PowerBI Developer

Quetica•St. Paul, MN

4d•Remote

About The Position

Quetica is seeking a full-time PowerBI Developer to support a project for the State of Minnesota. The role is expected to be performed remotely and involves establishing and maintaining a stable, reliable, and effective Power BI Service reporting environment. The developer will build dashboards and complex custom visualizations, configure Power BI within the Power Platform environment, maintain reports, and migrate existing Tableau and Crystal Reports to Power BI. The role also includes providing user-level training, technical training, mentoring, co-development, and knowledge transfer to State employees. The position supports reporting on student loan data, including validating data from multiple sources and investigating loan-related issues and anomalies. The developer will gather and document business requirements and rules when a business analyst is unavailable, collaborate with developers to improve reporting functionality, and ensure reports meet agency, performance, accessibility, security, and access-management requirements. The work also includes creating automated data exports, developing data refresh strategies using Azure SQL Server and other applicable data sources, preparing technical manuals, and delivering daily project status reports to end clients. Interviews will be conducted remotely via Microsoft Teams. The anticipated project period is December 2026 through August 2027.

Requirements

At least 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

Write and extract SQL queries.
Validate student loan data from multiple sources, including forbearance data, and conduct data-quality validation across datasets.
Develop dashboards, Power BI visualizations, and complex custom UI visualizations according to specifications.
Establish and maintain a stable, reliable, and effective Power BI Service reporting environment and configure Power BI within the Power Platform environment.
Maintain reports and migrate existing Tableau and Crystal Reports to Power BI.
Remediate accessibility issues and apply security, accessibility, and access-management best practices.
Provide ad hoc reporting and develop automated data exports to other formats, such as Excel.
Conduct root cause analysis of loan-related data issues and anomalies.
Gather business requirements and identify new features when a business analyst is unavailable; document and communicate business rules.
Liaise with developers to improve reporting functionality and establish best practices.
Develop data refresh strategies using Azure SQL Server and other applicable data sources.
Ensure reports meet agency and performance requirements.
Develop technical manuals and other technical documentation.
Provide user-level training, lead Power BI technical training, mentor and co-develop with business-area employees, and perform knowledge transfer.
Lead technical meetings as needed.
Deliver daily project status reports to end clients, tracking progress against milestones.