Power BI Developer — United States

About The Company

Hays is a global specialist recruitment and workforce solutions business, connecting talented professionals with opportunities across a wide range of industries. We work with organisations to help them find the skills and expertise they need to succeed. For this opportunity, Hays is seeking a Power BI Developer to support the delivery of high-quality, enterprise-scale reporting solutions for a large and complex business environment.

About The Role

As a Power BI Developer, you will build and maintain semantic models, measures, dashboards and reports that give business leaders clear, self-service access to organisational performance information. Working closely with the Reporting Lead, Data Engineering teams and business stakeholders, you will turn agreed requirements and designs into reliable, scalable and high-performing Power BI solutions.

This is a practical, delivery-focused role with an emphasis on build quality, performance and business adoption. You will contribute across the reporting lifecycle, from clarifying business needs and preparing data through to modelling, development, testing, deployment and ongoing user support. You will also help establish consistent reporting practices and trusted datasets that support a single source of truth.

Qualifications

• A degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Commerce, a quantitative discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

• At least five years of hands-on Power BI development experience, delivering enterprise-level dashboards and reporting solutions.

• Advanced capability in Power BI, including DAX, Power Query and semantic data modelling.

• Strong knowledge of dimensional modelling principles, including star schemas, data relationships and row-level security.

• Advanced SQL skills and a sound understanding of data warehousing concepts, including fact and dimension tables, data grain and historical data.

• Experience working with Data Engineering teams in enterprise data environments.

• Clear communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

• Strong analytical, critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, with the flexibility to respond effectively to changing priorities.

• Experience with Teradata and/or Amazon Redshift is highly desirable. Experience in telecommunications or another large, complex enterprise is advantageous.

• A proactive, collaborative and delivery-focused approach, with attention to detail and a positive, can-do attitude.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Power BI semantic models and DAX measures, creating reusable datasets that deliver consistent, ready-to-use information.

• Develop intuitive dashboards and reports from agreed business requirements and wireframes, following established design and user experience standards.

• Write and optimise SQL queries against enterprise data sources, including Teradata and Amazon Redshift, to prepare efficient, well-structured reporting data.

• Engage business stakeholders and subject matter experts to gather, clarify and document reporting needs, KPIs, metric definitions and user requirements.

• Translate requirements into conceptual designs and wireframes, and validate proposed solutions with stakeholders before development begins.

• Partner with Data Engineering teams to confirm data readiness, grain, joins and overall data quality.

• Improve model and report performance through effective refresh scheduling, query optimisation and capacity utilisation.

• Test, document and deploy reports through established release processes, supporting user acceptance testing and stakeholder sign-off.

• Deliver accurate, high-quality solutions to agreed specifications and timeframes, and support users with enhancements, issue resolution and self-service analytics adoption.

Benefits

You will have the opportunity to contribute to greenfield and enterprise-scale Power BI initiatives, with ownership across the end-to-end reporting process. The work spans requirements gathering, data extraction, modelling, dashboard development, deployment and business adoption. You will collaborate with experienced reporting, engineering and business teams while helping leaders access useful, dependable insights and make informed decisions.

Equal Opportunity

Hays is committed to fair and inclusive recruitment. Applicants will be considered on their skills, experience and suitability for the role, without discrimination. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and encourage candidates who meet the requirements to apply.