BI Engineer

Sonata Software•San Antonio, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Business Intelligence Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing interactive dashboards, reports, and visualization solutions. This role involves implementing best practices in BI development, including data modeling, visualization standards, and performance optimization. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to align reporting solutions with business objectives and evolving analytical needs. Key responsibilities include developing and maintaining semantic data models and reporting layers using BI platforms like Power BI or Tableau, ensuring data accuracy and governance, and contributing to BI development standards. The role also involves supporting and optimizing existing BI assets, evaluating new BI tools, and troubleshooting production reporting environments. Additionally, the engineer will design and implement analytical data models, integrate source systems, and partner with business stakeholders to deliver actionable insights. This position requires a Bachelor's Degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience, with 6-8 years of experience in delivering BI and analytics solutions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
6-8 years of experience delivering scalable, secure, and high-performing business intelligence and analytics solutions that enable enterprise reporting and data-driven decision-making.
5+ years designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise BI dashboards, semantic data models, and reporting platforms using modern tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Looker, MicroStrategy, or similar cloud-based analytics technologies.
5+ years of experience working with data warehousing, data modeling (star schema, dimensional modeling), and data integration to support reporting, analytics, and self-service BI initiatives across large-scale projects.
5+ years of hands-on experience building interactive dashboards, advanced visualizations, and performance-optimized reports while ensuring data accuracy, governance, and standardized business metrics.
5+ years leading or mentoring BI developers, analysts, or cross-functional analytics teams, driving best practices in dashboard design, reporting standards, and BI platform governance.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and optimize interactive dashboards, reports, and visualization solutions that enable reliable and scalable business insights across the organization.
Implement best practices in BI development including data modeling, visualization standards, and performance optimization to ensure high usability and responsiveness of reporting platforms.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align reporting solutions with business objectives and evolving analytical needs.
Develop and maintain modern semantic data models and reporting layers using BI platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, or other cloud-based reporting tools.
Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and governance through standardized metric definitions, data validation, and documentation practices.
Contribute to BI development standards, reusable dashboards, templates, and data models to promote scalability and self-service analytics.
Maintain and enhance existing dashboards, reports, and BI assets to ensure performance, reliability, and alignment with security and governance policies.
Evaluate and recommend new BI tools, visualization techniques, and reporting frameworks to continuously improve analytics capabilities.
Support production reporting environments, troubleshoot issues, and perform root cause analysis while driving continuous improvement of BI processes.
Design and implement efficient analytical data models (star schemas, semantic layers, and aggregates) that support enterprise reporting and dashboarding needs.
Perform detailed analysis of source systems and datasets to ensure accurate integration with reporting platforms.
Apply best practices in data modeling, metadata management, and version control to maintain consistency and transparency across BI assets.
Partner with business stakeholders, analysts, and data teams to deliver trusted and actionable insights through well-designed dashboards and reports.
Translate business questions and analytical requirements into scalable BI solutions aligned with enterprise data and analytics strategies.
Contribute to the evolution of enterprise BI platforms by shaping reporting standards, governance frameworks, and long-term analytics roadmaps.
Additional responsibilities as assigned.