Walk-in || Senior Power BI Developer- Immediate Joiner- Blackstraw.ai- Chennai

Job Summary:

The ideal candidate will be responsible for working cross-functionally to understand architecture needs by multiple business units. To be effective in this position, you must feel comfortable owning the entire architecture development process from inception to completion.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing and understanding business requirements for data analysis and reporting.
• Designing, developing and maintaining business intelligence solutions.
• Designing data models and schemas for optimal reporting performance.
• Transforming, cleaning, and preparing data for use in Power BI.
• Integrating data from various sources, such as databases, APIs, and files.
• Managing data refresh schedules and ensuring data accuracy and consistency.
• Setting up role-based security and managing user access to reports and dashboards, and implementing data-level security to restrict access to sensitive data.
• Identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in reports and data models.
• Tuning queries and optimizing data loading processes.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including data engineers and analysts.
• Managing projects involving Power BI development, including planning, tracking progress, and meeting deadlines.
• Documenting data sources, models, and report specifications.
• Diagnosing and resolving issues with Power BI reports and dashboards.
• Providing technical support to end users and addressing their queries.
• Staying informed about industry trends and evolving Power BI capabilities.
• Design and develop efficient and optimized data models (star, snowflake, galaxy schema) for Power BI solutions.

DAX Expertise & Other:

• Write and optimize complex DAX calculations
• Build dynamic, reusable measures and calculated columns for advanced reporting scenarios.
• Manage and optimize large datasets, ensuring performance and efficiency in reports and dashboards
• Implement custom conditional formatting using DAX and Power BIs formatting tools to highlight key data points.
• Build and configure parameters, creating dynamic reports that adapt based on user inputs.
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks in data models and DAX queries.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field (e.g., Computer Science, Data Science, Business Analytics).
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in one or more of the following tools - Power Apps, MicroStrategy , Superset , Grafana , Tableau etc..
• Proficiency in Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service.
• Working experience on SQL Server for database management and data retrieval.
• Azure Data Services: Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake Storage, and other Azure data services for cloud-based data storage and processing.
• Proficiency in DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) for creating custom calculations.
• Experience with data source connectors, APIs, and data extraction.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams.
• Certifications in Power BI, such as the Microsoft Certified: Power BI certification, is a plus.

Key traits:

• Should have excellent communication skills.
• Should be self motivated and willing to work as part of a team.
• Should be able to collaborate and coordinate with onshore and offshore teams.
• Be a problem solver and be proactive to solve the challenges that come his way.