Job#: 2066302
Job Description:
Title: PowerBi/Fabric Developer
Location: Dallas TX (Hybrid)
Duration: 6+ Month Contract
if interested send resumes to [email protected]
About the Role:
We are seeking a Power BI Developer with strong administration expertise to lead the redesign, optimization, and governance of an enterprise-wide Power BI environment. This role is crucial in preparing the organization for a migration from Power BI to Microsoft Fabric by establishing data governance standards, streamlining workspaces, and developing scalable, enterprise-grade reports and dashboards.
The organization currently has 146,000+ personal Power BI workspaces with no clear governance, leading to inconsistent reporting, security risks, and inefficiencies. The ideal candidate will take ownership of cleaning up the Power BI environment, implementing governance policies, and ensuring a smooth transition to Microsoft Fabric while mentoring internal teams on best practices.
This is an opportunity to work in a rapidly modernizing data environment with Azure cloud, Databricks, and AI/ML integration on the roadmap.
Key Responsibilities:
Power BI Development & Administration:
• Redesign and optimize the existing Power BI workspaces with enterprise standards in mind.
• Identify and clean up unnecessary or redundant workspaces before migration.
• Implement data governance policies, ensuring structured deployment, security, and access management.
• Develop scalable and standardized Power BI reports, dashboards, and datasets to improve data-driven decision-making.
• Work with the enterprise data team to integrate Power BI with Azure data services.
• Administer Power BI security settings, user access controls, and workspace permissions to align with enterprise IT policies.
• Monitor Power BI performance and optimize data models for efficiency and speed.
• Document standards, processes, and best practices for Power BI usage and governance.
Migration to Microsoft Fabric:
• Lead the migration from Power BI to Microsoft Fabric, ensuring minimal disruption.
• Work with IT teams to define the roadmap and best practices for a structured migration.
• Ensure proper data integrity and governance compliance during the transition.
• Provide training and knowledge transfer to the internal data team for long-term maintenance.
Collaboration & Mentorship:
•Work closely with business stakeholders and data teams to understand reporting needs and deliver actionable insights.
•Educate and mentor internal data teams on Power BI governance, administration, and best practices.
•Support cross-functional teams in adopting Azure-based data solutions and integrating Power BI with cloud infrastructure.
Must-Have Skills & Experience:
• Power BI expertise – strong experience in developing enterprise-level Power BI reports, dashboards, and data models.
• Power BI administration – experience managing permissions, workspace organization, and governance policies.
• DAX, Power Query, and Power BI Service – advanced hands-on experience.
• Microsoft Fabric migration – knowledge of or experience with transitioning from Power BI to Microsoft Fabric.
• Azure Data Services – familiarity with Azure SQL, Data Factory, Synapse, or other Azure data platforms.
• Data governance & security – strong understanding of workspace governance, role-based access controls (RBAC), and enterprise data policies.
• SQL proficiency – ability to query, transform, and optimize data from structured sources.
Nice-to-Have Skills:
• Databricks – experience working with big data environments and advanced analytics.
• AI/ML knowledge – understanding how AI/ML models can be integrated into data visualization strategies.
• Cloud architecture – experience working with Azure-based cloud environments.
• DevOps & CI/CD pipelines – experience with automated data deployments and version control for reports.
Notes from Heather:
Overview:
· Immature data environment that is going through a transformation to optimize/modernize
· Currently, a Microsoft shop, on-prem and moving to Azure cloud environment
· Tammye (CDO) is taking on the brunt of strategic work and education of her current team
· Majority of team has limited background to tools outside of the current stack, so need to add knowledge base around Azure and azure data services, machine learning, data governance, pipeline development, etc.
Power BI Administrator
· Power BI is deployed and used, but no governance or standards were set
· Deployment of the tool was not done with an enterprise perspective
o Stood it up and gave to the business – no guides or standards set
o Currently have 146,000 personal workspaces (don’t know/track who is using)
o Some of the end points exposed to the public
· Don’t have Standard data management practices
· Have enterprise gateway to facilitate - but don’t know who is using it
· Will be converting from Power BI to Microsoft Fabric; in theory should be an easy conversion, but with the messy deployment a lot needs to be fixed and cleaned up prior
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Day to Day:
· Design and help with enterprise deployment of Power BI to Fabric
· Will convert from PowerBI to Microsoft Fabric (more comprehensive data platform with PowerBI premium capabilities)
· Prior to converting, will need to redesign the current PowerBI set up and workspaces with enterprise standards in mind
o With 146,000+ don’t want to convert unnecessary workspaces
· Set standard data management practices
· Need the resource to come in, lead this conversion, then knowledge transfer to current data team to maintain
Must Have:
· Power BI expertise – experience with wide deployment is helpful
· Microsoft Fabric – migration from PowerBI is helpful
· DAX, Power Query, and Power BI Service
· Azure
· Knowledge of data governance policies and practices
Nice to Have:
· Databricks – strong plus
if interested send resumes to [email protected]
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