About the role
We are looking for a Senior Power BI Architect to lead the design and modernization of enterprise BI solutions. The role involves migrating analytics workloads to GCP/BigQuery, building governed semantic models using LookML/Looker, and delivering scalable Power BI reporting solutions. This is a hands-on architecture role requiring strong expertise in Power BI, data modeling, cloud migration, and technical leadership.
Responsibilities:
- Design and architect scalable Power BI solutions and semantic models.
- Lead GCP/BigQuery migration of existing BI and analytics workloads.
- Develop advanced DAX, Power Query M, and SQL.
- Build and govern LookML/Looker semantic models.
- Design star schemas, relationships, and enterprise data models.
- Optimize Power BI and BigQuery performance.
- Manage Power BI Service, workspaces, refresh, gateways, and security.
- Ensure data and business metrics remain consistent across Power BI, Looker, and BigQuery.
- Lead technical design, code reviews, troubleshooting, and production delivery.
- Mentor developers and collaborate with data engineering and business teams.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in BI/data engineering.
- 5+ years of strong hands-on Power BI experience.
- 3+ years in architecture / technical leadership.
- Strong DAX, Power Query, and SQL.
- Hands-on experience with GCP and BigQuery.
- Strong LookML / Looker experience.
- Excellent knowledge of data modeling and star schema.
- Experience with Power BI performance optimization.
- Experience with cloud/BI migration projects.
- Strong understanding of security, governance, and production support.
- Good exposure to Git, CI/CD, and Python/automation.
- Good to Have: Dataflow / Datastream, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Composer / Airflow, dbt / Dataform, Snowflake / Databricks, Power BI REST API / XMLA, Paginated Reports.
- Ideal Candidate: A hands-on senior Power BI architect who can independently drive Power BI architecture, GCP/BigQuery migration, and LookML semantic modeling while leading technical decisions and mentoring engineering teams.