About this Data Engineer with Power BI - Senior engineer (Level 1) role at Arrow Electronics
Position:
Data Engineer with Power BI - Senior engineer (Level 1)Job Description:
Key Responsibilities
• Design, develop, and maintain interactive dashboards, reports, and semantic models using Power BI.
• Create optimized data models, DAX calculations, KPIs, measures, Power Query transformations, and enterprise reporting solutions.
• Develop and maintain complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and database objects for analytics and reporting.
• Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS Glue, Amazon EMR, AWS Lambda, or similar AWS data integration services.
• Develop Python scripts for automation, data processing, validation, and workflow optimization.
• Integrate data from multiple enterprise systems including SQL Server, Oracle, SAP, ERP, APIs, AWS services, and cloud data warehouses.
• Work with modern cloud platforms including AWS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, Databricks, and Power BI.
• Design dimensional data models (Star Schema/Snowflake Schema) and publish curated datasets for enterprise analytics.
• Optimize Power BI reports through DAX optimization, query tuning, incremental refresh, aggregation, and performance best practices.
• Implement Row-Level Security (RLS), workspace governance, deployment pipelines, and Power BI Service administration.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering teams to design scalable data lake, Lakehouse, and Medallion Architecture solutions.
• Support deployment, release management, CI/CD implementation, and migration across Development, UAT, and Production environments.
• Maintain technical documentation for dashboards, datasets, pipelines, and operational runbooks.
• Troubleshoot reporting, performance, data quality, and production issues while ensuring high availability of analytics solutions.
• Work closely with business stakeholders to gather reporting requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
Primary Skills (Must Have)
Power BI & Analytics
• Strong hands-on experience developing enterprise Power BI reports, dashboards, and semantic models.
• Expertise in DAX, Power Query (M), calculated measures, calculated columns, relationships, and data modeling.
• Experience publishing and managing datasets using Power BI Service.
• Knowledge of Row-Level Security (RLS), Incremental Refresh, Gateways, Deployment Pipelines, Workspace Management, and report performance optimization.
• Experience building executive dashboards, KPI scorecards, and self-service BI solutions.
Programming Languages
• Advanced SQL (essential) for query optimization, stored procedures, and analytics.
• Strong Python programming for automation, data processing, scripting, and ETL development.
Data Engineering & ETL
• Hands-on experience building ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS Glue, Amazon EMR, AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, or similar AWS services.
• Experience working with Amazon S3 as a data lake.
• Knowledge of data orchestration, monitoring, and workflow automation using AWS services.
• Understanding of Medallion Architecture, Lakehouse concepts, and modern data engineering best practices.
Data Warehousing & Cloud Platforms
• Experience with AWS (Redshift, S3, Glue, Athena, EMR, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch).
• Experience with Databricks, or equivalent cloud data platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud data warehousing, Lakehouse architecture, and dimensional modeling
Data Modeling & Database
• Strong understanding of Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, and dimensional modeling.
• Experience working with SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DynamoDB or cloud databases.
• Knowledge of semantic modeling and enterprise reporting architecture.
Engineering Best Practices
• Experience using Git/version control.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Strong documentation, troubleshooting, and code review practices.
Data Governance & Security
• Experience implementing security using AWS IAM, encryption, secrets management, and data governance best practices.
• Knowledge of data privacy, RBAC and secure data sharing.
Secondary Skills (Good to Have)
• Exposure to other cloud analytics platforms such as Azure, Snowflake
Qualification
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5–8 years of experience in Power BI, Data Analytics, and Data Engineering.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional business and technical team.
Preferred Certifications
• Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Associate
• AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate
• Databricks Fundamentals or Associate Certification
Tools & Technologies
• Power BI Desktop & Power BI Service
• Amazon S3
• AWS Glue
• Amazon Redshift
• Amazon Athena
• Amazon EMR
• AWS Lambda
• Amazon Kinesis
• AWS IAM & CloudWatch
• SQL Server / Oracle / MySQL / DynamoDB
• Python
• Advanced SQL
• DAX & Power Query
• Git / GitHub / AWS CodePipeline / Jenkins