Power BI Senior Developer

Summary

Balfour Beatty is seeking a Power BI Senior Developer to join our team in Dallas, TX. The Power BI Senior Developer builds and maintains the Power BI reports, apps, and dashboards. Works directly with business units to define requirements, model the data, and deliver reports through design, development, testing, and acceptance, with minimal supervision. Supports the company’s Power Platform environment and helps Power Platform users follow citizen developer guidelines.

This is a hybrid position that requires working in the office three days per week and working from home two days per week.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and deploy Power BI reports, apps, and dashboards for Accounting, Finance, Risk, HR, Payroll, and Operations.  Manage access to reports and apps.
• Develop semantic models, DAX measures, calculation groups, and Power Query (M) transformations that perform well and scale.
• Work with business users and analysts to define reporting requirements, KPIs, and technical specifications; recommend design changes and communicate status to stakeholders and managers.
• Support the Power Platform environment, including Power Apps to write back from Power BI reports.  Ensure Power Platform users follow citizen developer guidelines.
• Work with Architecture & Integration team members to connect, shape, and refresh data from source systems, including gateway and scheduled refresh configuration.
• Create unit, regression, and user acceptance tests; validate report data against source systems; lead acceptance testing of completed projects.
• Respond to business inquiries, tune report performance, train business users, and maintain technical documentation
• Perform additional technology support tasks assigned by IT leadership to support business operations and user needs 

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university
• Minimum of 5 years of Power BI report and dashboard development experience
• Strong proficiency in DAX and Power Query (M).
• Significant experience in relational database design and development, including advanced SQL.
• Experience in dimensional (star-schema) data modeling.
• Modeling skills to represent requirements in graphical forms to augment textual representations.
• Experience with Power BI Service administration: workspaces, gateways, scheduled refresh, and row-level security.
• Able to manage multiple deadlines, prioritize multiple projects, and provide status reports on open projects. 

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with Microsoft Fabric and deployment pipelines.
• Familiarity with the Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate) and citizen developer governance.
• Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) or Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600).
• Experience with ETL/ELT tooling and enterprise data warehouses.
• Experience reporting on Accounting, Finance, HR, or Payroll data.
• Construction domain experience (project cost tracking, change orders, commitments, schedules etc.) and/or exposure to tools such as Procore, Primavera P6, and JD Edwards

Soft Skills

• Communicates clearly with business users and technical teams, including presenting data and findings.
• Works effectively in a team environment and collaborates across departments.
• Plans and prioritizes work independently and meets deadlines.
• Acts with integrity in support of the Company, IT values, and employees, with a constant focus on meeting or exceeding customer requirements and expectations.