Lead Power BI Developer Lead BI Engineer

Santa Clara County, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 4 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Role: Lead Power BI Developer / Lead BI Engineer
Location: Santa Clara CA-Onsite
Type: Full time
Required experience: 12 years

Overview
Job Summary
We are looking for a Lead Power BI Developer who will own the BI reporting and analytics platform drive design standards and lead a team of BI developers and analysts. You will work closely with business stakeholders and data engineering teams to deliver scalable high-performance BI solutions that enable data-driven decision-making.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the design development and delivery of Power BI dashboards and reports
Own BI architecture data modeling standards and reporting best practices
Review and guide team on DAX Power Query and data modeling approaches
Partner with business stakeholders to gather requirements and define KPIs
Work closely with Data Engineering on data pipelines data quality and data models
Ensure performance optimization of reports datasets and semantic models
Define and enforce governance security (RLS) and deployment standards in Power BI
Mentor and manage Power BI developers and analysts
Drive adoption of Power BI across the organization and improve self-service BI
Oversee release management UAT support and production support
Document architecture standards and BI solutions

Required Skills & Experience:
8 years in BI / Analytics with 4 years of hands-on Power BI experience
Deep expertise in:
Power BI (Desktop Service Gateways Workspaces)
DAX Power Query (M)
Data modeling (star/snowflake schemas semantic models)
Strong SQL skills (SQL Server / Azure SQL / similar)
Strong understanding of data warehousing ETL/ELT and analytics architecture
Experience leading BI teams or acting as a technical lead
Experience working with senior stakeholders and translating business needs into BI solutions
Experience with performance tuning and large-scale Power BI deployments
Knowledge of security governance and best practices in Power BI

Nice to Have:
Experience with Microsoft Fabric Azure Synapse or Databricks
Experience with CI/CD for Power BI and semantic models
Exposure to Python or other scripting for data preparation
Experience in enterprise BI environments
What Youll Bring:
Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills
Ability to think in terms of architecture not just reports
High standards for quality performance and usability
Coaching mindset to grow the BI team