BI Developer

About the Job

The BI Developer is responsible for ensuring that business leaders and teams have access to accurate, timely, and actionable reporting to support operational and strategic decision‑making. The role translates business information needs into effective reporting and analytics solutions, leveraging ERP and enterprise data platforms while balancing accessibility, data integrity, security, and confidentiality.

• Build deep expertise in the Navision reporting stack and adjacent tools:
  Navision native reporting, Time Xtender Cubes, Azure Services Tabular Models, Power BI—including capabilities, limitations, and appropriate use.
• Engage business owners, champions, and key users to gather/clarify reporting needs—challenging assumptions to ensure true purpose, metrics, and decisions are understood.
• Modify, create, and provision access to reports and dashboards to meet validated needs.
• Partner with global BI and internal/external development partners to design and deliver reporting solutions.
• Develop, communicate, and track the workplan for reporting delivery with the Navision project and global BI teams.
• Test reports with end users; manage UAT and secure formal sign‑off.

• Translate business requirements into scalable, reusable semantic models, datasets, and report designs (prioritizing standardization).
• Directly build reports/dashboards and coordinate partner development where appropriate.
• Ensure data definitions, KPIs, and hierarchies are consistent across regions and functions.
• Maintain report catalogs, documentation, and data lineage.

• Participate in the global BI network, identifying high‑priority global opportunities.
• Represent NA requirements in the global roadmap; contribute to global model design and enhancements.
• Help shape and uphold global BI governance balancing data integrity, security, and standardization with legitimate local customization.

• Coordinate with infrastructure/application teams to maintain dev/test/prod environments for BI/reporting (e.g., Power BI gateways, Tabular models, Time Xtender).
• Monitor and align reporting dependencies and integrations across Nicelabel, Zetadocs, Continia, Anaplan, and CRM to ensure data integrity and seamless environment transitions.
• Ensure change control, versioning, and release practices support reliable BI delivery.

• Track and optimize dataset refreshes, query performance, and model design to ensure reliable, performant reporting.
• Triage and manage third‑level BI/reporting issues; convert user‑reported problems into actionable tasks for BI, infrastructure, and the global helpdesk.
• Ensure support models, runbooks, and documentation enable efficient global support.

• Engage stakeholders to document evolving reporting needs; anticipate changes driven by process or system evolution.
• Translate business needs into cost‑effective, scalable reporting architectures that support operational excellence and strategic decision‑making.
• Maintain and refine BI architecture documentation, standards, and patterns.
• Scan industry practices and tooling; recommend pilots that improve performance, security, governance or integration.
• Contribute to capacity planning (data volumes, refresh windows, concurrency) to scale with growth.

• Ensure monitoring and alerting are in place for BI assets (refresh failures, gateway health, model performance).
• Equip the Global Service Desk with knowledge articles, SLAs, and escalation paths for BI incidents.
• Manage relationships with BI/reporting vendors and partners; oversee SOWs, effort estimates, and value delivery.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, IT or related field required.
• Minimum 5 years in management accounting, BI, or analytics roles with proven delivery of reporting and analytical solutions.
• Strong ability to understand business…