Senior BI Developer

Talent Insights Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 166,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Insights Group in Sydney is seeking a Senior BI Developer for a daily rate contract to own data from requirements through to storytelling dashboards. You will build robust ETL pipelines, data models, and self-serve reports to empower stakeholders with trusted insights.

You will design star schemas, validate data quality, and deliver Power BI/Tableau dashboards while writing optimized SQL, DAX, and Power Query. This role demands autonomy and strong collaboration with business users.

Qualifications

• Hands-on ETL and data modelling experience.
• Proven Power BI development experience.
• Strong SQL and DAX skills.
• Experience with Databricks.
• Self-driven with strong stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with stakeholders to gather requirements and shape them into a data and visualisation solution.
• Design and build ETL pipelines and data models across multiple source systems.
• Build star schema and medallion architecture models to support self-serve reporting.
• Validate and quality-check data before it reaches a dashboard.
• Build Power BI/Tableau dashboards that clearly tell the story behind the data.
• Write and optimise SQL, DAX and Power Query for performance at scale.
• Work autonomously, owning problems end-to-end rather than waiting for direction.

Skills

ETL development

Data modelling

Power BI development

SQL

DAX

Databricks

Stakeholder management

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Databricks

DAX

Job description

Senior BI Developer - Daily rate contract

About the Role

Talent Insights is partnering with a Sydney-based enterprise as they build out their analytics function and push towards self-serve reporting.

We're looking for someone who can sit with a stakeholder, translate what they actually need, build the underlying data model and ETL pipeline, validate the data is fit for purpose, then bring it to life in a dashboard. One person owning data through to story, not a hand-off between a data person and a viz person.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner directly with stakeholders to gather requirements and shape them into a data and visualisation solution
• Design and build ETL pipelines and data models across multiple source systems
• Build star schema and medallion architecture models to support self-serve reporting
• Validate and quality-check data before it reaches a dashboard
• Build Power BI/Tableau dashboards that clearly tell the story behind the data
• Write and optimise SQL, DAX and Power Query for performance at scale
• Work autonomously, owning problems end-to-end rather than waiting for direction

Skills & Experience:

Must haves:

• Strong hands-on ETL and data modelling experience
• Deep, demonstrable Power BI development experience
• Solid SQL and DAX skills
• Hands-on Databricks experience
• Self-driven with strong stakeholder management, comfortable running requirements conversations and owning the outcome.

Nice to have:

• Python experience nice to have, not essential
• A genuine passion for turning data into a clear, compelling story, not just building charts
• Prior experience blending data engineering/modelling work with visualisation delivery, rather than working purely on one side of that line.