Power BI​/Analytics Engineering Lead

DecisionPoint seeks a Power BI/Analytics Engineering Lead to provide SME-level technical leadership for shared semantic models, DAX measures, reporting standards, performance, access design, and controlled BI deployment supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program.

This position will guide the design, development, validation, and delivery of consistent analytical models, dashboards, reports, and self-service reporting capabilities. The lead will use Power BI Desktop, Power Query, SQL, approved hosting configurations, gateways, and appropriate query and refresh patterns to support reliable mission reporting.

The Power BI/Analytics Engineering Lead will collaborate with Government stakeholders, business analysts, data engineers, database personnel, governance specialists, cybersecurity teams, and testers to ensure reporting products use consistent definitions, provide appropriate access, and deliver accurate, understandable results.

This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred.

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

The Power BI/Analytics Engineering Lead will:

• Own the technical design and maintenance of shared semantic models supporting enterprise analytics and reporting.

• Develop and govern reusable DAX measures, calculation logic, relationships, and common analytical definitions.

• Establish reporting standards for model design, visual presentation, naming, documentation, testing, and deployment.

• Lead development of dashboards, reports, analytical products, and governed self-service reporting capabilities.

• Use Power BI Desktop, Power Query, and SQL to prepare data and implement approved reporting requirements.

• Coordinate with mission owners and business analysts to define KPIs, business rules, calculations, and acceptance criteria.

• Select appropriate query and refresh patterns within approved hosting and security configurations.

• Configure and support approved gateway connectivity, data-source connections, refresh schedules, and operational dependencies.

• Monitor and improve semantic model, query, refresh, and report performance.

• Design and validate access controls, role assignments, and data visibility in coordination with Government and cybersecurity personnel.

• Maintain controlled development, testing, approval, deployment, and rollback processes for BI changes.

• Coordinate reconciliation and testing of measures, aggregations, filters, relationships, security behavior, and reporting outputs.

• Work with data engineers and database teams to resolve source-data, transformation, schema, and performance issues.

• Maintain traceability between reporting requirements, source data, model logic, test evidence, and released products.

• Review technical designs and provide guidance to BI developers and analysts.

• Maintain model documentation, measure definitions, data mappings, deployment instructions, and operational runbooks.

• Support release-readiness reviews, user acceptance testing, operational handoffs, and knowledge transfer.

• Communicate technical risks, data limitations, performance findings, dependencies, and improvement recommendations to Government stakeholders and program leadership.

Required Qualifications

The following must-have qualifications are drawn from the supplied position requirements:

• Active Secret clearance or higher.

• Minimum of 12 years of relevant professional experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, data analytics, or a related field, or a permitted equivalent.

• Experience with Power BI Desktop, Power Query, and SQL.

• Experience developing and maintaining shared semantic models and DAX measures.

• Ability to…