Front-End/BI Data Engineer - 174511

ZP Group; Norfolk (VA); On-site; AUD 165,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Front-End/BI Data Engineer to support the US Navy enterprise tools. This on-site role is located in Norfolk, VA, and will focus on Power BI, reporting, visualization, and the data-consumption layer while collaborating with backend data engineers.

You will turn transformed and aggregated datasets into usable business intelligence, dashboards, reports, and enterprise-facing data products, ensuring data pipelines, sources, and transformations align with

Qualifications

• Experience turning data into dashboards and reports.
• Strong SQL and data modeling skills.
• Familiarity with enterprise data sources and data governance.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports, and enterprise reporting solutions.
• Translate business and technical requirements into meaningful data visualizations and reporting products.
• Work with transformed and aggregated enterprise datasets to develop reporting solutions.
• Partner with backend data engineers to ensure data is available, structured, and optimized for reporting.
• Understand underlying data pipelines, sources, transformations, and repositories supporting reporting.
• Develop SQL queries and work directly with SQL databases to prepare data for reporting.
• Identify data quality issues and gaps impacting reporting accuracy.
• Work with legacy, disparate, and enterprise systems feeding downstream reporting.
• Support data ingestion and transformation activities, including Azure Data Factory (ADF).
• Develop dashboards and reports that are accessible and actionable for technical and business stakeholders.
• Optimize Power BI reports, data models, queries, and visualizations for enterprise use.
• Collaborate with backend engineers on data requirements and reporting architecture.

Skills

SQL

Data visualization

Data pipelines

Tools

Power BI

Azure Data Factory

SQL databases

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Front-End/BI Data Engineer to support the USN. This role is 100% onsite and is open to candidates in Norfolk, VA. The Front-End/BI Data Engineer will join a small team that supports and manages government tools connected to the Navy's enterprise network. As the team's mission continues to expand into enterprise data, this engineer will help turn transformed and aggregated datasets into usable business intelligence, dashboards, reports, and enterprise-facing data products. This position is primarily focused on the Power BI, reporting, visualization, and data-consumption layer, while still requiring enough hands‑on data engineering knowledge to understand where data comes from, how it is transformed, and how reporting requirements affect the underlying data pipeline.

Responsibilities of the Front-End/BI Data Engineer:

• Design, develop, and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports, and enterprise reporting solutions
• Translate business and technical requirements into meaningful data visualizations and reporting products
• Work with transformed and aggregated enterprise datasets to develop reporting solutions
• Partner with backend data engineers to ensure the appropriate data is available, structured, and optimized for reporting
• Understand the underlying data pipelines, sources, transformations, staging processes, and repositories that support reporting
• Develop SQL queries and work directly with SQL databases to investigate, validate, and prepare data for reporting
• Help identify data quality issues, inconsistencies, and gaps that impact reporting accuracy
• Work with data from legacy, disparate, and enterprise systems and understand how those systems feed downstream reporting
• Support data ingestion and transformation activities when necessary, including working with Azure Data Factory (ADF)
• Develop dashboards and reports that make complex enterprise data accessible and actionable to technical and business stakeholders
• Optimize Power BI reports, data models, queries, and visualizations for enterprise use
• Collaborate with backend data engineering resources on data requirements, pipeline dependencies, and reporting architecture
• Document reporting solutions, data sources