Senior Power BI Developer

Strategic Staffing Solutions, Inc.; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 76,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Staffing Solutions, Inc. seeks a Senior Power BI Developer to lead BI design, development, and automation, focusing on Power BI as the primary reporting platform.

The role supports enterprise analytics, data modeling, and scalable data assets across sources. Responsibilities include building dashboards, optimizing data pipelines, and integrating data via APIs within a hybrid, contract-friendly environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of analytics or BI development experience.
• 4+ years of hands-on Power BI and Tableau experience.
• 4+ years of complex data analysis experience.
• 4+ years of ETL and data integration experience.
• 2+ years of GitHub experience.
• 2+ years of API integration experience.
• 2+ years of Microsoft SQL experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and automation of end-to-end BI solutions with Power BI as the primary platform.
• Develop scalable Power BI reports, dashboards, semantic models, and reusable data assets.
• Automate reporting lifecycle including data acquisition, cleansing, transformation, validation, and testing.
• Build and support automated ETL pipelines for Power BI models, reports, and dashboards.
• Translate large datasets into actionable business insights through complex data analysis.
• Integrate data from enterprise sources using scalable ingestion patterns.
• Connect data via APIs and enterprise integration methods for reporting needs.
• Design and optimize Power BI data and semantic models for performance and usability.
• Implement data quality, lineage, security, and governance across solutions.
• Support AI-driven analytics and NLQ experiences through model optimization.
• Enable self-service analytics via scalable reporting and reusable assets.
• Troubleshoot reports, models, refreshes, and integrations.
• Develop reporting/analytics with Power BI and Tableau.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve reliability.
• Operate within an Agile/Scrum environment.

Skills

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

GitHub

API integration

Python

ETL

Data modeling

DAX

Power Query

Agile/Scrum

Tools

Power BI Desktop

Microsoft SQL Server

Job description

Job Title

Senior Power BI Developer

Location

Charlotte, NC or Irving, TX

Duration

12 Months

Pay Rate: $55/HR (W2 Only)

Job/Role Description

• Lead the design, development, and automation of end-to-end business intelligence and analytics solutions, with Power BI serving as the primary reporting platform.
• Develop scalable Power BI reports, dashboards, semantic models, and reusable data assets supporting enterprise reporting and analytics.
• Automate and optimize the reporting lifecycle, including data acquisition, cleansing, transformation, validation, testing, refreshes, monitoring, error handling, and data quality controls.
• Design, build, test, and support automated ETL pipelines supporting Power BI semantic models, reports, and dashboards.
• Perform complex data analysis and translate large, complex datasets into actionable business insights.
• Integrate and transform data from enterprise data sources using reusable and scalable ingestion patterns.
• Integrate data through APIs and other enterprise integration methods to support reporting and analytics solutions.
• Design and optimize Power BI data models and semantic models for performance, scalability, and usability.
• Implement data quality, lineage, security, and governance controls across reporting solutions.
• Optimize semantic models, metadata, and business definitions to support AI-driven analytics and natural language query experiences.
• Enable self-service analytics through scalable reporting solutions and reusable data assets.
• Troubleshoot Power BI reports, data models, refreshes, integrations, and other reporting issues.
• Develop and support reporting and analytics solutions using Power BI and Tableau.
• Work with Microsoft SQL and enterprise databases to support data aggregation, transformation, and reporting requirements.
• Use GitHub for source control and collaboration throughout the development lifecycle.
• Partner with business and technical stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into scalable reporting and analytics solutions.
• Work independently to identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve the efficiency and reliability of existing Power BI solutions.
• Work within an Agile/Scrum development environment.
• This position follows a hybrid schedule with 3 days onsite and 2 days remote.
• This is a contract position with the possibility of conversion to a permanent role for the right candidate.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of analytics or business intelligence development experience.
• 4+ years of hands-on Power BI and Tableau experience.
• Advanced Power BI experience, including report and dashboard development, data modeling, DAX, Power Query, semantic models, and troubleshooting.
• 4+ years of experience performing complex data analysis.
• 4+ years of ETL and data integration experience.
• 2+ years of experience automating reporting, data processing, testing, refreshes, monitoring, or other analytics processes.
• 2+ years of data modeling experience.
• 2+ years of GitHub experience.
• 2+ years of API integration experience.
• 2+ years of Microsoft SQL experience.
• Experience with data validation, data quality, cleansing, transformation, and troubleshooting.
• Experience designing scalable and reusable reporting and analytics solutions.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end data and reporting lifecycle.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and business stakeholders.
• Ability to independently manage complex development initiatives and drive solutions through completion.
• Experience working within large enterprise environments strongly preferred.
• Banking or financial services experience preferred.
• Python experience is a plus, particularly for data and process automation.