Power BI Lead Developer

Software People, Inc.; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Software People, Inc. in Austin, Texas, is seeking a Power BI Developer to architect and deliver robust BI solutions that enable insight and informed decision-making.

You will build complex data models and interactive dashboards and reports for business and technical stakeholders. You will work within a cross-functional team across the full SDLC, ensure data accuracy, security, and maintainability, and contribute to design decisions, testing, deployment, and documentation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years hands-on Power BI experience with data modeling and reporting.
• Ability to design complex semantic models and implement DAX calculations.
• Experience delivering Power BI dashboards and data models across teams.
• Experience with SDLC phases, data validation, and release processes.
• Familiarity with SAS, Jira, SAP, and Tableau is preferred.
• Knowledge of data governance, security, and data integration best practices.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver BI solutions for robust reporting and dashboards.
• Build complex dimensional data models and interactive visuals.
• Collaborate with analysts, developers, and QA across the SDLC.
• Validate data accuracy, establish data models, and ensure data security.
• Assist with deployment, documentation, and production support.

Skills

Data modeling

Power BI dashboards

DAX calculations

SDLC experience

Data validation

Source control

Education data sets

Data pipelines

Documentation

SAS

Jira

Tableau

SAP

Tools

SAS

Jira

SAP

Tableau

Job description

Phone/Skype Hire. Up to 90% Remote

Location: Austin, Texas / Remote

Duration: 6+ months

Need 3-page resumes. Must have current LinkedIn profile. Please complete the enclosed documentation in its entirety and always get RTR physically signed.

Responsibilities

The Power BI Developer is responsible for architecting and delivering robust business intelligence, reporting, and data visualization solutions that enable agency-wide insight and informed decision-making. This role builds complex dimensional data models, develops interactive dashboards and reports, and transforms data into clear, compelling, and actionable visual narratives for business and technical stakeholders.

The developer works as an integral member of a cross-functional software delivery team and participates throughout the software development life cycle, including discovery, requirements analysis, solution design, development, testing, deployment, documentation, maintenance, and continuous improvement. Power BI reports and dashboards are treated as components of broader software, data, and business-process solutions rather than as standalone deliverables.

The developer collaborates closely with business analysts, application developers, data professionals, architects, quality assurance staff, project leadership, and business stakeholders to define requirements and deliver scalable reporting solutions. Responsibilities include evaluating data sources and dependencies, contributing to technical design decisions, establishing appropriate data models, validating data accuracy, supporting user acceptance testing, and coordinating changes across reporting, application, database, and integration components.

This role is expected to produce solutions that are secure, accessible, maintainable, testable, reusable, and supportable in production. The developer follows established team standards for source control, peer review, release management, documentation, defect resolution, and change management.

The position also contributes to troubleshooting and resolving issues across the reporting solution, including problems involving data quality, data transformation, semantic models, application workflows, performance, security, or deployment. This position requires at least eight years of hands-on Power BI experience and the ability to independently perform a broad range of highly complex technical work. The ideal candidate applies sound technical judgment, plans and executes work with minimal oversight, communicates risks and dependencies, and brings a high level of creativity, initiative, and problem-solving ability to each engagement.

The developer must be able to work effectively in an iterative, team-based software development environment, participate constructively in planning and technical discussions, estimate and communicate work status, respond to changing priorities, and take shared ownership of overall solution quality. This role may lead projects, coordinate reporting workstreams, conduct technical reviews, establish development standards, or provide guidance and mentoring to other team members as needed.

Skills Needed

• 8 Required Hands-on experience transforming complex datasets into performant data models.
• 8 Required Designing and delivering advanced Power BI solutions, including complex semantic models and DAX calculations.
• 8 Required Experience developing Power BI dashboards, reports, and data models.
• 4 Required Power BI workspace management, gateway configuration, scheduled refreshes and data security
• 4 Required Experience participating in multiple phases of the SDLC, including requirements, design, development and testing
• 4 Required Experience performing data validation, reconciliation, defect analysis, and troubleshooting
• 2 Required Experience using source control and structured deployment or release processes for Power BI
• 2 Required Previous experience working directly with special education and public education information data sets
• 2 Required Experience designing and supporting Power BI solutions that integrate with broader applications and data pipelines
• 2 Required Experience documenting technical designs, data mappings, business rules, and calculations
• 4 Preferred Prior experience in data-related tasks is preferred
• 1 Preferred Previous experience with SAS and its dataset (.sas7bdat) is preferred
• 1 Preferred Previous experience with Jira is preferred
• 1 Preferred Previous experience with BI tools ( SAP, Tableau) is preferred