Senior BI Developer​/BI Team Lead - Remote

JOB DESCRIPTION

Req : 367961

We are currently seeking a Senior BI Developer / BI Team Lead - Remote to join our team in Canada (CA).

Senior BI Developer / BI Team Lead

Reporting to the Director, Information Management & Reporting, the Senior BI Developer / BI Team Lead leads a development team for execution of the reporting strategy. They have a strong understanding of key BI technologies (end-to-end data warehouse stack) and provide summary analysis and recommendations for leadership. The Senior BI Developer / BI Team Lead monitors and manages delivery to align with business goals and architectural standards, and drives the solution forward based on leadership direction, technical constraints and developer input.

The incumbent is a strong team player and is a coach and mentor for the analytics & reporting team.

• Works closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate those into informative, visually appealing and simple to use reporting products
• Leads a Business Intelligence (BI) team, including data analysts, quality assurance analysts and BI developers
• Designs, delivers and maintains high-quality Power BI reports and dashboards
• Accountable for Power BI mentorship for reusability, technical efficiencies and dashboard design
• Performs operational troubleshooting to resolve disruptions to reporting service, for data refreshes and Power BI platform problems.
• Develops development standards and best practices. Performs quality assurance checks.
• Leads Power BI governance, through use of work spaces, appropriate security models and a managed self-service report authoring approach.
• Works with the privacy and security teams to ensure that reporting solutions adhere to privacy and security policies.
• Responds to work requests. Provides estimates to support timelines and stated deliverables.
• Works closely with the data services team (application support) to resolve data warehouse reporting issues or enhancements to currently published database data sets.
• Provides architectural leadership for the modernization of a large and complex Oracle reporting environment. Develops and presents options, plans and roadmaps to senior management teams.
• Participates, as BI team lead, in transformation activities to identify, detail and prioritize reporting and analytics agile epics and features. Promotes data as an asset and other strategic reporting goals.
• Works using the SAFe agile development methodology. This includes acting as Scrum Master for the Information Management & Reporting team.
• Participates in the Architectural Council as a BI solution architect and working group meetings to provide expert level input for reporting and analytics business needs.
• Participates in client governance meetings to bring forward analytics issues and respond to data access inquiries.
• Ensures BI solutions adhere to data governance processes, participates in data governance initiatives and provides expert level input for the impact & considerations to reporting.
• Leads the technical implementation of the Power BI Service (SaaS) in a secure technical ecosystem. Acts as Fabric Administrator for the overall solution deployment.

• Minimum of 7 years of industry experience in BI.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with the Power BI platform, in senior roles.
• Minimum 2 years of experience leading teams.
• 2 years’ experience leading the modernization of legacy reporting solution for a medium to large sized organization Data analysis process, approach and design.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into functional requirements.
• Ability to propose technical solutions that best fit needs within the required time frames and budget.
• 5 years’ experience with SQL Language (ANSI-92). Ability to mentor others and provide expert level performance tuning for queries on large volume databases
• 5 years previous experience with Microsoft Power BI concepts, product architecture and vendor roadmap.
• Strong Power BI DAX language skills. Power Query (M) skills are considered an asset.
• 3 years’ experience with supporting a Microsoft Power BI SaaS implementation, including Microsoft data gateways for data refreshes.
• 1 year experience…