Senior Fabric/Power BI Developer

Position Description
Title: Senior Power BI Developer
Department: MIS
Reports to: Sr. Director, Business Intelligence
Status: Salaried Exempt
Position Purpose: IPG is seeking a Senior Microsoft Fabric / Power BI Developer to design and deliver scalable enterprise analytics solutions across manufacturing, supply chain, commercial, and corporate teams. This hands-on role combines Microsoft Fabric data engineering, dimensional and semantic modeling, advanced Power BI development, and the responsible use of AI-assisted capabilities to improve insight delivery and user productivity. The successful candidate will thrive in a dynamic work environment with rapidly shifting priorities, balancing new solution delivery with the modernization of legacy, on-premises data sources and analytics workloads in Microsoft Fabric.

Principle Accountabilities

Microsoft Fabric & Data Engineering 60%

• Design, build, and maintain scalable Microsoft Fabric solutions using Lakehouse, OneLake, Data Factory pipelines, notebooks, and Dataflows Gen2.
• Assess legacy on-premises data sources, integrations, and reporting dependencies; define practical modernization approaches; and migrate or refactor workloads into governed Microsoft Fabric solutions.
• Develop transformation logic using PySpark/Spark and T‑SQL.
• Design reusable, governed semantic models that support enterprise KPI standardization and self-service analytics.
• Implement data quality validation, observability, lineage, and governance.

Power BI, Analytics & AI 40%

• Develop intuitive, high-impact Power BI semantic models, reports, and executive-level dashboards.
• Write optimized DAX measures and apply performance, usability, accessibility, and visualization best practices.
• Conduct business requirements workshops and translate needs into report designs.
• Support self-service analytics adoption through reusable content, enablement, documentation, and governance.
• Evaluate and apply AI-assisted analytics capabilities, including Microsoft Copilot experiences, where they provide measurable business value and align with data security and responsible AI standards.

Essential Skills and Experience

• 4–7 years of experience in data engineering and BI development.
• Hands-on Microsoft Fabric experience.
• Strong Power BI experience (modeling, DAX, performance tuning).
• Proficiency in SQL (T‑SQL) and PySpark/Python.
• Experience with Git-based version control.

Skills (Aligned to IPG Values)

• Integrity and reliability in handling data.
• Strong teamwork and communication skills.
• High performance mindset with ownership and accountability.
• Passion for learning and continuous improvement.

Preferred but not required:

• Experience with Azure services and Microsoft Purview.
• Power Platform experience.
• Background in manufacturing
• Microsoft certifications.