Sr. Business Intelligence Developer

University of Minnesota Physicians offers a hybrid work opportunity in Minneapolis, MN for a Sr. BI Developer. This role carries a salary range of USD 98,336 to 147,494 annually and requires a bachelor’s degree with 8 years in business intelligence and analytics. The right candidate will design, develop, and optimize enterprise BI solutions, build scalable semantic models, apply governance and performance best practices, and transform data into actionable insights using Power BI, SQL Server, and the Azure data platform.

Benefits

• Healthcare, including vision and dental
• 401K
• Parking
• Tuition assistance
• Competitive wages

Responsibilities

• Lead collaborative sessions with business users, analysts, and technical partners to define, refine, and prioritize analytical requirements aligned with business goals
• Perform advanced analysis of source and curated data to identify data quality issues, integration risks, and modeling opportunities; communicate insights and recommendations to stakeholders
• Design and develop visually compelling Power BI reports and dashboards with intuitive navigation and drill-through capabilities
• Create reusable report templates, standardized layouts, and JSON theme files to improve consistency and speed delivery
• Design and maintain semantic models that meet performance, scalability, security, and modeling best practices
• Diagnose slow reports, visual bottlenecks, and refresh performance issues
• Troubleshoot data model issues related to relationships, ambiguity, row context, filter context, and refresh failures
• Utilize tools such as DAX Studio, Tabular Editor, Performance Analyzer, and SQL tuning techniques
• Support workspace governance, deployment pipelines, security models, and release management
• Monitor Power BI model refresh orchestration within Azure Data Factory
• Lead Power BI platform administration, including gateway configuration and upgrades, data source management, capacity monitoring, and performance optimization

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Business Analytics, Statistics, or Information Systems
• 8–12 years of overall BI and analytics development experience, with 5+ years delivering enterprise Power BI solutions
• Strong dimensional modeling and semantic layer design expertise
• Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts, dimensional modeling, relational databases, and SQL for complex analysis
• Extensive hands-on experience with Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service, including advanced DAX, data modeling, performance tuning, security, and change tracking
• Experience with report tuning, model compression, cardinality management, and star schema optimization
• Knowledge of Row-Level Security (RLS), Object-Level Security (OLS), data sensitivity, and UI/UX design principles
• Deep understanding of Power BI Service administration, refresh architecture, gateways, and licensing/capacity models
• Proven ability to manage and deliver multiple, complex BI initiatives on time
• Technologies: Power BI, Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, DAX, DAX Studio, Tabular Editor, Performance Analyzer, SQL, SQL Server, Azure Data Factory, Azure data platform, Excel, Power BI Gateway