Senior Power BI Developer

AFL manufactures industry-leading fiber optic cable, connectivity and accessories and provides engineering and installation services for some of the largest telecom customers in the world. Our company was founded in 1984 with a single fiber optic cable and today, we manufacture thousands of products, generate an excess of $3B in revenue, and employ approximately 12,000 associates worldwide. At AFL, we recognize that our employees are our greatest asset.

We hire and train each individual, investing in them to ensure success in their careers. With a commitment to professional development and growth, let us connect you to your next career opportunity.

What We Offer:

• Flexible time off policy
• 401K Company match (up to 4% - dollar for dollar)
• Professional development, training, and tuition reimbursement programs
• Excellent medical, dental, vision, and life insurance policy options
• Opportunities for career advancement with an industry leading company!

We are seeking an experienced Senior Power BI Developer to join our Enterprise Information Management (EIM) team. This role is responsible for designing, developing, optimizing, and supporting enterprise reporting and analytics solutions across the Microsoft data platform. The ideal candidate is a highly skilled Power BI professional with deep expertise in semantic modeling, DAX, SQL, data warehousing, and cloud-based analytics platforms including Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and SQL Server.

This position will be able to work remotely from anywhere in the United States while supporting primarily East Coast hours.

This individual will partner closely with business stakeholders, business analysts, data engineers, and architects to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing reporting solutions that enable data-driven decision making. The role requires strong technical expertise, hands-on development experience, performance tuning capabilities, and a passion for building enterprise-scale business intelligence solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Power BI Development & Architecture

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain enterprise Power BI solutions, including: Semantic Models, Dashboards, Reports, Paginated Reports, KPI Scorecards, Self-Service Analytics Solutions
• Translate business requirements into scalable reporting and analytics solutions.
• Design and implement dimensional data models using star schema and best-practice modeling techniques.
• Develop advanced DAX calculations, measures, calculation groups, KPIs, and time intelligence solutions.
• Create efficient Power Query (M) transformations to cleanse, standardize, and prepare data for reporting.
• Build executive, operational, and analytical dashboards that provide actionable insights.

Data Modeling & Analytics

• Design and maintain enterprise semantic models and reusable business metrics.
• Implement fact and dimension models, hierarchies, aggregations, and composite models.
• Develop analytical solutions supporting operational reporting, performance management, and business intelligence initiatives.
• Ensure consistency of KPI definitions and data calculations across the reporting ecosystem.
• Support self-service reporting while maintaining governance and data quality standards.

Performance Optimization

• Evaluate and optimize report, dataset, and model performance.
  
  Utilize tools such as: DAX Studio, Tabular Editor, Power BI Performance Analyzer, Verti Paq Analyzer
• Troubleshoot refresh, query, gateway, and report performance issues.
• Implement incremental refresh, aggregations, Direct Lake, Import, Direct Query, and Hybrid architectures where appropriate.

Data Integration & Engineering Collaboration

• Collaborate with data engineers to design and support data pipelines and analytics solutions.
• Work with data sourced from: Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Fabric, SQL Server, Excel and other enterprise systems
• Support data validation, reconciliation, and quality assurance activities.
• Assist with migration and modernization initiatives involving cloud and enterprise data platforms.

Governance & Security

• Implement and maintain: Row-Level Security (RLS), Object-Level Security (OLS), Workspace…