Power BI Developer - Hybrid Working

Our client, a national automotive company, are currently looking to hire a Power BI Developer to join the team on a contract basis. This role would be hybrid working, with the client site based in Basingstoke.

The aim of this role is to deliver robust and sustainable Power BI solutions to stakeholders across the business, with a strong focus on delivering tools which directly support business teams to meet their commercial and operational objectives.

In this role you will work as part of a team to design, develop, roll out and support Power BI solutions for a range of different business stakeholders. You will maintain the Power BI semantic models and reports, ensuring they remain fit for purpose and they continue to perform as expected.

Responsibilities:

• Liaise with stakeholders to respond to data queries, troubleshoot issues, and gather user requirements that support future BI solutions.
• Design and develop those future BI solutions (Power BI semantic models and reports), ensuring they are developed in a way that maximises the value they bring to the business.
• Provide story point estimates for development work within part of sprint planning activities.
• Define clear documentation of final solutions to allow for output portability.
• Proactively look for opportunities where Power BI could be used to replace or enhance existing inadequate reporting.
• Develop and enhance robust BI processes including development, peer review, testing, and release.
• Support the UX design of new reports and templating to provide a visually strong appearance for stakeholders
• Provide best-practise advice for the adoption and development of Power BI artefacts in line with data strategy and processes.
• Work with the wider Data team and business stakeholders to ensure data is defined, structured and accessible in a way that supports the self-serve of Power BI reports and Semantic Models.
• Identify and effectively escalate risks and issues with systems and data requirements.

Knowledge and Experience:

• 4 years’ experience in building and maintaining reliable and scalable Power BI reporting, dashboards and semantic layers including all aspects of the development lifecycle (build, test, release etc)
• Strong knowledge of Power BI, particularly with the building of semantic models using large data volumes. Knowledge and experience of Power BI Report Builder is beneficial.
• A strong proficiency with SQL
• A keen understanding of data models and data warehouse concepts. Application of these with Databricks and Microsoft Azure is preferred, although experience with equivalent technologies will be taken in to consideration.
• Experience with modern user experience techniques, including audiences, personas, user stories and user interface design.
• Able to grasp a situation, structure the challenge and enjoy wrestling with a problem and generating insight.
• Able to communicate and present ideas well to a variety of colleagues and clients
• Enthused by the prospect of common ambition and shared success. A deep desire to achieving a fast, high quality and effective outcome.
• A strong record and experience of engaging and collaborating with stakeholders and suppliers within a complex enterprise organisation to produce business value

Please apply!

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