We are seeking a senior BI Developer based in India to help support and play a critical role in rebuilding and scaling our semantic models, existing and new dashboards, and reporting layer. This role will work hand-in-hand with our Senior Data Engineer (India based), and US based data leaders to redesign existing analytics into a more performant, maintainable, and scalable solution.
PBI Senior Developer – Skill Set & Responsibilities
- Semantic Model Analysis & Optimization
Lead the redesign and optimization of Power BI semantic models, including relationships, measures, calculation logic, and overall structure
- Identify performance bottlenecks and data modeling issues
- Reduce existing technical debt by simplifying models, improving star schema, optimizing DAX
- Partner with data engineers to shape curated, analytics-ready tables in Microsoft Fabric
- Ensure adherence to best practices (naming standards, reusable measures, clean modeling)
- Report Review & Enhancement
- Review existing reports and dashboards and provide recommendations for usability, clarity, and performance
- Redesign visuals and interactions (navigation, drill-through) for improved storytelling and business impact while aligning with updated models and standard
- Support migration from legacy reports to standardized PowerBI solutions
- New Report Development
- Design and develop new Power BI reports by translating business requirements into clear, intuitive, and performant visualizations
- Build scalable data models and advanced DAX measures to support reporting needs
- Technical Collaboration with Data Engineering
- Partner closely with US and India data engineers to validate data structures, transformations, and metric logic
- Use SQL and PySpark to understand and validate upstream data
- Provide feedback on data structures from a BI performance and usability perspective
- Performance, Reliability and Maintenance
- Optimize dataset refresh times and memory usage
- Support monitoring and triage of PowerBI refresh failures
- Troubleshoot DAX, model, and performance issues
- Support reliable daily, weekly, and monthly reporting operations
- Governance & Best Practices
- Help create established standards for DAX development, naming conventions, dataset structure, visualization templates
- Maintain documentation of semantic models, datasets, measures, and calculation logic
- Support QA testing and validation of changes prior to production release
- Assist in mentoring and developing junior BI developers / analysts on technical best practices and comfort with PowerBI
Qualifications
- 6–10+ years of experience in Business Intelligence / BI Development roles
- Expert-level Power BI skills, including semantic models, complex DAX, and dataset optimization
- Strong SQL skills and experience with structured data models
- Working knowledge of PySpark and Microsoft Fabric sufficient to collaborate with data engineers
- Experience refactoring and maintaining existing BI environments
- Strong attention to detail and quality
- Ability to work effectively within a globally distributed team
- Experience supporting ERP-driven analytics (Dynamics 365 preferred).
- Preferred experience in wholesale, retail, consumer goods, or supply-chain-heavy environments
- Familiarity with data governance, metric standardization, and analytics QA processes
