ICON Resources
Role:
Associate Consultant, Business Intelligence
Period:
2025
Stack:
Qlik, MySQL, AWS, SAP, ETL
Consulting work sits in the gap between what a business says it wants and what its data can actually answer. At ICON the job was to stand in that gap: gather requirements from enterprise clients, translate them into something a query could satisfy, and build the Qlik dashboards and MySQL-backed pipelines that closed the loop.
The datasets were large and the environments were not tidy — AWS-hosted projects, SAP systems, ETL pipelines with real lineage and real failure modes. Supporting cloud-hosted client work meant learning where data goes wrong before it reaches a chart, which is most of the skill in business intelligence.
The measurable outcome was less manual reporting. Analysing client workflows and recommending optimised data solutions removed recurring hand-assembled reports across several business units and replaced them with something stakeholders could open themselves.
Requirements to dashboards
Enterprise clients consulted directly, business requirements translated into Qlik BI dashboards and MySQL-backed pipelines that accelerated data-driven decisions.
AWS and SAP, at volume
Large-scale datasets across cloud and enterprise environments, supporting ETL pipeline management and BI reporting for hosted client projects.
Less reporting by hand
Client workflows analysed, optimised data solutions recommended, and manual reporting overhead cut across multiple business units.