Senior Power BI Developer
Summary
Owns enterprise reporting end to end in Plano, TX: building executive Power BI dashboards and governed semantic models with DAX, Power Query, and RLS, writing advanced SQL against cloud warehouses like Snowflake, and supporting a secondary Tableau estate while mentoring junior developers. Full-time, on-site/hybrid.
Senior Power BI Developer
Location: Plano, TX | Experience: 8+ years | Reports to: [Manager, BI & Analytics]
Type: Full-time | Work model: [On-site / Hybrid]
About the Role
We're hiring a Senior Power BI Developer in Plano to own enterprise reporting end to end — from stakeholder conversations through governed semantic models, tuned SQL, and dashboards executives rely on daily. You'll be the technical authority on Power BI, contribute to a secondary Tableau estate, and mentor junior developers.
What You'll Do
- Build in Power BI: Executive dashboards, interactive reports, KPI scorecards, and paginated reports — with complex DAX measures and Power Query (M) transformations.
- Govern and secure: Implement Row-Level Security, tune dataset and report performance, and manage workspaces, refresh schedules, and gateway configuration in Power BI Service.
- Translate requirements: Meet with business and department leaders, convert needs into technical specs and wireframes, and deliver on an Agile cadence.
- Model data: Maintain governed semantic layers with certified metrics, conformed dimensions, and hierarchies; support star/snowflake schemas on Snowflake, Databricks, or equivalent.
- Write serious SQL: Complex joins, CTEs, window functions, and stored procedures — plus profiling and optimization of slow queries and pipelines.
- Validate: Source-to-report reconciliation and regression testing to keep metrics accurate and consistent.
- Support Tableau: Dashboards using LOD expressions, table calculations, parameters, and action filters; extract optimization and Tableau Server/Cloud publishing and permissions.
- Lead: Mentor junior developers, set BI standards, and document architecture and data lineage.
What You'll Bring
Required
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Information Systems, Analytics, or related field
- 8+ years in BI development, including enterprise projects with direct stakeholder engagement
- Strong Power BI portfolio, including Paginated Reports
- Proficiency in DAX and Power Query (M)
- Row-Level Security and Power BI performance tuning experience
- Advanced SQL — joins, CTEs, subqueries, window functions; able to analyze large existing procedures and functions
- Experience with large datasets in Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Azure Synapse, or SQL Server
- Solid grasp of data modeling and visualization principles; comfortable in Agile teams
Preferred
- Microsoft PL-300 or DP-600 certification
- Tableau development experience; Tableau Desktop Certified Professional
- Tableau Server/Cloud administration
- Tableau Prep, Alteryx, or dbt
- Exposure to Looker, QuickSight, or Figma for wireframing
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