Sr. Business Intelligence Developer

University of Minnesota Physicians; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 98,336 - 147,494; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (including vision & dental)

401(K)

Parking & tuition assistance

Job summary

The University of Minnesota Physicians is seeking a Senior Power BI Developer in Minneapolis. This role focuses on designing and implementing enterprise BI solutions using Power BI and SQL Server, requiring strong analytical skills and collaboration with stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Power BI with a degree in a relevant field, offering a comprehensive compensation package including health benefits and a 401(K). A hybrid work schedule is in place, favoring MN residents.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of overall Business Intelligence experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience delivering solutions using Microsoft Power BI.
• Strong understanding of data warehousing and SQL for data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead collaboration with users to define and prioritize analytical requirements.
• Design visually compelling Power BI solutions with intuitive navigation.
• Troubleshoot model issues using tools like DAX Studio and SQL query tuning.

Skills

Power BI

SQL

Data modeling

Business Intelligence

DAX

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Business Analytics, Statistics, or Information Systems

Tools

Power BI Desktop

SQL Server

Azure Data Factory

Job description

Overview

Why M Physicians? This role leads the design, development, and optimization of enterprise BI solutions, partnering closely with business and technical stakeholders to define metrics, shape analytical requirements, and deliver trusted insights. The Senior Power BI Developer builds scalable semantic models, implements governance and performance best practices, and transforms complex data into actionable insights that drive strategic decision‑making across the organization using Power BI, SQL Server, and the Azure data platform.

Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate collaboration with business users, analysts, and technical partners to define, refine, and prioritize analytical requirements, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Perform advanced analysis of source and curated data to identify data quality issues, integration risks, and modeling opportunities; proactively communicate insights and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Design and develop visually compelling, actionable Power BI solutions, including reports and dashboards with intuitive navigation and drill‑through capabilities.
• Build reusable report templates, standardized layouts, and JSON theme files to improve consistency and accelerate delivery.
• Design and maintain semantic models that align with best practices for performance, scalability, security, and effective modeling techniques.
• Diagnose slow reports, visual bottlenecks, and refresh performance issues.
• Troubleshoot data model issues related to relationships, ambiguity, row context/filter context, and refresh failures using tools such as DAX Studio, Tabular Editor, Performance Analyzer, and SQL query tuning techniques.
• Support workspace governance, deployment pipelines, security models, and release management.
• Monitor Power BI model refresh orchestration framework within Azure Data Factory.
• Lead Power BI platform administration, including gateway configuration and upgrades, data source management, capacity monitoring, and performance optimization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Business Analytics, Statistics, or Information Systems.
• 8–12 years of overall Business Intelligence and analytics development experience, with 5+ years of deep, hands‑on experience delivering enterprise solutions using Microsoft Power BI.
• Strong dimensional modeling and semantic layer design expertise.
• Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts, dimensional modeling, relational databases and writing SQL queries for complex data analysis.
• Extensive experience with Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service, including advanced DAX, data modeling, performance tuning, security implementation, and change tracking.
• Expertise in report tuning, model compression, cardinality management, star schema optimization.
• Proficiency in Row‑Level Security, Object‑Level Security, data sensitivity, UI/UX design principles.
• Deep understanding of Power BI Service administration, refresh architecture, gateways, and licensing/capacity models.
• Proven ability to manage and deliver multiple, complex BI initiatives on time.
• Strong skills in Power BI, SQL, Excel, data modeling, and data warehousing.

Location

This position is a hybrid working schedule. We are only considering MN residents at this time.

Benefits

Competitive wages, Healthcare (including vision & dental), 401(K), parking & tuition assistance and more.

Compensation

98,336.00 – 147,494.00 USD Annual. Compensation is based on experience, skills, qualifications, and other role-specific considerations.

Equal Opportunity Employment

University of Minnesota Physicians (M Physicians) is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.