Power BI / Insurance Analytics Developer

EXL•Chicago, IL

About The Position

The Power BI / Insurance Analytics Developer designs, develops, and maintains interactive Power BI dashboards and reports for insurance business users. The role develops DAX measures, calculated columns, KPIs, and data models; writes and optimizes SQL for extraction, transformation, reconciliation, and analysis; and analyzes large datasets to identify trends, data issues, and actionable insights. The developer works with business stakeholders to translate requirements into reporting and analytical solutions, validates and reconciles data, investigates root causes of reporting issues, and develops dimensional models. The role collaborates with data engineering, business, and analytics teams to integrate data from multiple systems, applies insurance domain knowledge to reporting and KPI development, and supports performance optimization, production issues, enhancements, and ongoing reporting needs.

Requirements

4–6 years of overall experience in business intelligence, reporting, or data analytics.
Hands-on experience with Power BI and SQL in enterprise reporting environments.
Strong hands-on experience with Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service.
Strong knowledge of DAX, Power Query, data modeling, relationships, drill-through, bookmarks, filters, and visualization best practices.
Experience building complex dashboards and executive or business reporting solutions.
Understanding of Power BI performance optimization and data model design.
Strong SQL skills, including joins, CTEs, subqueries, window functions, aggregations, and complex transformations.
Experience analyzing and reconciling data across multiple tables and data sources.
Good understanding of relational databases, dimensional modeling, and data warehousing concepts.
Ability to investigate data-quality issues and independently perform root-cause analysis.
Good understanding of insurance data and business processes, preferably within Property & Casualty insurance.
Familiarity with policy, coverage, exposure, premium, claims, losses, reserves, limits, deductibles, brokers or agents, and underwriting.
Ability to understand insurance KPIs and translate business questions into analytical reports and dashboards.
Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Ability to interact with business stakeholders and independently convert requirements into technical solutions.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience with an insurance carrier, broker, MGA, or insurance analytics organization is highly desirable.
Experience working with policy, claims, underwriting, or premium-related datasets is preferred.
Exposure to Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, or SQL Server would be an advantage.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain interactive Power BI dashboards and reports for insurance business users.
Develop efficient DAX measures, calculated columns, KPIs, and data models to support analytical and reporting requirements.
Write and optimize complex SQL queries for data extraction, transformation, reconciliation, and analysis.
Analyze large datasets to identify business trends, data issues, and actionable insights.
Work with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into reporting and analytical solutions.
Perform data validation, reconciliation, and root-cause analysis to ensure reporting accuracy and consistency.
Develop and maintain dimensional data models supporting reporting and analytics use cases.
Collaborate with data engineering, business, and analytics teams to integrate data from multiple source systems.
Apply insurance domain knowledge to interpret business data and develop meaningful KPIs and reporting solutions.
Support report performance optimization, production issues, enhancements, and ongoing reporting needs.