Business Intelligence Developer (Chicago)

Targeting talent in Milwaukee, Chicago, Nashville, Evansville, and Minneapolis for onsite contract role

Talimer's client, the fifth-largest commercial bank headquartered in the Midwest, seeks a Senior Data Analytics Developer to join its Community Banking Data Office.

This institution combines the stability of a leading regional financial institution with the culture and relationships of a community bank. Its Community Banking Data Office is building a class-leading analytics team that solves complex business challenges and transforms banking data into meaningful insights that improve business performance and the customer experience.

The right candidate combines advanced technical expertise with strong business acumen and brings proven experience as a contractor. This is a high-autonomy role. You will gather and refine requirements, align scope, define the product, and engage to solve problems as they arise. Strong attention to detail, time management, and project management skills are table stakes. This client trusts its team to execute

Start Date: Immediate; target before December 2026

Duration: On demand project work, ongoing and dependent on assigned client workload

Location: Onsite; client footprint includes Milwaukee, Chicago, Nashville, Evansville, and Minneapolis

Compensation: $65–$80/hour, commensurate with experience, paid weekly as W2 employee of Talimer

Benefits: Talimer talent working 30+ hours per week for 30 consecutive business days are eligible 401(k) retirement plan enrollment after 90 days

Technology: Employer provided

Responsibilities:

Analytics Leadership

• Lead large analytics initiatives through planning, execution, and completion by providing peer leadership, collaborating across functional teams, building consensus with business and senior stakeholders, and implementing logical solutions
• Own the full analytics delivery lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing enhancements
• Build, develop, and maintain data models, dashboards, reports, data automation solutions, and performance metrics that support key business decisions
• Proactively evaluate data and data technology trends to guide business partners on emerging opportunities
• Ensure data accuracy, quality, and consistent reporting by designing analytics solutions with appropriate data controls aligned to established policies, procedures, and standards
• Drive development standards and best practices across analytics tooling, including SQL, Python, Power BI, and Databricks
• Present analytical findings, KPI insights, and recommendations directly to senior leadership

Power BI & Business Intelligence

• Create consistent dashboards, reporting, and analytics experiences for business users
• Elicit and understand business requirements from stakeholders, translating business needs into BI solutions and data models that transform raw data into meaningful insights
• Translate ambiguous business challenges into structured analytical problems and actionable reporting solutions

Data Engineering & Analytics

• Partner with business users to derive requirements, identify data sources, and transform data using SQL and Python to produce file extracts for Power BI dashboards and downstream systems
• Partner with Data Engineering and Cloud teams to define and enhance ETL/ELT pipelines, Azure Databricks transformations, and SQL Server structures
• Perform exploratory, ad hoc, and qualitative analysis to identify trends, customer behaviors, operational opportunities, system issues, and non-recurring reporting needs
• Create customized calculations and business intelligence solutions that improve performance visibility and decision-making

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Inform technology direction by evaluating emerging tools, capabilities, and data platforms
• Provide thought leadership and mentorship to junior developers and analysts while elevating the maturity of the analytics practice
• Influence enterprise adoption of data-driven decision-making and support data culture transformation initiatives

Requirements:

• Prior contract experience required; independent contractors and agency-placed candidates are preferred
• Financial services experience required, with direct domain knowledge in one or more of the following: indirect lending, mortgage, deposit-to-lending financial modeling, or community banking operations
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Data Science, MIS, Statistics, or another relevant discipline; Master's degree in a data-related field preferred
• Five to ten years of analytics, business intelligence, or data engineering experience within financial services or another complex enterprise environment
• Expert-level proficiency in SQL, including advanced optimization, stored procedures, and performance tuning
• Power BI mastery across data modeling, DAX, semantic models, and enterprise design patterns
• Proficiency in Python for data wrangling and analytics
• Command of data visualization best practices and user-centered dashboard design
• Experience with Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake, SQL Server, and hybrid cloud data environments
• Demonstrated ability to deliver analytics solutions that influence executive decision-making and drive measurable business outcomes
• Clear communicator with the ability to translate complex data concepts for non-technical stakeholders
• Disciplined project and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple time-sensitive initiatives independently
• Proven record of supporting data culture transformation initiatives
• Client-centered approach to partnering with line-of-business stakeholders

Nice to Have:

• Microsoft Fabric experience
• Knowledge of major banking core systems including Signature, MeridianLink, Encompass, Executrax MCIF, Salesforce, or similar platforms
• Agile project delivery experience
• Proven ability to guide business partners through data-driven transformation

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All candidates must be located and authorized to work in the United States. Talimer does not sponsor work visas. No C2C.