and partly paid parental leave;
• There is a lot of attention for vitality and you can use the sports facilities on campus at an attractive rate;
• A structural end-of-year bonus of 8.3%;
• Excellent pension scheme through ABP.

Of course, these excellent fringe benefits also come with an appropriate salary. Depending on your experience, we offer a salary of at least €4,149 to a maximum of €5,949 (scale 11) for a full working week of 36 hours in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement Wageningen Research. It concerns employment for 32 to 36 hours per week.
Wageningen University & Research stimulates internal career opportunities and mobility with an internal recruitment policy. There are ample opportunities for personal initiative in a learning environment, we offer excellent training opportunities. You will get a versatile job in an international environment with a pleasant and open working atmosphere.

You will be working on the greenest and most innovative campus in the Netherlands, and at a university that has been voted the "best university" in the Netherlands for the 19th consecutive time.

Wageningen University & Research

Wageningen University & Research
The mission of Wageningen University & Research is “To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life”. Under the banner Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen University and the specialised research institutes of the Wageningen Research Foundation have joined forces in contributing to finding solutions to important questions in the domain of healthy food and living environment. With its roughly 30 branches, 7,700 employees (7,000 fte), 2,500 PhD and EngD candidates, 13,100 students and over 150,000 participants to WUR’s Life Long Learning, Wageningen University & Research is one of the leading organisations in its domain. The unique Wageningen approach lies in its integrated approach to issues and the collaboration between different disciplines.

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We will recruit for the vacancy ourselves and do not appreciate unasked for services from recruitment agencies. However, sharing in your network is appreciated.