Power BI Developer

Purpose of the Position: This role focuses on designing, developing, and implementing reporting and analytic solutions using Power BI, with AWS Redshift serving as the data warehousing platform and Denodo as a Data virtualization platform. The position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to convert business requirements into actionable insights that facilitate data-driven decision-making. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring that data is effectively modelled, easily accessible, and presented in a way that aligns with our clients' business needs.

Location: Nagpur/Pune/Bangalore/Chennai

 Key Result Areas and Activities: 

• Power BI Development: Design, develop, and implement advanced Power BI solutions, including interactive dashboards, reports, and scorecards. Utilize your expertise in Power BI to create visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces that effectively communicate data insights.
• Data Modelling and Integration: Collaborate with data engineers and business analysts to understand data sources, perform data modelling, and ensure the availability of clean and accurate data for analysis. Integrate data from various sources into Power BI, ensuring data quality and consistency.
• Analytics: Utilize analytics features of Power BI, such as DAX calculations, statistical modelling, and machine learning integration, to perform sophisticated data analysis. Extract valuable insights from complex data sets and present them in a clear and actionable manner.
• Collaboration and Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements, understand their needs, and translate them into effective data visualizations.   
• Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Document data models, report specifications, and development processes to ensure knowledge sharing and maintainability. Create user guides and training materials to enable self-service analytics for end-users. 
• Quality Assurance and Troubleshooting: Validation of developed Power BI solutions to ensure accuracy, functionality, and adherence to business requirements. Troubleshoot and resolve any issues or bugs that arise during testing or production.

Essential Skills:

• Proficiency in SQL, DAX, Power BI Report builder, Power Query Editor & Power BI Services
• Experience in designing and implementing data models to support reporting and analytics, including the creation of semantic models
• Experience in developing interactive, visually appealing reports and dashboards
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, able to troubleshoot data discrepancy issues
• Should be able to develop and maintain semantic models to ensure consistency and accuracy in reporting
• Work closely with business stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into technical solutions

Desirable Skills:

• MicroStrategy to Power BI migration experience
• Retail domain knowledge is a plus
• Experience of working with Agile
• AWS Redshift experience
• Exposure on performance optimization and scalability of Power BI solutions

Qualifications:

• BE Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS or other technical disciplines
• 3-5 years industry relevant experience in Power BI development projects

Qualities:

• Proven ability to develop successful relationships with external and internal partners
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated problem solving, multi-tasking, troubleshooting skills with a high degree of flexibility
• Demonstrated self-leadership with the ability to work independently, lead team and manage conflict
• Proven learning agility as data technologies and capabilities evolve rapidly
• Should be able to provide technical support to other team members as required