We are looking for a Senior Power BI Lead with extensive enterprise BI, Reporting and Project Leadership experience to join our team.
This role blends hands-on expertise with technical leadership, guiding a team while shaping best practices across semantic modeling, report development, and deployment.
You will act as a key bridge between business intelligence and data engineering, ensuring reporting requirements are translated into scalable, well-modeled data solutions. This is a highly collaborative role working across multiple projects, partnering with data engineers, designers, and stakeholders.
Technical Leadership & Mentorship
- Lead, mentor, and support a team of Power BI developers
- Establish and enforce best practices for Power BI development, including PBIX management, performance optimization, and maintainability
- Conduct code reviews and provide ongoing technical guidance
Power BI Development & Modeling
- Own and evolve Power BI semantic data models to ensure scalability, consistency, and performance
- Develop and maintain complex Power BI reports and dashboards where needed
- Ensure alignment between semantic models and business reporting needs
- Translate reporting and analytics requirements into structured data model enhancements
- Advocate for clean, reusable, and governed data structures
DevOps & Deployment
- Support and improve DevOps practices for Power BI, including version control, deployment pipelines, and lifecycle management of PBIX files
- Contribute to environment strategy (e.g., dev/test/prod) and release processes
Architecture & Cross-Project Contribution
- Contribute to light architecture decisions across multiple projects and clients
- Ensure consistency and alignment in BI solutions across initiatives
- Help define scalable patterns for enterprise reporting
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with UX/report designers and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality reporting solutions
- Focus on data and technical excellence while collaborating with design-focused roles for visualization best practices
Experience & Expertise
- 8+ years of experience working with Power BI in a professional environment
- Strong expertise in Power BI development, including PBIX management and semantic modeling
- Proven experience leading or mentoring BI/report development teams
Technical Skills
- Deep understanding of data modeling principles within Power BI (star schema, performance tuning, DAX optimization)
- Experience bridging BI and data engineering, including translating reporting needs into backend data changes
- Hands-on experience with Azure data platforms (e.g., Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, or similar)
DevOps & Delivery
- Familiarity with DevOps practices for Power BI (version control, CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies)
- Experience working across multiple concurrent projects in a consulting or fast-paced environment
Soft Skills
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to balance hands-on development with leadership responsibilities
- Pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset with attention to detail
- Experience in consulting or client-facing environments is an asset
- Exposure to enterprise data governance or data platform modernization initiatives
- Familiarity with tools like Git, Azure DevOps, or similar
We are open to both full-time and contract applicants at this time, however are only considering candidates based in Canada.
