BI Engineer/ Data Visualization

Airitos - Issaquah, WA

Full-time

Issaquah, WA

About the position

The BI Engineer/Data Visualization role is focused on the design, development, and support of business intelligence solutions, including reports, dashboards, and analytics. This position requires collaboration with various stakeholders to deliver high-quality BI products that meet business needs and improve data management efficiency. The role involves working with BI technologies, ensuring adherence to architectural standards, and automating processes to enhance reporting capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Owns responsibility for end-to-end development and support of BI reporting environments for ongoing metrics, reports, dashboards, etc.
• Assists in the design and development of proof of concept and prototype application environments.
• Adopts and adapts to newly approved technologies, programming languages, tools, and standards for business intelligence.
• Collaborates to ensure application designs utilize appropriate patterns and standards.
• Documents BI application specifications and produces operational support manuals.
• Analyzes business needs and software requirements to determine the feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Identifies and interprets trends, patterns, and correlations among various data points.
• Assesses functional and nonfunctional requirements and creates designs to meet both business and technical needs.
• Designs, builds, and maintains automated reporting, dashboards, and analysis to enable teams to self-service data needs.
• Supports defining technical requirements, such as tool or platform selection criteria for the reporting environments.
• Assists in solution design efforts including analysis, data warehouse design, and architecture.
• Takes full responsibility for the balance between functional, system management, and service quality.
• Ensures the appropriate BI architectural standards are adhered to.
• Tests and resolves problems, performs root cause analysis, identifies gaps, recommends solutions and preventative measures.
• Automates, documents, shares, educates, delegates, and improves processes.
• Partners with product owners, product managers, solution leads, and other stakeholders to create and maintain robust datasets and models to support reporting and self-service solutions.
• Builds prototypes and wireframes of potential features.
• Translates business needs into technical specifications to deliver customized reporting and software solutions.
• Works in tandem with BI/Solution Architects, Data Architects, Data Stewards, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Data Quality Engineers to design efficient visualizations, scorecards, dashboards, and reports.
• Oversees the end-to-end development and support of BI reporting environments using Power BI, Power App, Power Automate, and other technologies.
• Creates data visualizations that illustrate data learnings and insights in an understandable and user-friendly manner.
• Creates, refines, and optimizes dashboards for reporting applications by connecting to various data sources.
• Identifies, designs, and implements internal process improvements.
• Communicates technical concepts to non-technical audiences both in written and verbal form.
• Performs peer reviews for other BI engineers' work.
• Regular and reliable workplace attendance at assigned location.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience working with BI technologies and tools, such as IBM Cognos, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau; proven and successful implementations of Microsoft Power BI.
• 2+ years of experience with Power BI.
• 1+ years using programming languages, such as Java, C#, DAX, MDX, SQL, Python.
• 1+ years BI related experience using ETL, Data warehousing management, Data Mining, Report Designer, or development; ability to write complex SQL queries against a variety of data sources.
• Experience in using Azure cloud architecture, low code power apps, visualization technologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Nice-to-haves

• BA/BS or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent software/services experience.
• Microsoft Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Microsoft Power Platforms, IBM Cognos, Tableau certifications.
• Azure Certifications.
• Experience with Git / Azure DevOps.
• Experience delivering reporting design, visualizations, and solutions through agile software development methodologies.
• Experience working with sensitive data and ecommerce/distribution/logistics business areas.
• Exposure to the retail industry.
• Exposure to developing solutions for retail metrics (sales, inventory, margin, projections etc.).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with UC4 Job Scheduler or similar Job Schedulers, Power Automate toolset.