25-153 BI Developer

Morson; Toronto; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a BI Developer for a remote contract position. The candidate will design and maintain BI solutions, ensuring they align with reporting governance. Required qualifications include a Bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience in BI development with strong skills in SQL and Power BI. Hourly salary ranges between $60 and $85.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in BI development focusing on data modeling and reporting.
• Certification in Power BI or Azure is beneficial.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with cloud-based data warehousing.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable semantic data models.
• Develop and optimize data models within Azure.
• Collaborate to ensure BI models adhere to governance frameworks.

Skills

Business Intelligence

SQL

Power BI

Data Modeling

Data Warehouse

DAX

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Azure Synapse Analytics

Databricks

Power BI

Job description

Overview

Job Title: BI Developer

Resume Due Date: Tuesday September 23 2025 (5: 00PM EST) | Number of Vacancies: 2

Level: MP4

Duration: 12 months

Hours of work: 40

Location: Oshawa ON (100% remote)

Job Overview

JOB FUNCTIONS: Semantic Modeling & Enterprise Reporting is responsible for designing developing and maintaining enterprise-grade semantic data models and scalable business intelligence solutions aligned with organizational reporting governance and data strategy. This role will ensure that Business Intelligence models and supporting data infrastructure will enable trusted consistent and self-service analytics across the organization. This role combines technical expertise in reporting applications such as Power Bl enterprise data modeling and cloud data platforms with a deep understanding of data governance and scalable analytics architecture.

Responsibilities

JOB DUTIES:

• Semantic Model Development: Design and build robust reusable and governed semantic data models ensuring consistency and scalability for enterprise reporting and self-service analytics.
• Data Platform Integration: Develop and optimize data models within the enterprise solution stack (i.e. Azure Databricks Power Bl etc.) to serve as authoritative sources for Power Bl or similar reporting applications and other BI tools.
• Alignment with Governance: Collaborate as required with data governance enterprise architecture and business teams to ensure all BI models adhere to data quality security and reporting governance frameworks.
• Scalable Architecture: Architect BI solutions that scale across business units leveraging best practices in data modeling partitioning and performance optimization.
• Requirements Gathering & Translation: Engage with business stakeholders as required to gather analytics requirements and translate them into technical design specifications for semantic models and data pipelines.
• Data Quality & Documentation: Implement as required data validation lineage tracking and metadata documentation to ensure transparency trust and ease of use for business users.
• Collaboration: Work with data engineers to design data flows and pipelines within existing enterprise technology solution stack (i.e. Azure Data Bricks etc.) to ensure seamless integration with the reporting platform.
• User Enablement: Develop and maintain reusable datasets certified data models and documentation to support self-service BI and reduce reporting duplication.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay up to date with advancements in Power BI Azure Synapse Databricks and enterprise BI best practices; proactively recommend improvements to data modeling and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science Information Systems Engineering Mathematics or a related field.
• Certification in Power BI Azure or related technologies is an asset.
• 5 years of experience in BI development with a focus on enterprise-scale data modeling and reporting.
• Proven expertise in building and managing semantic models in Power BI or similar tools (including DAX tabular modeling and dataset certification).
• Hands-on experience with Azure Synapse Analytics and Databricks for data modeling transformation and integration.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with cloud-based data warehousing solutions.
• Demonstrated experience aligning BI solutions with data governance security and quality standards.
• Experience collaborating with data engineering governance and business teams in a cross-functional environment.
• Strong and proven experience with CI/CD for Power BI and data models.
• Strong and proven familiarity with data cataloging and lineage tools (e.g. data cataloging software).
• Strong and proven experience with SQL Python DAX advanced data transformation.
• Strong and proven knowledge of security models (e.g. row-level security) in Power BI and Azure.

Key Skills

Business Intelligence, Cognos, SQL, Power BI, QlikView, Microsoft SQL Server, SSRS, Tableau, SSIS, T-SQL, Data Modeling, Data Warehouse

Employment Type

Contract

Experience

years

Vacancy

1

Hourly Salary: 60 - 85