Description
We are seeking a Business Intelligence (BI) Developer Principal to support the development of business intelligence solutions for essential government agencies. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering data engineering, data platform, reporting, and analytics capabilities that support operational decision-making and fulfill customers' data and analytics objectives.
The Business Intelligence (BI) Developer Principal will:
- Design, develop, build, and integrate configurable, interactive, secure, user-friendly dashboards, self-service reporting capabilities, and predictive analytics in Grafana and Power BI.
- Design intuitive, interactive dashboards and visualizations in Grafana and Power BI that communicate business insights effectively.
- Coordinate and implement data replication or feeds required to support downstream stakeholders and external systems.
- Continuously monitor system performance to ensure 95% or greater of analytical queries meet defined Service Level Agreement (SLA) response times monthly, including dashboard load times of five seconds or less.
- Drive user adoption of dashboards and reporting tools, with monthly usage across target users.
- Collaborate with product owners, data engineers, and UX designers to ensure seamless integration of analytics features into the user experience.
- Work with stakeholders to define KPI and other metrics ingest requirements.
- Partner with business leaders, data engineers, analysts, and program leadership to translate business requirements and KPIs into actionable technical designs and insights.
- Build and enhance dashboards and reports in Grafana and Power BI, ensuring performance and usability at scale.
- Extract, transform and ingest data from databases, APIs, or data warehouses using SQL, Python or other ETL tools.
- Implement and validate SQL logic, calculations, and metric definitions across reporting products.
- Maintain and optimize data connections, queries and tool framework.
- Coordinate with Data Engineering to resolve upstream data issues and curate data for reporting.
- Apply visualization standards and documentation so reports are consistent, interpretable, and support adoption.
- Ensure reporting artifacts comply with privacy, access control, and data handling requirements.
- Establish and enforce data governance frameworks, standards, and best practices ensuring data accuracy, consistency, classification, and security.
- Drive continuous improvement of Grafana and Power BI platforms through performance tuning, automation, metadata management, and advanced analytics (predictive and self-service BI).
- Support delivery of architecture design documents, governance artifacts, data lineage, and metadata catalog processes.
The likely salary range for this position is $140,250 - $189,750.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of business intelligence development experience, with at least 3+ years of experience with Grafana and Power BI.
- Strong hands-on experience with Grafana and Power BI.
- Expertise in python, SQL, and data transformations supporting large-scale analytical data systems.
- Advanced SQL skills and experience working with analytical data models and semantic layers.
- Strong PromQL or LogQL command knowledge for querying datasets.
- Strong foundation in data modeling, data warehousing, and ETL processes.
- Familiarity with full LTGM stack.
- Experience delivering reporting in regulated or high-sensitivity data environment.
- Experience assisting with testing, by writing acceptance criteria & confirming test cases results.
- Experience with producing relevant and current requirements, sizing user stories correctly, and removing roadblocks prior to sprints start.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills.
- Consultant mindset with the ability to work with high-level customer stakeholders and build excellent customer relationships.
- Experience identifying and applying industry tools, solutions, methods best practices, and emerging technologies.
- Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills with the ability to formulate and communicate recommendations for improvement.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively, independently, and as part of a team.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay and paid time off
- Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
- Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace