Job Title: Sr. Power BI / Microsoft Fabric Developer
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Work Setting: Onsite, 3–4 days per week
Role Overview
Sr. Power BI / Microsoft Fabric Developer to design and deliver enterprise-grade business intelligence solutions. This role will gather reporting requirements, build scalable semantic models, and develop high-impact dashboards and reports that translate complex data into clear, actionable insight. The ideal candidate combines expert-level Power BI and DAX skills with hands-on experience across Microsoft Fabric and Databricks, and is comfortable operating independently to deliver production-quality solutions in a fast-paced enterprise environment.
Key Responsibilities
Gather reporting requirements and translate them into effective dashboards, reports, and data visualizations.
Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain Power BI reports and semantic models.
Create efficient data models, relationships, calculations, and KPIs using DAX.
Use Power Query and SQL to transform, validate, and prepare data for reporting.
Integrate Power BI with Microsoft Fabric and Databricks data sources.
Optimize report, query, refresh, and semantic-model performance.
Implement appropriate data security, including workspace permissions and row-level security.
Document report logic, data sources, calculations, refresh processes, and operational procedures.
Collaborate with business stakeholders, data engineers, and platform teams to resolve data-quality and reporting issues.
Required Qualifications
Expert-level experience with Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service.
Advanced proficiency in DAX, Power Query, semantic modeling, and report design.
Advanced SQL skills, including complex queries, joins, aggregations, common table expressions, and performance optimization.
Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, including Lakehouse or Warehouse, OneLake, Data Factory pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, and semantic models.
Experience designing scalable dimensional or star-schema data models.
Experience connecting Power BI to Databricks, including Databricks SQL warehouses.
Knowledge of data security, governance, access controls, and secure authentication practices.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder-communication skills.
Ability to work independently and deliver production-quality solutions within agreed timelines.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with AWS data and analytics services, particularly Amazon S3, IAM, AWS Glue, and Amazon Redshift.
Experience working with cloud-based lakehouse or data-platform architectures.
Familiarity with deployment pipelines, source control, release management, and automated testing.
Relevant Microsoft Power BI or Fabric certifications.
Previous experience delivering enterprise reporting solutions in a contractor or consulting capacity.