BI Developer

University of Wisconsin-Madison

BI Developer transforming academic and learner data into insights for UW School of Medicine. Collaborating with teams to enhance educational programs and support decision-making.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeMadison • Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $80,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

SQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partners with a business analyst and/or business subject matter experts (SMEs) to elicit requirements from a broader set of enterprise stakeholders.
Documents and presents complex options through mock-ups and prototypes to these audiences
Develops and maintains complex design/build documentation for approval by business SMEs and project team leads.
Designs and builds embedded documentation in BI products to support end-user understanding.
Reviews and provides input to communications and/or training resources on end-user-facing content
Makes accurate estimations based on scope and requirements, BI developer resource effort, and timing to design, build, test, and release BI developer solutions.
Understands and communicates possible risks and mitigations to estimated timelines
Provides coaching to enterprise BI developers in BI/visualization development best practices and data governance standards.
Reviews and assesses BI products for alignment with development standards as part of governance approval and production release.
Contributes to the development and documentation of BI standards
Works with multiple enterprise data domains/sets and using advanced expertise in enterprise-level tools, matches the right data presentation modality to user requirements.
Employs advanced expertise in data visualization and storytelling to design, prototype, test, and deliver accurate, on-going enterprise solutions for low- to medium-scale user populations
Collaborates with data warehouse engineers and other BI Developers to integrate source data.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3 or more years of hands-on experience in BI development, data engineering, or a heavily technical data analyst role
Experience writing, optimizing, and debugging complex SQL queries for data extraction, transformation, and performance tuning
Demonstrated track record of partnering with stakeholders to understand their core objectives, co-create strategies, and collaboratively drive projects to successful completion
Experience in creating datasets and visualizations in Power BI
Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to build relationships, actively listen, and collaborate effectively across teams.
Demonstrates intellectual curiosity and initiative, with a strong desire to learn and deeply understand academic data.

Benefits

Comp & perks

generous vacation, holidays, and sick leave
competitive insurances and savings accounts
retirement benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

BI developmentdata engineeringSQLdata extractiondata transformationperformance tuningdata visualizationPower BIdata governancemock-ups

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationcoachingstakeholder engagementproblem-solvingintellectual curiosityinitiativeactive listeningrelationship buildingproject management