Business Intelligence (BI) Manager

GOVX • San Diego, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Business Intelligence Manager is a hands-on Manager / Technical Lead who leads GOVX’s Business Intelligence and Analytics function. This player-coach role combines strategic leadership with deep technical ownership of our BI environment, enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization. The BI Manager is responsible for semantic model design, analytics pipeline development, ad-hoc reporting, and advanced analysis that support business operations and financial performance. This role owns semantic models and business logic, Power BI datasets, reports, and standards and Gold-layer analytics data, BI governance, modeling patterns, and analytics enablement. This role requires a strong understanding of business processes and metrics, a passion for modern analytics technologies, and the ability to clearly communicate insights through both written and verbal presentations. The BI Manager regularly provides recommendations and participates in cross-functional problem-solving related to system performance, operational efficiency, and financial outcomes. The BI environment is built on Microsoft Fabric, including Spark notebooks, Delta Lakehouse architecture, semantic data models, and the Power BI platform. The BI Manager ensures that analytics data is high-quality, well-governed, and trusted, bringing strong working knowledge of Fabric concepts (OneLake, Lakehouse, Direct Lake, Spark) and deep expertise in Power BI, data modeling, DAX, and performance optimization. This role manages a small BI team and collaborates closely with Data Engineering and Product Management. The BI Manager works to load shape Silver data into analytics-ready Gold datasets. While this is a leadership role, it remains hands-on, directing BI developers while actively contributing to model design, reporting, and targeted data transformations. This position reports to the Chief Technology Officer.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in math, computer science, or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of experience in Business Intelligence, Analytics Engineering, or BI Development.
• Strong working experience with Microsoft Fabric, including OneLake, Lakehouse concepts, Direct Lake
• Strong hands-on expertise with Microsoft Power BI including Data modeling, DAX, Power Query (M), Performance tuning
• Experience designing and managing semantic models at scale.
• Proficiency in SQL and familiarity with Spark / PySpark sufficient to work confidently in the gold layer.
• Experience leading standards, reviews, and best practices.
• Strong communication skills and ability to translate business questions into analytics solutions.
• Ability to interact with internal customers and gather reporting requirements.
• Ability to deliver high quality solutions on time.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in digital commerce, e-commerce, or data-driven product organizations.
• Microsoft certifications (e.g., PL-300, Fabric Analytics Engineer).
• Familiarity with data governance concepts (RLS/OLS, data quality, metric definitions).
• Experience operating in a small or mid-sized data team where roles are hands-on and cross-functional.

Responsibilities

• Act as a player-coach, contributing directly to BI development while leading the function.
• Mentor BI developers and analysts through code reviews, modeling reviews, and design guidance.
• Establish and maintain BI standards, documentation, and review processes.
• Plan and prioritize BI work in alignment with business goals and data platform strategy.
• Lead development of dashboards and reports that deliver clear, actionable insights.
• Establish best practices for visualization, accessibility, performance, and usability.
• Own Power BI workspace organization, dataset lifecycle management, and report certification.
• Enable and govern self-service BI, balancing flexibility with consistency and trust.
• Own the Gold layer of the analytics data model within Microsoft Fabric.
• Perform Spark / SQL transformations (e.g., PySpark, SparkSQL) to shape curated data for analytics use cases.
• Ensure Gold-layer data is analytics-ready, well-documented, and optimized for Direct Lake and Power BI consumption.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering to request upstream data changes or enhancements when needed.
• Partner with Data Engineering to define data contracts, schemas, freshness requirements, and quality expectations.
• Translate business needs into clear, actionable data requirements for engineering teams.
• Work directly with stakeholders to define KPIs, prioritize analytics initiatives, and validate outputs.
• Act as the primary BI point of contact for analytics questions and decision support.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements and trends in data analytics and technology, and identify opportunities to leverage new tools and techniques.

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off
• Paid Sick Leave
• Paid Holidays
• 401(k) plan with discretionary match available
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Voluntary benefits including Critical Illness, Group Accident, and Voluntary Life
• Employee Referral Program
• Gym on site
• Discounts on the GOVX website

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager