Business intelligence (BI) developers process complex internal and external data to identify trends. For instance, in a financial services company, this could be someone monitoring stock market data to help make investment decisions. In a product company, this could be someone monitoring sales trends to inform distribution strategy.
However, unlike a data analyst, business intelligence developers don’t create the reports themselves. They are typically responsible for designing, modeling, and maintaining complex data in highly accessible cloud-based data platforms for business users to use the dashboards. The qualifications expected of a BI developer are:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field
- Hands-on experience in data warehouse design, data mining, SQL, etc.
- Familiarity with BI technologies like Tableau, Power BI, etc.
- Strong technical and analytical skills
Business intelligence developers earn an average salary of $86,500, going up to $130,000 with experience.