Senior Power BI Developer

Ascentt is building cutting-edge data analytics & AI/ML solutions for global automotive and manufacturing leaders. We turn enterprise data into real-time decisions using advanced machine learning and GenAI. Our team solves hard engineering problems at scale, with real-world industry impact. We’re hiring passionate builders to shape the future of industrial intelligence.

Location: Plano, TX |
Experience: 8+ years |
Reports to: [Manager, BI & Analytics]
Type: Full-time |
Work model: [On-site / Hybrid]

We're hiring a Senior Power BI Developer in Plano to own enterprise reporting end to end — from stakeholder conversations through governed semantic models, tuned SQL, and dashboards executives rely on daily. You'll be the technical authority on Power BI, contribute to a secondary Tableau estate, and mentor junior developers.

• Build in Power BI: Executive dashboards, interactive reports, KPI scorecards, and paginated reports — with complex DAX measures and Power Query (M) transformations.
• Govern and secure: Implement Row-Level Security, tune dataset and report performance, and manage work spaces, refresh schedules, and gateway configuration in Power BI Service.
• Translate requirements: Meet with business and department leaders, convert needs into technical specs and wireframes, and deliver on an Agile cadence.
• Model Maintain governed semantic layers with certified metrics, conformed dimensions, and hierarchies; support star/snowflake schemas on Snowflake, Databricks, or equivalent.
• Write serious SQL: Complex joins, CTEs, window functions, and stored procedures — plus profiling and optimization of slow queries and pipelines.
• Validate: Source-to-report reconciliation and regression testing to keep metrics accurate and consistent.
• Support Tableau: Dashboards using LOD expressions, table calculations, parameters, and action filters; extract optimization and Tableau Server/Cloud publishing and permissions.
• Lead: Mentor junior developers, set BI standards, and document architecture and data lineage.

Required

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Information Systems, Analytics, or related field
• 8+ years in BI development, including enterprise projects with direct stakeholder engagement
• Proficiency in DAX and Power Query (M)
• Row-Level Security and Power BI performance tuning experience
• Advanced SQL — joins, CTEs, subqueries, window functions; able to analyze large existing procedures and functions
• Experience with large datasets in Snowflake, Redshift, Big Query, Azure Synapse, or SQL Server
• Solid grasp of data modeling and visualization principles; comfortable in Agile teams

Preferred

• Microsoft PL-300 or DP-600 certification
• Exposure to Looker, Quick Sight, or Figma for wire framing