Power BI Architect - Senior Engineer- 1 Year Position

Deseret Mutual Benefit Administrators•Salt Lake City, UT

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

DMBA (Deseret Mutual Benefit Administrators), a non-profit organization that administers benefits for companies owned or affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is seeking a highly experienced, hands-on Power BI Architect / Senior Engineer to establish and mature an early-stage enterprise Power BI environment. This is a 12-month contract position with the potential for a 12-month extension. The role follows a hybrid schedule, with in-office work required on Mondays and Tuesdays. The position provides technical leadership across Power BI architecture, administration, configuration, security, development practices, and deployment. The successful candidate will combine architectural expertise with hands-on technical delivery, working with the BI/ETL team to build production solutions and establish standards, tools, and practices that support Power BI at enterprise scale. A key objective is knowledge transfer and team enablement. The role will help establish a scalable platform, introduce modern development practices—including appropriate use of AI—and enable the internal team to independently develop, administer, troubleshoot, and support the environment.

Requirements

Significant hands-on experience designing, implementing, administering, and supporting enterprise Power BI environments.
Strong understanding of enterprise BI and data architecture.
Experience establishing development standards and governance practices.
Experience troubleshooting complex Power BI platform and development issues.
Ability to work as both an architect and a hands-on developer.
Strong communication, mentoring, and technical training skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Tableau.
Experience migrating from Tableau to Power BI.
Experience with Azure data technologies.
Experience with Git and GitHub.
Experience with CI/CD and automated deployment.
Experience with Power BI APIs and scripting or automation.
Experience with command-line development tools.
Experience with MCP-based development tooling.
Experience with AI-assisted software, analytics, or BI development.
Experience with enterprise data warehouse environments.
Experience with ETL/data engineering platforms and processes.
Experience supporting organizations with both Tableau and Power BI.

Responsibilities

Assess the current Power BI environment and recommend improvements to its architecture, configuration, administration, and scalability.
Establish enterprise standards for Power BI development and administration.
Design and implement workspace, application, and content organization strategies.
Establish security standards for workspace access, data access, sharing, and row-level security where appropriate.
Help establish development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and support practices.
Design and build production-quality Power BI reports, dashboards, semantic models, and supporting solutions.
Develop semantic models using appropriate dimensional modeling practices.
Work with SQL-based data sources and collaborate with data engineering and ETL developers.
Establish reusable development patterns and examples for internal developers.
Modernize Power BI development practices through version control, automated deployment and CI/CD, command-line and scripting tools, APIs and automation, MCP-related tooling where appropriate, AI-assisted development and troubleshooting, and repeatable development, testing, review, and deployment processes.
Evaluate existing Tableau solutions and identify candidates for migration or redevelopment in Power BI.
Determine when Tableau functionality should be replicated versus redesigned using Power BI capabilities.
Provide technical guidance for transitioning reporting and analytics capabilities from Tableau to Power BI.
Transfer knowledge and train the internal team to independently develop, administer, troubleshoot, and support the Power BI environment.

Benefits

Competitive pay.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits with low premiums.
401(k) company match.
8% EDRC Employer Discretionary Retirement Contribution.
Life insurance.
Full-service financial planners onsite at no cost.
Generous paid leave that starts accruing on the first day.
Birthday off.
Additional sick leave.
12 paid holidays.
Wellness program with the ability to earn three additional days off per year.
Wellness activities and an onsite gym.
Tuition reimbursement.
Career development through company-sponsored programs and more than 5,000 on-demand online training courses.
Hybrid work schedule, depending on position.
Employee Assistance Program.