Sr. Power BI / Microsoft Fabric Developer

Key Responsibilities

• Gather reporting requirements and translate them into effective dashboards, reports, and data visualizations.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain Power BI reports and semantic models.
• Create efficient data models, relationships, calculations, and KPIs using DAX.
• Use Power Query and SQL to transform, validate, and prepare data for reporting.
• Integrate Power BI with Microsoft Fabric and Databricks data sources.
• Optimize report, query, refresh, and semantic-model performance.
• Implement appropriate data security, including workspace permissions and row-level security.
• Document report logic, data sources, calculations, refresh processes, and operational procedures.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, data engineers, and platform teams to resolve data-quality and reporting issues.

Required Qualifications

• Expert-level experience with Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service.
• Advanced proficiency in DAX, Power Query, semantic modeling, and report design.
• Advanced SQL skills, including complex queries, joins, aggregations, common table expressions, and performance optimization.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, including Lakehouse or Warehouse, OneLake, Data Factory pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, and semantic models.
• Experience designing scalable dimensional or star-schema data models.
• Experience connecting Power BI to Databricks, including Databricks SQL warehouses.
• Knowledge of data security, governance, access controls, and secure authentication practices.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder-communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and deliver production-quality solutions within agreed timelines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS data and analytics services, particularly Amazon S3, IAM, AWS Glue, and Amazon Redshift.
• Experience working with cloud-based lakehouse or data-platform architectures.
• Familiarity with deployment pipelines, source control, release management, and automated testing.
• Relevant Microsoft Power BI or Fabric certifications.
• Previous experience delivering enterprise reporting solutions in a contractor or consulting capacity