Principal Engineer I – Senior Power BI Engineer
Western Alliance Bank
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Phoenix • Arizona, Ohio, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
AzurePySparkPythonSQLTableauVault
About the role
- Responsible for delivery and operations of technologies and platforms required to model, transform, analyze, report, visualize data
- Provide SME expertise in one or more key products and manage/support the organization's Data Analytics applications and tooling like Power BI/Fabric, Tableau
- Partner with data analysts, business analysts, data engineers, report developers, and enterprise architects to provide frameworks, set standards, enforce best practices, and train users using Power BI platform
- Take assignments that can be worked on individually without supervision and manage work effort from concept to completion
- Design, build, optimize, automate and maintain the Power BI analytics platform, ensuring scalability, security, and performance
- Implement data analytics principles aimed at business enablement, reliability practices and sound recovery procedures
- Ensure compliance with IT policies, procedures, and industry standards
- Design and manage Power BI workspaces, gateways, datasets, support business teams with secure, efficient report publishing and data refresh strategies
- Support governance and compliance standards across all analytics platforms
- Work closely with business and analytics teams to ensure reliable and governed data access for reporting and visualization
- Troubleshoot platform issues, optimize performance, and ensure uptime for critical data services
- Stay current on emerging data analytics technologies, recommending enhancements to improve efficiency and governance
- Collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders to gain a working understanding of business requirements and operational processes
- Act as a thought leader on analytics implementation, end user enablement, and training.
Requirements
- 8+ years of related experience in data analytics administration and development
- Bachelor's degree in related field required, Masters in related field preferred
- Previous leadership experience preferred
- Advanced to expert experience in managing and administering Power BI environments (Capacity management, User access management, gateways, Rest APIs, workspace configuration, DAX optimization, RBAC set up, Disaster Recovery)
- Advanced to expert experience with Power BI development (Semantic models, reporting and visualization, DAX)
- Deep understanding of Microsoft Azure data services, including Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Key Vault, Azure Monitor
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps preferred)
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, and/or PySpark
- Advanced to expert knowledge general Financial Services or Banking preferred
- Advanced proven experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Advanced ability to see the big picture and align projects with organizational goals
- Capable of leading and motivating cross-functional teams
- Expertise in resolving conflicts and addressing challenges as well as skilled at identifying and mitigating risks at the project level
- Advanced communication skills, excellent teamwork experience, ability to mentor and develop more junior engineers.
Benefits
- Competitive salaries
- Ownership stake in the company
- Medical and dental insurance
- Time off
- Great 401k matching program
- Tuition assistance program
- Employee volunteer program
- Wellness program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Power BIDAXSQLPythonPySparkAzure Data LakeAzure Data FactoryAzure SQLAzure Synapse AnalyticsCI/CD pipelines
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationteamworkmentoringconflict resolutionrisk managementproject managementcross-functional collaborationbig picture thinkinguser enablement