Remote/Local Power BI Developer (15+)
About The Position
The Minnesota Department of Information Technology Services (MNIT), partnering with the Office of Higher Education (OHE), is seeking a full-time Power BI Developer for a 12-month engagement in St. Paul, Minnesota. The role will write and extract SQL queries, validate student loan data from various sources, build Power BI visualizations, create and maintain business dashboards, remediate accessibility issues, provide ad hoc reporting, and migrate existing Tableau and Crystal reports to Power BI. The developer will set up and configure Power BI within the Power Platform environment and provide user-level training to the State. The role is expected to establish a stable, reliable, and effective Power BI Service reporting environment; create complex custom UI visualizations; analyze loan-related data issues and anomalies; and elicit business requirements when a business analyst is unavailable, including documenting and communicating business rules. The developer will also automate data exports to other formats such as Excel, ensure reports meet agency and performance requirements, configure security and access-management controls, and establish data-refresh strategies using Azure SQL Server and other applicable data sources.
Requirements
- Five years of advanced Power BI development experience.
- Experience performing robust student loan data validation, including forbearance data.
- Strong experience writing technical documentation.
- Excellent communication skills, including communication with high-level leaders.
- Versatile presentation skills for both informal and formal settings.
Responsibilities
- Design a stable, reliable, and effective Power BI Service environment for reporting.
- Develop dashboards for business users and create complex custom Power BI UI visualizations to specifications.
- Write and extract SQL queries and validate student loan data from various sources, including forbearance data.
- Perform data validation to ensure quality across multiple datasets and conduct root-cause analysis of loan-related data issues and anomalies.
- Create and maintain business dashboards, provide ad hoc reporting, and migrate existing Tableau and Crystal reports to Power BI.
- Remediate accessibility issues and ensure reports meet agency and performance requirements.
- Configure Power BI in the Power Platform environment and establish security, accessibility, and access-management controls and best practices.
- Develop data-refresh strategies using Azure SQL Server and other applicable data sources.
- Gather business requirements, identify features, document business rules, and lead technical meetings when needed.
- Collaborate with developers to improve reporting functionality and establish best practices.
- Develop technical manuals and other technical documentation.
- Lead Power BI technical training, mentor and co-develop with business-area employees, and provide user-level training to the State.
- Construct automation routines to export data to other formats, such as Excel.
- Deliver daily project status reports to end clients and track progress against milestones.
- Perform knowledge transfer.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
