Power BI Lead

MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES LLC; Bolingbrook (IL); On-site; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES LLC is seeking a Power BI Lead to design robust BI solutions, model data, and build interactive dashboards. You will collaborate with stakeholders and data engineers to ensure data accuracy, security, and performance.

Responsibilities include data modeling, data integration from diverse sources, and maintaining reports with automated refreshes. This role emphasizes governance, optimization, and scalable BI delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and implementing Power BI solutions.
• Experience addressing performance issues on large-scale BI implementations.
• CI/CD and automated testing for Power BI reports.
• Monitoring and alerting for Power BI performance and operations.

Responsibilities

• Design BI solutions with stakeholders and tech teams to meet data requirements and BI objectives.
• Develop data models and data flows; implement transformations and calculations for insights.
• Create dashboards and reports in Power BI with accurate, clear visualizations.
• Collaborate with data engineers to extract data from databases, data warehouses, and APIs; ensure data security.
• Optimize Power BI solutions for performance and scalability; resolve bottlenecks and improve query performance.
• Implement data governance, access controls, data classification, and retention policies.
• Schedule and manage data refresh processes to keep reports up to date.
• Monitor BI solutions, perform maintenance, and apply updates/patches.

Skills

Power BI

Data Modeling

Data Warehousing

ETL

SQL

DAX

M

Power BI Service

CI/CD

Performance Tuning

Monitoring & Alerting

Security & Governance

Job description

Job Description

Job ID: J52929

Job Title: Power BI Lead

Location: Bolingbridge, IL

Duration: 12 Months + Extension

Hourly Rate: Depending on Experience (DOE)

Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, L2-EAD, GC-EAD

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Employment Type: W-2, 1099, C2C

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design: Collaborate with business stakeholders and technical teams to understand data requirements, define business intelligence objectives, and design Power BI solutions that align with the organization's goals and strategies.


• Data Modeling: Develop data models and data flows to support efficient and accurate data visualization. Design and implement data transformations, aggregations, calculation groups and calculations to create meaningful insights and metrics.


• Data Visualization: Create visually appealing and interactive dashboards, reports, and visualizations using Power BI. Ensure data accuracy and consistency throughout the visualizations and provide insights in a clear and understandable manner.


• Data Integration: Work closely with data engineers and developers to identify and extract data from various sources such as databases, data warehouses, and APIs. Transform and cleanse data as needed for effective analysis and reporting. Implement data security and access controls to ensure data confidentiality.


• Performance Optimization: Optimize Power BI solutions for improved performance and scalability. Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, enhance query performance, and implement caching mechanisms to optimize data retrieval.


• Security and Governance: Implement security measures and data governance policies to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data. Define and enforce data access controls, data classification, and data retention policies in line with organizational standards and compliance requirements.


• Data Refresh and Automation: Schedule and manage data refresh processes to ensure the availability of up-to-date information in Power BI reports and dashboards.


• Monitoring and Maintenance: Monitor Power BI solutions for data accuracy, performance issues, and system health. Proactively identify and resolve issues, perform regular maintenance tasks, and apply necessary updates and patches to keep the system up to date.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Power BI Developer with expertise in designing and implementing Power BI solutions.


• Experienced in resolving performance issues on large scale BI implementation on big data platforms.


• Experienced in CI/CD and setting up automated testing of Power BI reports


• Experienced in setting up monitoring and alerting for performance and operational issues with Power BI reports and environment.


• Strong knowledge of data modeling, data warehousing, business intelligence concepts


• Proficiency in Power BI Desktop, Power Query, DAX, M, Power BI Service


• Experience with data integration, ETL processes


• Familiarity with SQL and relational databases


• Solid understanding of data visualization principles and best practices.


• Experience with data warehousing concepts and technologies.


• Knowledge of cloud platforms GCP and their integration with Power BI is a plus.


• Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Data Analyst Associate or Microsoft Certified: Power BI Certified is preferred.

Equal Opportunity Employer

MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES LLC is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of female, minority, disability and veterans, (M/F/D/V). Hiring, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination and all other employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, citizenship/immigration status, veteran status or any other protected status. MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES LLC will not make any posting or employment decision that does not comply with applicable laws relating to labor and employment, equal opportunity, employment eligibility requirements or related matters. Nor will MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES LLC require in a posting or otherwise U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency in the U.S. as a condition of employment except as necessary to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or federal, state, or local government contract.