Power BI Developer

Transform technology into opportunity as a Power BI Developer at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career.

You will play a crucial role in:

• Designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise business intelligence solutions using Microsoft Power BI
• Developing interactive dashboards, reports, visualizations, and analytical solutions that provide actionable insights to business and technical stakeholders
• Gathering and translating business and reporting requirements into scalable and reusable Power BI solutions
• Developing semantic models, relationships, measures, calculated columns, and other analytical components using DAX
• Using Power Query and M language to transform, cleanse, integrate, and prepare data for reporting and analytics
• Connecting Power BI solutions to enterprise data sources, including SQL Server, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Dataverse, Excel, APIs, and other structured data sources
• Designing efficient data models using dimensional modeling and star-schema principles to support enterprise reporting and analytics
• Developing and optimizing SQL queries, views, and data transformations used by Power BI solutions
• Configuring and implementing row-level security (RLS) and other report and dataset access controls
• Publishing and managing reports, semantic models, dashboards, and applications within the Power BI Service
• Configuring and troubleshooting data refreshes, data gateways, connections, and scheduled refresh processes
• Monitoring and optimizing Power BI report, semantic model, and query performance
• Supporting deployment and promotion of Power BI solutions across development, test, and production environments
• Performing unit and integration testing and supporting user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Troubleshooting and resolving issues with reports, data models, data quality, refreshes, gateways, and data-source connectivity
• Developing and maintaining technical documentation, data definitions, report specifications, and solution documentation
• Collaborating with business analysts, developers, administrators, architects, data teams, and stakeholders throughout the solution development lifecycle
• Presenting analytical findings, dashboards, and technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Providing technical guidance and knowledge support to end users and junior staff

To succeed, you must have:

• 3+ years of experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying business intelligence and analytics solutions
• Hands-on experience developing enterprise reports, dashboards, semantic models, and analytical solutions using Microsoft Power BI
• Experience integrating and transforming data from multiple enterprise data sources
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service
• Strong proficiency with DAX for measures, calculations, and analytical logic
• Strong proficiency with Power Query and M for data transformation and preparation
• Experience designing semantic models, relationships, hierarchies, measures, and calculated columns
• Experience with dimensional data modeling and star-schema design
• Strong SQL skills, including developing and optimizing queries used for reporting and analytics
• Experience integrating Power BI with SQL Server, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Dataverse, Excel, APIs, and other enterprise data sources
• Experience implementing row-level security (RLS) and managing access to Power BI content
• Experience publishing and managing reports, semantic models, dashboards, workspaces, and Power BI applications
• Experience configuring and troubleshooting scheduled refreshes, data connections, and on-premises data gateways
• Ability to troubleshoot and optimize Power BI report, semantic model, DAX, and query performance
• Understanding of data quality, data validation, and reporting governance principles
• Experience supporting deployment of Power BI solutions across development, test, and production environments
• Familiarity with Power BI deployment pipelines and source/version control practices
• Familiarity with Agile methodology
• Ability to translate business and reporting requirements into scalable, maintainable, and reusable technical solutions
• Ability to communicate complex data and analytical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment
• Ability to provide technical guidance and knowledge support to junior staff
• Willingness to stay current on Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and emerging analytics technologies

The likely salary range for this position is $76,565 - $92,000.