Senior BI Developer

The Senior BI Developer is a hands-on, senior individual-contributor role responsible for designing and building NVA's Power BI semantic data models, dashboards, and self-service reporting solutions. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Business Intelligence, the Senior BI Developer partners with business teams across clinical, operational, and financial domains to turn reporting needs into trusted, high-quality, performant BI solutions - authoring advanced DAX, designing star-schema semantic models, and applying Power BI and Microsoft Fabric best practices.

As one of the most technically proficient developers on the BI team, this role builds AI-enabled and self-service reporting capabilities, mentors junior developers on technical craft, and helps uphold the BI development standards and governance the team relies on. The Senior BI Developer is accountable for ensuring the reports and datasets they deliver are accurate, scalable, and widely adopted.

About:
National Veterinary Associates is one of the largest and most respected communities of veterinary hospitals in the world, operating nearly 1,000 hospitals in North America, including in all 50 states, and caring for 8,000,000+ animals annually. NVA is backed by JAB Holding, a leading private equity firm. Each person who joins NVA is motivated by our mission to provide excellent, accessible care to improve the lives of animals and the people who love them.

NVA has been extremely successful over its 25+ year history and we're very excited about our next chapter as we work toward our shared vision of revolutionizing the pet care experience to provide more fulfilling lives for pets, their companions, and our team.

• Design and build robust Power BI semantic data models including star-schema and composite models, row-level security, and optimized DAX measures that connect to the enterprise data lake and Azure ecosystem.
• Apply and help evolve NVA's Power BI best practices and BI development standards naming conventions, model design patterns, report design standards, version control, testing, and documentation so the BI outputs you deliver are consistent, reliable, and maintainable at scale.
• Build AI-enabled and self-service reporting capabilities using Claude-assisted dashboard creation and insight generation within Power BI and its integration with broader Microsoft Fabric to help business teams answer their own questions.
• Partner with business teams across NVA clinical, operations, finance, marketing, HR, hospital support to understand their reporting needs deliver managed BI solutions for teams without in-house reporting talent and help upskill those with reporting capability to become self-sufficient on the Power BI platform.
• Execute the full BI development lifecycle for your deliverables from requirements gathering and data model design through report development QA deployment and user acceptance delivering on time on scope and to a high standard of quality.
• Follow and contribute to the BI governance framework report ownership certification lineage sensitivity labeling and lifecycle management ensuring the reports and datasets you build align with enterprise data governance policies set with the Data Governance team.
• Monitor and optimize the performance of your reports and datasets query performance refresh times and capacity usage within Power BI Premium Fabric and surface capacity or licensing considerations to the BI Manager and Data Engineering.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering so that upstream data models data lake layers and pipelines are structured and documented to enable efficient performant Power BI model development and minimize redundant data transformation within the BI layer.
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