Senior Power BI Developer

University of Colorado Anschutz

Department:
School of Medicine, Office of the Dean, IT Shared Services

Job Title:
Senior Power BI Developer

Position #:  – Requisition #: 41372

The Senior Business Intelligence Developer independently designs and owns complex, high-visibility BI reports and solutions, and the semantic models that support them. The position leads technical discovery, designs governed semantic models, develops advanced DAX calculations and Power Query scripts, implements security and deployment processes, optimizes solution performance, and follows team standards for Power BI development. The role partners with stakeholders, project managers, data owners, analysts, and Data Engineers to deliver scalable analytical products.

The ideal candidate will have extensive reporting and semantic modeling experience, with enough knowledge of data engineering to effectively collaborate with data engineers.

• Design, develop, and support analytics solutions within cloud-based business intelligence and data platforms, including Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Architect cloud-native reporting and analytics solutions that align with enterprise architecture, security, governance, and performance standards.
• Leverage Microsoft Fabric, Power BI Service, Azure and Google Cloud services, and related cloud technologies to deliver enterprise reporting, self-service analytics, and data exploration capabilities.
• Support solution deployment through cloud-based environments and deployment pipelines.

• Design and optimize semantic models that support cloud-scale analytics workloads.
• Develop governed analytical assets that enable consistent reporting across cloud-based data platforms.
• Collaborate with Cloud and Data Engineers to align semantic model design with enterprise cloud architecture and data platform standards.

• Partner with Cloud and Data Engineers to integrate curated datasets from cloud data warehouses, lake houses, and enterprise data platforms across Azure, Google Cloud, and other supported environments.
• Contribute to the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of cloud-based analytics services and solutions.
• Evaluate cloud data architecture, connectivity methods, refresh strategies, and platform performance to ensure reliable business intelligence delivery.
• Monitor and optimize cloud resource utilization, semantic model performance, query efficiency, refresh operations, and capacity management.
• Contribute to cloud governance, security, deployment, monitoring, and operational best practices.
• Participate in cloud solution design reviews and recommend improvements to scalability, resiliency, and maintainability.
• Support enterprise adoption of modern cloud analytics capabilities and emerging technologies.

• Provide technical leadership and guidance on cloud analytics technologies, platform capabilities, governance, and architectural best practices.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for cloud-based business intelligence solutions and enterprise reporting platforms.
• Advise leadership on cloud analytics strategy, platform optimization, and sustainable support models.

This description is a summary of the general level of work and is not intended to be all-inclusive. Duties and responsibilities may evolve based on business need and the approved organizational design. We reserve the right to add or delete duties and responsibilities at the discretion of the supervisor and/or hiring authority.

Hybrid – this role is eligible for a hybrid schedule of three (3) days per week on campus and as needed for in‑person meetings.

The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is a world‑class medical destination at the forefront of transformative science, medicine, education, and patient care. The campus encompasses the University of Colorado health professional schools, more than 60 centers and institutes, and two nationally ranked independent hospitals - UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital and Children's Hospital Colorado - that treat more than two million adult and pediatric patients each year.

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