
Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Plano • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $99,200 - $116,700 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Design, build, and maintain Power BI semantic models that support enterprise and brand-level analytics.
- Adapt and extend enterprise data models for optimized Power BI consumption in collaboration with data engineering architects.
- Establish modeling patterns that balance flexibility, performance, and governance.
- Own performance tuning of Power BI datasets, including:
- DAX optimization
- Model design tradeoffs
- Storage mode strategies
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex performance and scalability issues.
- Partner with BI governance and data governance teams to ensure:
- KPI definitions are documented, consistent, and auditable
- Semantic models align to approved business definitions
- Define and enforce modeling and calculation standards across Power BI solutions.
- Review and approve complex or enterprise-impacting Power BI models built by others.
- Act as a technical consultant to the Platform Product Owner, helping translate platform capabilities into effective modeling strategies.
- Partner with the BI Delivery Lead to ensure architectural designs are translated into scalable, high-quality execution.
- Support BI engineers and analysts by:
- Answering modeling and DAX questions
- Providing architectural guidance
- Establishing reusable templates and patterns
- Advise BI leadership on modeling tradeoffs, risks, and technical constraints.
- Lead the modeling work for high-impact BI initiatives.
- Collaborate with BI Delivery Leads to ensure scalable implementation of approved patterns.
- Focus primarily on project work, with platform administration handled by the Platform Product Owner.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.
- Deep expertise in Power BI, including:
- Semantic modeling
- DAX
- Dataset optimization and performance tuning
- Strong understanding of:
- Dimensional modeling
- Star/snowflake schemas
- Enterprise analytics patterns
- Experience collaborating with:
- Data engineering teams
- Data architects
- Governance or data management functions
- Strong consulting and communication skills — able to explain complex modeling decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong hands-on experience with SQL
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with enterprise data platforms (lakehouse, data warehouse, Fabric, etc.).
- Experience designing analytics solutions that serve multiple business units.
- Prior experience in an enterprise BI standards or architecture role.
- Power BI certification(s) a plus.
Benefits
- Employees (and their eligible family members) may enroll in the following types of insurance coverage: medical, dental, vision, legal, and accidental death and dismemberment, as well as FSA/HSA (depending on enrolled medical plan).
- Yum! also provides short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
- Employees may enroll in our 401(k) plan.
- Yum! provides 4 weeks of vacation, paid sick leave, 10 paid holidays, a floating day off and 2 paid days for volunteer time each calendar year.
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Hard Skills & Tools
Power BIDAXdataset optimizationperformance tuningdimensional modelingstar schemasnowflake schemaenterprise analytics patternsSQLdata modeling
Soft Skills
consultingcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingleadershiptechnical consultingguidancedocumentationauditingrisk assessment
Certifications
Power BI certification