Type of Requisition:
Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None
Public Trust/Other Required:
BI Full 6C (T4)
Job Family:
Software Engineering
Job Qualifications:
Skills:
Business Intelligence (BI), Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions, Business Intelligence Applications
Certifications:
ITIL 4 Foundation | PeopleCert - PeopleCert, Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate (PL-400) | Microsoft - Microsoft
Experience:
3 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
No
Job Description:
Transform technology into opportunity as a Power BI Developer at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career.
MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACTAs a Power BI Developer, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of our customers. You will play a crucial role in:
- Designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise business intelligence solutions using Microsoft Power BI
- Developing interactive dashboards, reports, visualizations, and analytical solutions that provide actionable insights to business and technical stakeholders
- Gathering and translating business and reporting requirements into scalable and reusable Power BI solutions
- Developing semantic models, relationships, measures, calculated columns, and other analytical components using DAX
- Using Power Query and M language to transform, cleanse, integrate, and prepare data for reporting and analytics
- Connecting Power BI solutions to enterprise data sources, including SQL Server, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Dataverse, Excel, APIs, and other structured data sources
- Designing efficient data models using dimensional modeling and star-schema principles to support enterprise reporting and analytics
- Developing and optimizing SQL queries, views, and data transformations used by Power BI solutions
- Configuring and implementing row-level security (RLS) and other report and dataset access controls
- Publishing and managing reports, semantic models, dashboards, and applications within the Power BI Service
- Configuring and troubleshooting data refreshes, data gateways, connections, and scheduled refresh processes
- Monitoring and optimizing Power BI report, semantic model, and query performance
- Supporting deployment and promotion of Power BI solutions across development, test, and production environments
- Performing unit and integration testing and supporting user acceptance testing (UAT)
- Troubleshooting and resolving issues with reports, data models, data quality, refreshes, gateways, and data-source connectivity
- Developing and maintaining technical documentation, data definitions, report specifications, and solution documentation
- Collaborating with business analysts, developers, administrators, architects, data teams, and stakeholders throughout the solution development lifecycle
- Presenting analytical findings, dashboards, and technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Providing technical guidance and knowledge support to end users and junior staff
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEEDBring your engineering expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. The Power BI Developer must have:
Education: BA/BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field required
Experience:
- 3+ years of experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying business intelligence and analytics solutions required
- Hands-on experience developing enterprise reports, dashboards, semantic models, and analytical solutions using Microsoft Power BI
- Experience integrating and transforming data from multiple enterprise data sources
Required Skills
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service
- Strong proficiency with DAX for measures, calculations, and analytical logic
- Strong proficiency with Power Query and M for data transformation and preparation
- Experience designing semantic models, relationships, hierarchies, measures, and calculated columns
- Experience with dimensional data modeling and star-schema design
- Strong SQL skills, including developing and optimizing queries used for reporting and analytics
- Experience integrating Power BI with SQL Server, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Dataverse, Excel, APIs, and other enterprise data sources
- Experience implementing row-level security (RLS) and managing access to Power BI content
- Experience publishing and managing reports, semantic models, dashboards, workspaces, and Power BI applications
- Experience configuring and troubleshooting scheduled refreshes, data connections, and on-premises data gateways
- Ability to troubleshoot and optimize Power BI report, semantic model, DAX, and query performance
- Understanding of data quality, data validation, and reporting governance principles
- Experience supporting deployment of Power BI solutions across development, test, and production environments
- Familiarity with Power BI deployment pipelines and source/version control practices
- Familiarity with Agile methodology
- Ability to translate business and reporting requirements into scalable, maintainable, and reusable technical solutions
- Ability to communicate complex data and analytical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment
- Ability to provide technical guidance and knowledge support to junior staff
- Willingness to stay current on Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and emerging analytics technologies
Required Certification(s)
- Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate (PL-400 or AB-400)
- ITIL v4 or v5 Foundation
Security Clearance Level: Must be able to pass a background check to obtain a position of Public Trust
Location: Bossier City, LA
The likely salary range for this position is $76,565 - $92,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Travel Required:
Less than 10%
Telecommuting Options:
Onsite
Work Location:
USA LA Bossier City - 6310 E Texas St (LAS004)
Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
