Data Engineer Senior

We are seeking a Data Engineer Senior to support the development of business intelligence solutions for essential government agencies. As a Data Engineer Senior, you will be responsible for delivering data engineering, data platform, reporting, and analytics capabilities that support operational decision-making and fulfill our customers' data and analytics objectives.

Responsibilities:

• 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 targets 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.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science or closely related discipline.
• 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.