Sr Power BI Developer with Fabric

Title: Senior Power BI Developer with Fabric
Location: Remote
Term: 3-6 months Contract

Looking for a Power BI Developer with a strong background in financial environments to make an immediate impact. The role requires someone who can hit the ground running with no ramp-up period, focusing on d eveloping and maintaining financial reporting capabilities .

Overview:
The Senior BI Reporting Analyst's primary responsibility is to support, implement and maintain the visualization tools, techniques, standards, and methodologies to be used in enterprise development activities. This position is accountable and responsible for providing direction, guidance, and oversight to other developers on this team. This position is expected to show team and vendor leadership; work with little supervision; assist others in their area; and work with others to prepare accurate estimates of work. This position is expected to provide support in multiple projects of high scope and complexity. This role is highly cross-functional, and works closely with our internal Rental Operation, Direct Sales, IT, Marketing teams and external third-party vendors. The candidate must be able to work autonomously and have a solid understanding of process analysis, requirements gathering, systems design, Agile, DevOps and web-based solutions.

Responsibilities/Essential Functions:

• Analyze and understand end-user requirements to deliver data visualization solutions for managing enterprise data.
  • Design, build, test, implement, and support Data Visualization solutions that meet defined requirements.
  • Manage Data Visualization solutions through the entire development lifecycle including requirements gathering, analysis, development, performance tuning, deployment, and automation.
  • A willingness to learn and adapt to existing and future data visualization technologies.
  • Lead in development of best practices to operationalize the products and continually improve practices and processes.
  • Collaborate with client teams to communicate requirements, set deadlines, participate in testing, understand/resolve roadblocks and communicate effectively to impacted parties.
• Collaborate with data visualization team to develop architectural standards and rules for organizational needs and deliverables.
• Lead and champion the business power user program.
• Work with data engineering team to process and validate requirements for data transformation processes.
• Collaborate with IS team to develop an enterprise data visualization strategy.
• Track all hours worked and communicate status on a weekly basis.
• Create and update documentation.
• Perform special assignments and attend meetings as appointed to improve process efficiency and performance in job duties.
• Consistently seek improvement and excellence in job skills.
• Complete other duties and activities as assigned by manager.
• Supporting the goals of the company's technological alignment efforts
• Seeking out and implementing continuous process improvement opportunities
• Supporting internal communications related to business improvements and processes, system upgrades, and enhancements
• Build and sustain working relationships with all functional areas
• Overseeing appropriate vendor relationships related to associated technologies, services, and solutions needed to operate enterprise functions
• Ensuring accurate and efficient governance policy development and adherence
• Report on statuses when requested
• Submit all time and expense reporting procedures accurately and timely
• Maintain good standing and completion on all compliance related matters (i.e., assigned mandatory trainings, actions required from audits, corporate policies, etc.)
• Perform all additional duties and responsibilities based on the direction and guidance of supervisor

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Deep understanding of user experience (UX), design and customer service principles
• Excellent communicator can articulate the pros and cons of various technologies, platforms and architectural options
• Takes the initiative to do the right thing doesn't walk past a problem
• Motivator willing to push themselves and the team towards success
• Agile learner has passion and curiosity to learn new things and understand the "why
• Skilled and proficient in MS Office O365 Suite (i.e. Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, Teams, Communications Tools, etc.)
• Ability to operate with a customer-centric service approach
• Ability to establish performance-based relationships with 3rd party vendors and technology providers and versed in setting standards and measurements for IT processes
• Ability to effectively define a business case, determine return on investment, and measure achievement of the case over time
• Ability to manage and work on multiple concurrent deliverables at various stages of development and completion
• Strong collaboration and team-building skills with the ability to create consensus around decisions and mitigate conflicts among teams
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Professional level verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated attention to detail and quality of work products and communications
• Willingness to seek out and implement coaching, suggestions, and guidance from others

Experience/Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of working experience with Power BI
• Experience working directly and consulting with business clients to design a solution
• Experience with tools and concepts related to data and analytics, such as dimensional modeling, ETL, reporting tools, data governance, data warehousing, structured and unstructured data
• Experience with design and implementation of ETL/ELT/Streaming processes
• Database development experience using Oracle, SQL Server, Azure Synapse
• Ability to research, plan, organize, lead, and implement new processes or technology
• Experience creating dashboards using Power BI or other similar visualization tools (Looker, Tableau, MicroStrategy, R Shiny, QlickSense, Business Objects, etc)
• Experience with the use of Project Management methodologies and tools
• Bachelor and/or Master's degree preferred but not required