What are the responsibilities and job description for the Power BI Developer position at United Performance Metals?
Company Overview
United Performance Metals (UPM) is looking for its next team member dedicated to continuous improvement. Supported by O’Neal Industries with 100 years of expertise, this opening will provide you the opportunity to learn what it takes to distribute specialty metals across the globe. Through advanced technology and global reach, our company prides itself on delivering excellence and growing opportunities for our Associates.
Position Summary
The Power BI Developer is to design, develop, and deploy business analytics dashboards using Microsoft BI technologies such as SQL, Power BI, Tableau, etc. This role serves a subject matter expert for data visualization to provide insights and improve business decision-making.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Understand business requirements to set functional specifications for reporting applications.
- Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop novel ways of visualizing the findings of business data.
- Cleans and analyzes a variety of agency data sources.
- Partner internally and externally to understand business data and present key findings to supporting the implementation of process improvements. Presents key findings and summaries of results to stakeholders.
- Performs data quality checks to ensure the validity and cleanliness of agency datasets prior to their use in analysis and reporting.
- Leads training related to PowerBI and SQL technologies.
- Utilizes scripting and querying tools like Python, R or SQL, data visualization/BI tools, statistical methods, and data modeling to produce reports, data files, and dashboards.
- Development of SQL Datawarehouse and Power BI gateway connections with various external source applications.
- Provide technical and administrative assistance to areas for updating and maintaining existing dashboards.
- Expert project management skills.
- When needed, apply statistical methods and techniques to analyze trends, patterns, and correlations in the data
- Other duties as assigned.
Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in an Information Technology or Computer Science related field of study.
- 3 years of professional experience working directly in the job scope above.
- 3 year usage of the following tools in a business setting: MS SQL Server BI Stack, including SSRS and TSQL, Power Query, Tableau, MDX, PowerBI, and DAX.
- Ability to understand the data analysis life cycle and its application in a business setting.
- Experience designing and developing Tableau dashboards to build effective visualizations that meet a business need
- Proven project management abilities.
