Anson McCade
Power BI Developer
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Role Title: Power BI Developer
Team: Risk Reporting
Main Purpose:
To design, develop, and support enterprise-scale Power BI semantic models, dashboards, and reporting solutions, with a particular focus on semantic model architecture, automated refresh processes, partitioning, governance, and performance optimization.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop enterprise-grade Power BI reports, dashboards, and scorecards.
- Build and maintain semantic models using dimensional modelling best practices.
- Develop advanced DAX calculations, calculation groups, and optimization techniques.
- Implement Incremental Refresh and semantic model partitioning strategies.
- Manage large-scale datasets and optimize refresh and query performance.
- Develop and support Python-based processes used to trigger semantic model refreshes and processing.
- Integrate Power BI with orchestration and scheduling frameworks.
- Implement Row-Level Security (RLS), governance controls, and access management.
- Support Power BI Premium/Fabric capacity management.
- Troubleshoot refresh failures, gateway issues, and performance bottlenecks.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for Power BI assets.
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Skills and Experience
Essential
- Expert Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service experience.
- Extensive experience developing enterprise semantic models.
- Advanced DAX, semantic modelling, and performance tuning skills.
- Strong understanding of VertiPaq, composite models, aggregations, and query optimization.
- Hands-on experience implementing Incremental Refresh and dataset partitioning.
- Experience using XMLA endpoints, Tabular Editor, and DAX Studio.
- Strong SQL expertise and dimensional modelling knowledge.
- Experience with large-scale analytical platforms.
- Strong Python scripting experience supporting automated semantic model refresh processes.
- Experience with PowerShell, Power BI REST APIs, and administration.
- Experience implementing DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of Power BI Premium and/or Microsoft Fabric.
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Preferred
- Risk Reporting or Financial Services experience.
- Familiarity with Snowflake data consumption from Power BI.
- Experience with Control-M or enterprise scheduling platforms.
- Exposure to Azure Data Platform technologies and dbt.
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