Power BI Lead Developer

Job Summary

The Power BI Lead Developer is a role within the Finance department where hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying Power BI solutions is required. A successful candidate has a passion for consulting with internal stakeholders to understand their needs, visual storytelling, and modeling data to deliver Power BI-based solutions. This position brings and maintains in-depth knowledge on visual design and data modeling best practices within Power BI, performance tuning, deployment, and architecture planning, as well as being an expert in SQL.

Job Duties

• Leads the design, development, and implementation of the company’s BI architecture and strategy
  Collaborates with data governance team in developing data modeling standards, standardized datasets, and governance frameworks
  Serves as the technical authority for Power BI development
  Creates reusable components and templates for Power BI development
  Understands business requirements and design data models to transform raw data into meaningful insights and compelling stories
  Creates effective and compelling “art of the possible” presentations to help highlight solutions
  Builds visualizations that take complex information and make it more accessible, understandable, and usable to derive insights and enable better business decisions
  Explores large data sets and relational databases, perform analyses and identify unique storytelling opportunities
  Implements modern data visualization methodologies and maintains an up-to-date knowledge of data visualization approaches
  Imports, cleans and analyzes large data sets from disparate data sources
  Creates relationships between data and develop tabular data models
  Creates complex Data Analysis Expression (DAX) measures to support the data analysis needs of visualizations
  Maps data models to source systems and track entire data lineage
  Configures incremental refresh logic for reports and understands how to design a model which supports incremental refresh, including writing and deploying the XML for Analysis (XMLA) commands to customize incremental refresh
  Develops data model documentation explaining algorithms, parameters, models, and relations
  Develops training documentation for Power BI reports
  Collaborates with data engineers in ingesting and warehousing data to support data models
  Serves as a leader to other team members, reviewing proposed solution designs, conducting code reviews, and troubleshooting advanced technical issues
  Manages workspaces, user permissions and deploys Power BI apps
  Supports complex Row Level Security (RLS) within Power BI
  Maintains a broad and current understanding of advancements and best practices in the design and development of data analytics solutions
  Stays up-to-date on Power BI monthly updates
  Trains and mentors team members on Power BI best practices

• Other duties as assigned

Education

• Bachelor's degree, required; degree in Computer Science, Accounting, or Finance, preferred
• Five (5) or more years of experience within Data Analytics, Business Intelligence or Application Development, required
• Five (5) or more years of experience with Power BI, required
• One (1) or more years of experience with Data Modeling, Semantic Model Definition or Star Schema Construction, required
• Experience working with Finance data, preferred

Software

• Strong SQL skills, required
• Strong ETL/ELT processes, required
• Microsoft Power Automate Experience, preferred
• Oracle Database Experience, preferred

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels and communicate complex concepts to senior and non-technical audiences
• Capacity to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and client personnel
• Solid organizational and excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to successfully multi-task while working independently or within a group environment
• Comprehensive knowledge of data design, data modeling, data management, and data visualization
• Strong analytical and research skills related to the retrieval and organization of high volumes of information
• Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment, and handle multiple projects simultaneously
• A team player who can lead and initiate
• Ability to work after hours and weekends as needed
• Excellent organizational and time management skills