Full Time
200,000
40
Nov 22, 2025
Senior Power BI Developer (Remote – Must Work Canadian Time Zone)
Contract / Full-Time
We are looking for an experienced Senior Power BI Developer to join our data & analytics team. The ideal candidate is highly skilled in Power BI development, administration, gateway management, modern data engineering practices, and has strong communication skills for engaging business stakeholders.
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Key Responsibilities
Power BI Development & Modeling
• Build high-quality Power BI reports, dashboards, and paginated reports.
• Design and optimize semantic models following best practices:
• Star schema, proper relationships
• Measures over columns
• Incremental refresh
• Dataflows and Lakehouse integration
• Performance optimization (vertipaq, partitions, compression)
• Manage complex DAX calculations and optimized data modeling.
Gateway & Admin Expertise
• Administer and maintain on-premise data gateways:
• Troubleshooting refresh failures
• Monitoring logs and performance
• Gateway cluster configuration
• Credential setup, service accounts, ODBC/ODBC drivers
• Assist with Power BI tenant administration:
• Workspace governance
• Security groups (RLS/OLS)
• Usage monitoring and auditing
• Capacity and workspace management (Premium/Fabric)
Data Engineering & Integration
• Work with Azure Databricks, Delta tables, Lakehouse, and Spark pipelines.
• Integrate ADFS / SSO authentication flows where needed.
• Build scalable ETL/ELT processes and reusable data models.
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Stakeholder Engagement
• Lead requirement-gathering sessions with business users.
• Translate business needs into technical specifications and data models.
• Provide UX/UI best-practice guidance for dashboard design.
• Conduct user training, adoption strategies, and documentation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Data Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, Product).
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Required Skills & Experience
• 5+ years of Power BI development experience.
• Strong knowledge of gateway servers, admin tasks, and troubleshooting.
• Deep experience with Power BI Service, workspaces, security, and governance.
• Solid understanding of Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, Spark SQL.
• Experience with ADFS, SSO, Azure AD security concepts.
• Excellent understanding of semantic model best practices.
• Strong UI/UX design sense for professional dashboards.
• Comfortable working with stakeholders, gathering requirements, and leading demos.
• Must be willing to work Canadian (MT/CT/ET) time zone.
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Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in Fabric (Lakehouse, Warehouse, Pipelines).
• Knowledge of Azure Data Factory, SQL Server, or Synapse.
• Experience in enterprise data governance.
• Strong understanding of data security and compliance.