Senior/Lead Power BI Engineer

We are looking for a Senior/Lead Power BI Engineer to join our team! 

Our customer is the leading school transportation provider in North America, being the owner of more than a half of all yellow school buses in the United States. Every day, the company completes 5 million student journeys, moving more passengers than all U.S. airlines combined and delivers reliable, quality services for 1,100 school districts. 

N-iX has built a successful cooperation with the client delivering a range of complex initiatives. As a result, N-iX has been selected as a strategic long-term partner to drive the digital transformation on an enterprise level, fully remodeling the technology landscape for 55,000 employees and millions of people across North America. 

Responsibilities:

• Specify, design, build, and support data warehousing and BI solutions.
• Create dashboards and KPIs to show the business performance to management.
• Design and maintain data models used for reporting and analytics.
• Help the broader team identify new features and business opportunities through your analysis.
• Enable self-service capabilities within the BI tools for users to be able to slice and dice information as needed.
• Build various data visualizations to tell the story of trends, patterns, and outliers.
• Monitor and tune BI tools to ensure optimum level of performance.
• Provide updates to customers, business, and staff on a timely basis for projects and tasks.
• Analyze existing reports and optimize them for standardization across the company.
• Ensure data accuracy by validating data for new and existing tools.

Must-Have Skills:

• Proven work experience as a Power BI engineer, with a minimum of 4+ years with SQL, SQL Server, SSRS, SSIS, PowerBI, SSAS 
• Understanding of data modeling, ETL processes, and data warehousing concepts.
• In-depth knowledge of Power BI /  Excel 
• Strong experience working in Agile environments like Scrum/Kanban
• Proven track record of visualizing complex reports for business stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with meticulous attention to detail
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities, with the capacity to mentor and guide a team
• Ability to work with vague requirements
• Experience working on  fix-priced projects or with big enterprise customers
• At least an Upper-intermediate level of English. 

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Business Intelligence certifications are a plus.
• Familiarity with additional AWS data services and tools
• Familiarity with Snowflake or similar DWH solutions
• Expertise in Python programming for data manipulation, automation, and analysis.