Onsite Power BI Developer

Austin Community College; Newport News (VA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A defense contractor in Newport News, VA is seeking an Onsite Power BI Developer for a Department of Defense project. The role involves building a data analytics environment using Microsoft's Power Platform and requires a BS degree and 5+ years of IT experience. Candidates must be U.S. citizens. This role offers a chance to work on advanced data analytics and visualization in a complex environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of IT experience including development of large-scale data architectures.
• Knowledge of Data Science and Data Analytics concepts.
• Experience in creation of data models.

Responsibilities

• Participate in all aspects of the application lifecycle.
• Produce cloud-based PaaS data architecture and environment.
• Produce data models based on business requirements.
• Lead efforts to design, implement and support enterprise scale data analytics.

Skills

Data Science

Data Analytics

Data Architecture

Data Modeling

Education

BS degree in Data Science, Computer Science or related field

Job description

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Thompson Gray, Inc. is seeking an OnsitePower BI Developer for a Department of Defense (DoD) project office integrating resource management data and systems (finance, acquisition, manpower) at Fort Eustis in Newport News, VA.

Job Description

The Onsite Power BI Developer is required in-office at Fort Eustis, VA three days per week (Tu, Wed, Thu). The Onsite PBI Dev is responsible for collaborating with business analysts and IT specialists to build a data analytics environment using Microsoft’s Power Platform and Azure cloud tools. The PBI Dev will architect, build and support an environment populated by 50+ data sources, 300+ data tables and 10,000+ data points across 7-8 different lines of business (budgeting/financial, contracts/acquisition, manpower/human resources, etc.). New projects require all phase of requirements gathering and documentation, establishing data connections to new source data (PBI Connectors, APIs, Azure SQL, spreadsheets, etc.), data cleansing and normalization, data modeling and data architecture into a unified, cross-domain, integrated environment. Later phases include building advanced data analytics and dashboards from the normalized data using Power BI. The Data Scientist will work closely with our technical and functional staff and the client user community to establish detailed requirements for data management and visualization.

All potential candidates must be U.S. citizens, with no exceptions.

Responsibilities

• Participate in all aspects of the application lifecycle: requirements analysis and definition, data design, data architecture and integration as well as data visualization and advanced analytics
• Produce and support a Microsoft tools cloud-based PaaS data architecture and environment
• Produce data models based on business requirements (star schemas, snowflake schemas, UML diagrams, relational database design, etc.) per the Kimball Group’s Dimensional Modeling Techniques, standards of 3NF (third normal form), etc.
• Produce a data analytics platform for data reporting and visualization across multiple integrated lines of business with dynamic and flexible ad-hoc reporting, historical trending, predictive analytics, and others
• Analyze large, complex systems and data to identify semantic gaps, performance bottlenecks, and data errors as well as uncover opportunities to improve efficiency
• Demonstrated ability to derive hierarchical relationships from undocumented, flat data
• Lead efforts to design, implement, and support enterprise scale data analytics

Required Skills

• BS degree in Data Science, Computer Science or related field/equivalent experience
• 5+ years of IT experience including experience in development of large-scale, complex data architectures
• Knowledge of Data Science and Data Analytics concepts and tools
• Knowledge of Data Management and Data Architecture concepts
• Experience in creation of data models

Desired Skills

• Experience with DoD and knowledge of DoD standards
• Demonstrated experience translating business and technical requirements into comprehensive data strategies and analytic solutions
• Demonstrated ability to adequately plan and meet delivery objectives and maintain adequate service levels in a highly dynamic, complex environments

U.S. Citizenship is required. A current DoD security clearance of SECRET or above is highly desired.