Senior Power BI Developer

Innova Solutions•Salt Lake City, UT

10h•Onsite

About The Position

A client of Innova Solutions is immediately hiring for a Senior Power BI Developer. This is a Full-Time, 13-month contract position located in Salt Lake City, UT 84116, and it is an onsite role. As a Senior Power BI Developer, you will be responsible for facilitating the collection and definition of requirements for reporting and analytics projects. You will translate business requirements into scalable semantic models, dashboards, reports, and technical solutions aligned with enterprise architecture and data strategy. Collaboration with stakeholders is key to building intuitive, effective, and high-performing reporting solutions. The role involves designing and maintaining dimensional data models, including fact and dimension tables, relationships, hierarchies, and reusable measures. Developing advanced DAX calculations for KPIs, business rules, time intelligence, and analytical reporting is also a core responsibility. You will build and maintain Power Query / M transformations for data ingestion, cleansing, shaping, and standardization. Developing reporting and analytics solutions using enterprise data platforms including Azure, Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, and other cloud or relational data sources is expected. Partnering with data engineering and IT teams to support data integration, orchestration, and pipeline workflows that enable reporting and analytics solutions is crucial. Optimizing Power BI models, datasets, and reports for performance, scalability, usability, and refresh reliability is a key aspect of the role. Support for analytics extensions using Microsoft Fabric and, where appropriate, Python and R is required. Troubleshooting and resolving data quality, performance, modeling, refresh, and reporting issues will be part of your duties. Implementing and maintaining report security, workspace standards, deployment practices, and technical documentation is also expected. You will also develop ad hoc reports, dashboards, and analytical solutions as needed, and promote Power BI best practices, governance, and enterprise adoption across the organization. Planning, executing, maintaining, and successfully delivering assigned projects are essential functions of this role.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Ability to interface effectively with personnel at all levels of the company, including senior management.
Advanced experience with Power BI, DAX, Power Query (M language), SQL, and dimensional data modeling.
Strong experience building and optimizing enterprise Power BI semantic models, reports, dashboards, and data transformations.
Experience troubleshooting performance, refresh, query, and usability issues in Power BI environments.
Experience with Power BI governance, gateways, deployment pipelines, and row-level security.
Experience working with enterprise data platforms and cloud data environments such as Azure, Azure Data Factory, and Snowflake.
Knowledge of modern BI development practices, including governance, documentation, testing, and deployment.
Experience with Microsoft Fabric.
Experience with Azure data services, Azure Data Factory pipelines, and Snowflake in support of analytics and reporting solutions.
Experience with Python and/or R, C# or Visual Basic.
Familiarity with Tabular Editor, DAX Studio, Performance Analyzer, or similar tools.

Responsibilities

Facilitate the collection and definition of requirements for reporting and analytics projects.
Translate business requirements into scalable semantic models, dashboards, reports, and technical solutions aligned with enterprise architecture and data strategy.
Collaborate with stakeholders to build intuitive, effective, and high-performing reporting solutions.
Design and maintain dimensional data models, including fact and dimension tables, relationships, hierarchies, and reusable measures.
Develop advanced DAX calculations for KPIs, business rules, time intelligence, and analytical reporting.
Build and maintain Power Query / M transformations for data ingestion, cleansing, shaping, and standardization.
Develop reporting and analytics solutions using enterprise data platforms including Azure, Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, and other cloud or relational data sources.
Partner with data engineering and IT teams to support data integration, orchestration, and pipeline workflows that enable reporting and analytics solutions.
Optimize Power BI models, datasets, and reports for performance, scalability, usability, and refresh reliability.
Support analytics extensions using Microsoft Fabric and, where appropriate, Python and R.
Troubleshoot and resolve data quality, performance, modeling, refresh, and reporting issues.
Implement and maintain report security, workspace standards, deployment practices, and technical documentation.
Develop ad hoc reports, dashboards, and analytical solutions as needed.
Promote Power BI best practices, governance, and enterprise adoption across the organization.
Plan, execute, maintain, and successfully deliver assigned projects.