Senior Qlik BI Developer

We are looking for a Senior Qlik BI Developer to take ownership of Qlik applications and platform operations within an assigned domain wave, supporting stability, modernization, and governance activities across the BI estate.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of Qlik applications within assigned domain wave (Finance / Supply Chain), including load scripts, QVD usage, data model, and key calculations
• Implement fixes for defects impacting availability, accuracy, or performance
• Support shadow, reverse-shadow, parallel run, and hypercare activities, including running and monitoring reload cycles and confirming completion and output readiness
• Support parallel-run validation and assist QA with discrepancy triage
• Produce and maintain operational artefacts such as runbooks, known-error database, dependency notes, and monitoring inputs
• Administer Qlik Sense on-prem platform (QMC) and/or Qlik SaaS tenant, including spaces/streams, users, roles, and access configuration
• Manage connectors/gateways (as applicable), reload tasks, and schedules
• Own and stabilise reload orchestration, including creation and update of schedules, chains, and dependencies
• Troubleshoot failed reloads, long runtimes, and capacity issues, and implement operational controls such as alerts, retries, and standard recovery steps
• Support access/security execution in coordination with governance/security teams, including implementation and troubleshooting of Section Access patterns and ensuring least-privilege, audit-ready configuration
• Support assessment and rationalisation of Qlik apps by providing operational and dependency insight on criticality, fragility, and run cost
• Refactor or harden app reload logic and shared assets to enable migration/modernisation workstreams, and collaborate with the data platform team (e.g., Snowflake) on data validation and future-state alignment

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Qlik Sense administration and operations, including on-prem QMC and/or Qlik SaaS tenant administration
• Skills in diagnosing and fixing reload/scheduling issues, including task failures, runtimes, dependency chains, and capacity constraints
• Proficiency in Qlik development, including reading, debugging, and improving load scripts, data models, and QVD structures and performance
• Practical experience supporting BI in a production/BAU context, including incident management, stability-first operations, and runbooks
• Experience with access management and security patterns in Qlik, including Section Access concepts
• Competency in SQL for data validation; exposure to Snowflake is beneficial

Nice to have

• Experience with service transitions, vendor handover, and parallel-run governance
• Experience with large Qlik estates, including standardization, operational controls, and governance
• Familiarity with monitoring/observability setup for BI platforms, including alerting on reload failures, runtimes, and capacity
• Experience modernising BI estates and supporting semantic layer / governed metrics concepts