PowerBI Developer

The successful candidate will have strong hands-on Power BI development experience, advanced DAX capability, and a solid understanding of data modelling best practice, including star schema design.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Power BI reports, dashboards, and semantic models that support business decision-making.
• Develop robust and efficient DAX calculations, measures, and KPIs to meet reporting requirements.
• Use Power Query and M language to connect, transform, and shape data from multiple sources.
• Create and maintain well-structured data models using best practice design principles, including star schema.
• Optimise report performance and usability across Power BI Desktop, Service, and Premium environments.
• Support the use of Microsoft Fabric capabilities, including Direct Lake mode where appropriate.
• Implement and maintain row-level security and support secure access to reporting assets.
• Work closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, clarify reporting needs, and deliver clear, actionable insights.
• Promote best practice in reporting governance, documentation, and release management.
• Collaborate with data engineering and wider technical teams to ensure reporting solutions are aligned with source data architecture and platform standards.
• Provide support, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement for existing dashboards, reports, and analytics solutions.
• Stay up to date with developments across Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and the wider Microsoft data ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of Power BI development experience.
• Experience with Power BI Desktop, Service, Premium, and Microsoft Fabric.
• Advanced DAX capability – strong ability to create measures and calculations with an understanding of filter context and time intelligence.
• Experience building and maintaining data transformation processes with Power Query / M language and integrating data from multiple sources.
• Good understanding of dimensional modelling principles, including star schema design.
• Exposure to Microsoft Fabric and Direct Lake mode, with awareness of when to use different storage modes.
• Experience implementing row-level security (RLS) and managing access controls within Power BI.
• Ability to identify and resolve basic performance issues in reports and datasets.
• Certification PL-300 or DA-100 (preferred).
• DP-600 certification or progress toward it (preferred).
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills – able to gather requirements and translate business needs into effective BI solutions.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday, rising to 30 days with each year of service.
• Private medical insurance covering dental and optical.
• Company pension scheme.
• Life assurance – 4× annual salary.
• 1 day paid volunteering per year.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity offerings.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Access to a gym.