Job Title: Senior Power BI Developer

Location: Senior Power BI Developer - Onsite

Only H1B,H4-EAD,E3,OPT-EAD,USC and TN Visas are applicable (No GC's or GC-EAD's)

Employment Type: Contract (C2C/W2)

Experience Required: 10+ years

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Power BI Developer to design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade Power BI reporting and analytics solutions. This role will own the end-to-end delivery of Power BI dashboards, data models, and self-service BI capabilities while ensuring data quality, performance, governance, and scalability across the organization. The candidate must be able to work independently, manage competing priorities, and deliver high-quality analytics solutions aligned with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

Power BI Development & Architecture

• Design, develop, and maintain Power BI reports, dashboards, and semantic models following industry standards and best practices.
• Build scalable and reusable datasets using Power BI Dataflows, Data Marts, and centralized semantic models.
• Implement robust row-level security (RLS) and role-based access controls aligned with organizational policies.
• Own the Power BI roadmap and lead continuous enhancement of BI capabilities across the enterprise.

Data Modeling & Performance Optimization

• Develop optimized star/snowflake schema data models to support enterprise analytics.
• Write complex DAX measures and calculations to support advanced reporting needs.
• Debug and optimize existing reports, datasets, and DAX to improve performance and refresh reliability.
• Proactively monitor model sizes, refresh durations, and capacity utilization.

SQL & Data Engineering

• Design and maintain complex T-SQL queries, stored procedures, and views for data transformation and integration.
• Build unified reporting data layers that feed all downstream reports with governed data definitions.
• Partner with data engineering teams to ensure reliable ingestion and transformation pipelines.

Governance, Security & Capacity Management

• Manage Power BI Service administration including workspaces, security, licensing, and tenant configurations.
• Track usage metrics, monitor capacity, and optimize datasets to prevent licensing or capacity overruns.
• Define and maintain governance frameworks for dataset ownership, certification, and lifecycle management.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, analysts, and IT teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Prepare technical design documents, data dictionaries, and standardized report documentation.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior developers and business users.

DevOps & Documentation

• Maintain version control for Power BI artifacts and SQL code using Azure DevOps.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for Power BI deployments.
• Create standard documentation, development guidelines, and reusable templates.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Stay current with the latest Power BI, Fabric, and Azure analytics features.
• Evaluate new functionalities and proactively introduce enhancements to improve usability, scalability, and performance.
• Design visually compelling, user-centric dashboards using best-in-class UX and data visualization practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Statistics, Information Systems, or related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on Power BI development experience in enterprise environments.
• 8+ years of strong T-SQL development experience.
• Deep expertise in DAX, Power Query (M), and Power BI data modeling.
• Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts and dimensional modeling.
• Experience managing Power BI Service, security models, and licensing.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps for version control, pipelines, and work item tracking.
• Excellent leadership, communication, time management, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in consulting or staffing environments.
• Exposure to Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, or Snowflake.
• Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst, Azure Data Engineer, or SQL certifications.