BI Platform Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce has a client that is seeking a Platform Engineer in Westlake, TX.

Overview:
This position assembles business requirements to develop systems requirements and/or process solutions to address business needs in the organization. This person will be primarily working on Power Platform (Power BI, PowerApps, Power Automate) activities and build automation frameworks and manage Power BI resources to support different business units across the organization. This person should have skills such as PowerShell, REST APIs, Cloud migration experience. This role encapsulates all tasks needed to translate business requirements into a technical solution. You should be highly inquisitive and analytical with a strong intuition for business coupled with the ability to extract meaningful information from the data.

REQUIREMENTS:
* Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile software development
* Experience with data warehousing concepts, dimensional modeling, and relational database fundamentals
* Skilled in data modeling and defining relationships between data objects
* Ability to design and maintain end-to-end data pipelines (ingestion, transformation, validation, publishing)
* Proficiency integrating data from multiple systems into centralized reporting platforms with a focus on data quality
* Strong SQL skills for data analysis and troubleshooting
* Demonstrated experience working with Business Intelligence tools

Strong expertise in Power BI development, including:
* Semantic model design
* Advanced DAX
* Report and dashboard development
* Performance optimization

Experience developing AI-enabled applications supporting Power BI such as:
* Monitoring dashboards
* Gateway health analytics
* Usage/adoption insights
* Automated alerting

Hands-on experience integrating AI capabilities within Power BI:
* Hands-on experience using Power BI Copilot to accelerate report development, generate DAX measures, create data models, and refine visuals through natural language prompts
* AI visuals (Key Influencers, Anomaly Detection, Smart Narrative)
* Natural language Q&A
* Automated pattern detection & predictive analytics
* Understanding of Power BI governance, Data Security, Sensitivity Labels, RLS/OLS, and enterprise-scale content management
* Experience with Microsoft Fabric (Dataflows Gen2, Notebooks, Pipelines, Lakehouse) nice to have
* Experience supporting platform-level activities: Disaster Recovery (DR), gateway monitoring, version upgrade validations, and tenant feature evaluation
* Experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub, Terraform)
* Experience with Power Platform: Power Apps, Power Automate, PowerShell, REST APIs

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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