Power BI Developer - Various Locations!

About the role

Halff is seeking a motivated Power BI Developer (Business Analyst / Power BI) who is ready to quickly learn new business models, integrated data sets, and systems. This role is not visualization-only; you must be able to communicate business value with data accurately. The ideal candidate will create polished, professional Power BI dashboards, semantic models, and curated reporting datasets while being comfortable learning new accounting systems, project and operational data sets, and validating results against trusted sources.

Experience in the AEC / professional services industry, project accounting concepts, or similar ERP-driven environments is highly valued.

Responsibilities

• Learn about Halff and our 75th Anniversary.
• Assist in the design and development of polished Power BI dashboards, including report layout, usability reviews, DAX measures, and semantic models.
• Validate dashboards and datasets against source systems, legacy reports, accounting outputs, and other trusted reporting sources.
• Trace data from source systems through SQL, Fabric, semantic models, and Power BI reports to validate accuracy and explain results.
• Research and understand existing SQL Server VP/DataMart datasets, Microsoft Fabric data assets, semantic models, and reporting logic.
• Design and maintain curated reporting datasets and semantic models in Microsoft Fabric to support scalable, governed analytics.
• Collaborate with internal clients to translate business needs into technical requirements, identify appropriate data sources, and deliver vetted dashboards and datasets.
• Document dataset definitions, business rules, data lineage, assumptions, and known limitations.
• Support front-office, production/operations, and management reporting needs as part of a cross-trained Business Systems team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Analysis, Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related area; equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Intermediate Power BI experience, including DAX, data modeling, semantic models, report design, performance tuning, and row/column-level security.
• Strong troubleshooting and critical thinking skills.
• Strong curiosity, drive, persistence, and ability to quickly learn new business systems, tools, terminology, and processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to research unfamiliar business data, understand source-system context, and turn complex operational data into trusted reporting structures.
• Intermediate Microsoft SQL Server experience, including writing, troubleshooting, and optimizing complex T-SQL queries, views, and stored procedures.
• Strong understanding of data modeling concepts, including fact/dimension design, grain, star & snowflake schema design.
• Experience validating data and dashboards against other reporting sources to ensure accuracy, consistency, and business confidence.
• Ability to manage small to medium-sized projects of moderate complexity.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills.

Skills

• Experience with Deltek Vantagepoint/Vision or other Deltek products.
• Documenting data sets and semantic models to make them AI-ready.
• Using assistive AI technologies for dashboard development.
• Ability to work with business leaders, accounting/finance, operations, and technical team members to understand business needs and deliver practical data solutions.
• Experience with exercising and documenting best practices for dashboard design and data engineering.
• Experience with provisioning self-service analytics.
• Experience creating dashboards for project performance, billing, utilization, backlog, revenue, labor, financial, or operational reporting.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric medallion architecture, lakehouses, warehouses, notebooks, and data pipelines.
• Understanding of compliance, data governance, security, lineage, and documentation practices in reporting and system design.

About the company

Halff is a full-service infrastructure consulting firm planned, designed, engineered, and constructed for people. Since 1950, we’ve been creating smart solutions that improve lives and communities by turning ideas into reality. Our industry-leading professionals collaborate to meet tough challenges in creative ways.

Halff has more than 30 offices in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas, Arizona, and Georgia.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, prescription, and life insurance.
• Long-term and short-term disability insurance.
• Paid time off (PTO) and 8 company paid holidays (and Veteran's Day for veterans).
• Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans.
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
• Health Savings Account (HSA).
• 529 College Savings Plan.
• Flexible spending accounts (FSA).
• Employee Assistance Plan.