Power BI Developer

Introduction

We need a PowerBI Developer for our IBM Consulting Innovation Center projects

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

Design and develop interactive Power BI dashboards, reports, and visualizations from various data sources.

Translate business requirements into semantic models and data transformations using Power Query (M) and DAX.

Optimize report performance by applying best practices in data modeling, measure writing, and query reduction.

Work with cross-functional teams to define KPIs, metrics, and reporting standards.

Maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot published reports and data models in production environments.

Use row-level security (RLS) and Power BI service workspace management for data governance and access control.

Collaborate with data engineers to ensure clean, structured, and reliable data pipelines.

Document development processes, models, and datasets for maintainability and knowledge sharing.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

3+ years of experience in Power BI report development and dashboard creation.

Strong knowledge of DAX, Power Query (M), and Data Modeling (star schema, snowflake, normalization).

Experience in SQL and understanding of relational databases, data warehouses, and OLAP systems.

Proven track record of building enterprise-grade dashboards and reports using Power BI.

Experience working with DirectQuery and Import modes, and understanding their trade-offs.

Familiarity with Power BI Service, including workspaces, dataflows, deployment pipelines, and RLS.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse, or other modern data platforms.

Exposure to Power BI REST APIs, PowerShell, or DevOps for BI deployment automation.

Knowledge of other BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Qlik) is a plus.

Understanding of TMDL, Tabular Editor, and source control for Power BI artifacts.

Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python or Py-Spark for data manipulation.

Microsoft certifications such as PL-300 or PL-600.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

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