Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The role of Technical Architect Power BI involves leading the design and migration of BI solutions using Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, requiring extensive experience in end-to-end BI delivery. The candidate must possess strong customer engagement skills and hands-on expertise in Power BI, Azure Data services, and data modernization initiatives. This position is a 12-month contract with the potential for hire, and it is fully remote. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in collaborating with business and IT teams to deliver effective BI solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and migration of semantic data models and reports using Power BI and Microsoft Fabric.
- Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
- Design and implement reporting solutions, leveraging Generative AI tools to enhance data insights.
- Provide constructive feedback during code reviews and participate in Agile/Scrum projects.
- Build and orchestrate end-to-end data pipelines and manage scalable data architectures.
Key Skills:
- 15 years of overall experience with 8+ years in Power BI and experience in at least 7+ projects.
- 1 year of experience with Microsoft Fabric on at least 1 customer project.
- Experience in designing reporting solutions and working with Qlik Sense.
- Proficiency in ETL/ELT solutions using Databricks or ADF/Synapse.
- Strong expertise in Power BI Pro, Premium, and Paginated reports, including advanced DAX and Power Query skills.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Technical Architect Power BI WinSS - 420
REMOTE / Work From Home
12-months contract to hire
We are looking for an experienced Senior Power BI Professional with Fabric, 15 years of overall experience, end-to-end BI solution delivery, strong customer engagement skills, and hands-on expertise in Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and Azure Data services. The candidate must have handled at least 8 Power BI, 1 Fabric projects, led the design and migration of semantic data models and reports.
Skills / Experience
- Overall, 15 years of experience and 8+ years in Power BI with experience in working on at least 7+ Projects
- 1 year of experience working with Microsoft Fabric (Power BI) on at least 1 customer Project
- 7+ years of experience working on designing reporting solutions and experienced with Qlik Sense
- 8+ years of experience working with Business and IT stakeholders to gather requirements, translate business needs into technical specifications, and deliver BI solutions
- 4+ years of experience working with ETL/ELT solutions using Databricks or ADF/Synapse at least 4 projects
- Leverage Generative AI tools and Copilots (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Fabric Copilot, M365 Copilot) to accelerate code development, enhance data insights and streamline documentation
- Applied Gen AI capabilities in tasks - pipeline generation, DAX, SQL authoring, metadata extraction and documentation automation
- Successfully led multiple Data Modernization initiatives leveraging Azure and Databricks
- Provide constructive feedback during code reviews and be open to receiving feedback on your own code
- Prior experience in working on Agile/Scrum projects with exposure to tools like Jira/Azure DevOps
- Secondary Skills Tableau, Azure DE, Databricks, PL 300 Certified
Customer & Architecture Proven experience collaborating with Business & IT teams on requirement gathering and solution design; Experience preparing architecture blueprints; Independently created HLDs and LLDs for BI solutions including data models and reports
Microsoft Fabric Hands-on experience building reporting solutions using Power BI on Microsoft Fabric; Good to have experience working with Fabric Copilots to accelerate data modeling, report generation; Worked with Direct Lake, OneLake, and Lakehouses to design and manage scalable data architectures; Built and orchestrated end-to-end data pipelines using Fabric Dataflows Gen2, Notebooks
Power BI Strong expertise in Power BI Pro, Premium, and Paginated reports; Advanced use of DAX, Power Query, and M language; Proficient with Dataflows, Incremental Refresh, RLS, and Data Modeling; Led multiple report migrations from legacy BI platforms to Power BI
Data Engineering/Modelling Hands-on experience working with ETL/ELT solutions using ADF or Synapse or SSIS or any other industry standard ETL/ELT Tools; Hands-on experience in designing Gold layer and data models for consumption by reports and downstream applications
Well-architected Framework, Best design/coding practices Experience in working in a challenging environment with unclear requirements and contributing collaboratively with the team to refine the requirements
Other Skills
- Problem-Solving and Analytical Thinking Capability to troubleshoot and resolve issues efficiently
- Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain productive relationships with team members
- Provides regular updates, proactive and due diligent to carry out responsibilities
- Communicate effectively with internal and customer stakeholders
- Communication approach: verbal, emails and instant messages