Data Engineer

FastTek Global; Michigan; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and Dental

Vision

PTO

Long Term Disability

Life Insurance

401(k) with match

Job summary

FastTek Global in Michigan is seeking an experienced Data Engineer with deep Power BI semantic modeling and Google Cloud BigQuery expertise to lead analytics initiatives.

You will design enterprise semantic models, optimize BigQuery SQL, and partner with stakeholders to deliver high-performance insights, while promoting governance, CI/CD for BI assets, and scalable data pipelines.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of BI experience focused on Power BI and enterprise reporting.
• Strong Power BI semantic modeling, DAX, and Power Query (M).
• Solid SQL skills with Google BigQuery optimization and data warehousing knowledge.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead analytics initiatives and set best practices for querying large BigQuery datasets.
• Build and optimize enterprise Power BI models, reports, and dashboards.
• Partner with stakeholders to deliver high-performance, actionable insights.
• Promote governance, security, CI/CD for BI assets, and documentation.

Skills

Power BI

BigQuery

SQL

Data modeling

DAX

M-query

ETL/ELT pipelines

Cloud computing

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Power BI

BigQuery

Dataflow

Airflow

Python

Job description

Data Engineer #1065869

Position Description

• We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer with strong expertise in Power BI semantic modeling and Google Cloud BigQuery.
• The ideal candidate has 10+ years of experience in data engineering and business intelligence, with a proven track record of building and optimizing enterprise-scale Power BI models, reports, and dashboards.
• In this role, you will lead analytics initiatives, establish best practices for querying and transforming large BigQuery datasets, and partner with business and technical stakeholders to deliver high-performance, actionable insights.
• Power BI Semantic Modeling Design and maintain enterprise semantic models using star and snowflake schemas. Select appropriate storage modes, including Import, DirectQuery, Dual, Direct Lake, and composite models.
• Develop reusable, well-documented DAX measures, calculation groups, M-query transformations, role-playing dimensions, incremental refresh, and aggregation tables.
• Promote certified shared datasets, thin reports, consistent business definitions, and model documentation standards. BigQuery and Data Engineering Develop and optimize complex BigQuery SQL, including CTEs, window functions, and large-scale joins.
• Apply best practices for partitioning, clustering, views, materialized views, query performance, and cost management. Partner with data engineers on ETL/ELT pipelines, curated data layers, and dimensional models.
• Build reporting-ready BigQuery tables or views, with heavy transformations performed upstream where appropriate. Implement data validation, reconciliation, and quality rules.
• Understand orchestration and pipeline concepts; experience with Dataflow, Cloud Composer/Airflow, or Python is a plus.
• Performance, Administration, and Governance Optimize reports and models using tools such as Performance Analyzer, DAX Studio, Tabular Editor, and VertiPaq Analyzer.
• Improve refresh performance through query folding, incremental refresh, and efficient partitioning.
• Manage Power BI Service workspaces, deployment pipelines, gateways, refresh schedules, and capacity.
• Implement row-level and object-level security and follow governance, access, and compliance standards.
• Support CI/CD and version control for BI assets, and monitor usage, refresh failures, and capacity. Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 10+ years of Business Intelligence experience, with a strong focus on Power BI and enterprise reporting. Advanced Power BI skills, including semantic modeling, DAX, Power Query (M), schema design, composite models, and paginated reports.
• Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience optimizing queries in Google BigQuery. Solid understanding of data engineering, data warehousing, ETL/ELT, dimensional modeling, and data pipelines.
• Experience with Power BI Service administration, security, gateways, publishing, and refresh optimization.
• Experience gathering business requirements, documenting reporting logic, and validating results with stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills; able to work independently and collaboratively in an agile environment.

Skills Required

• Business Intelligence

Skills Preferred

• Business Analysis

Experience Required

• Engineer 3 Exp: 7+ years Data Engineering work experience

Education Required

• Bachelor's Degree Hybrid Role 4 days a week onsite

Additional Information

• Business Engagement and Requirements Partner with business stakeholders and end users to understand reporting needs, pain points, and decisions the reports must support.
• Lead requirements workshops and review existing reports to identify gaps, manual processes, and opportunities to consolidate.
• Define and document KPIs, metrics, business rules, data sources, refresh expectations, and security requirements.
• Capture report logic, including data grain, filters, exclusions, defaults, hierarchies, drill paths, time intelligence, and treatment of null, negative, cancelled, or reversed records.
• Translate requirements into functional and technical specifications, mappings, and logical data models. Prioritize the backlog, agree on milestones and acceptance criteria, and lead UAT and reconciliation with source or legacy reports.
• Provide user training, documentation, and ongoing support.

Additional Info

At FastTek Global,

Our Purpose is

Our People and

Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are

helping people find their success stories. Also,

Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for

24 years!

FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is

100% consultant and

client focused.

We’ve differentiated ourselves by being

fast, flexible,

creative and

honest. Throw out everything you’ve heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019,2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023!

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