Power BI Developer

GD Information Technology • Bossier City, TX

10h • Onsite

About The Position

GDIT is hiring a Power BI Developer to design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain enterprise business intelligence solutions for government customers. The role creates interactive dashboards, reports, visualizations, and analytical solutions that provide actionable insights to business and technical stakeholders. It translates reporting requirements into scalable, reusable solutions and works with stakeholders across the solution development lifecycle.

The developer builds semantic models and analytical components using DAX, transforms and prepares data with Power Query and M, and connects solutions to enterprise data sources. The role also manages Power BI Service content, refreshes, gateways, access controls, deployment, testing, performance, troubleshooting, and technical documentation. The position is onsite in Bossier City, Louisiana, with 40 scheduled weekly hours and less than 10% travel required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying business intelligence and analytics solutions.
• Hands-on experience developing enterprise reports, dashboards, semantic models, and analytical solutions using Microsoft Power BI.
• Experience integrating and transforming data from multiple enterprise data sources.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service.
• Strong proficiency with DAX for measures, calculations, and analytical logic.
• Strong proficiency with Power Query and M for data transformation and preparation.
• Experience designing semantic models, relationships, hierarchies, measures, and calculated columns.
• Experience with dimensional data modeling and star-schema design.
• Strong SQL skills, including developing and optimizing queries for reporting and analytics.
• Experience integrating Power BI with SQL Server, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Dataverse, Excel, APIs, and other enterprise data sources.
• Experience implementing row-level security and managing access to Power BI content.
• Experience publishing and managing reports, semantic models, dashboards, workspaces, and Power BI applications.
• Experience configuring and troubleshooting scheduled refreshes, data connections, and on-premises data gateways.
• Ability to troubleshoot and optimize Power BI report, semantic model, DAX, and query performance.
• Understanding of data quality, data validation, and reporting governance principles.
• Experience supporting deployment of Power BI solutions across development, test, and production environments.
• Ability to translate business and reporting requirements into scalable, maintainable, and reusable technical solutions.
• Ability to communicate complex data and analytical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to thrive in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to provide technical guidance and knowledge support to junior staff.
• Willingness to stay current on Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and emerging analytics technologies.
• Must be able to pass a background check to obtain a position of Public Trust.
• Must hold Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate (PL-400 or AB-400) and ITIL v4 or v5 Foundation certifications.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Power BI deployment pipelines and source/version control practices.
• Familiarity with Agile methodology.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain enterprise business intelligence solutions using Microsoft Power BI.
• Develop interactive dashboards, reports, visualizations, and analytical solutions for business and technical stakeholders.
• Gather and translate business and reporting requirements into scalable, reusable Power BI solutions.
• Develop semantic models, relationships, measures, calculated columns, and other analytical components using DAX.
• Transform, cleanse, integrate, and prepare data using Power Query and M language.
• Connect Power BI solutions to enterprise data sources, including SQL Server, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Dataverse, Excel, and APIs.
• Design efficient data models using dimensional modeling and star-schema principles.
• Develop and optimize SQL queries, views, and data transformations used by Power BI solutions.
• Configure row-level security and other report and dataset access controls.
• Publish and manage reports, semantic models, dashboards, and applications in Power BI Service.
• Configure and troubleshoot data refreshes, gateways, connections, and scheduled refresh processes.
• Monitor and optimize report, semantic model, and query performance.
• Support promotion of Power BI solutions across development, test, and production environments.
• Perform unit and integration testing and support user acceptance testing.
• Troubleshoot and resolve report, data model, data quality, refresh, gateway, and data-source connectivity issues.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, data definitions, report specifications, and solution documentation.
• Collaborate with analysts, developers, administrators, architects, data teams, and stakeholders throughout the solution development lifecycle.
• Present analytical findings, dashboards, and technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Provide technical guidance and knowledge support to end users and junior staff.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Competitive pay and paid time off.
• Full-flex work weeks where possible.
• Medical plan options, including some with Health Savings Accounts.
• Dental plan options and a vision plan.
• Vacation, sick, personal, holiday, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• Short- and long-term disability benefits.
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.

What This Job Offers

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