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Job#: 3031847
Job Description:
Power BI Analytics Engineer
Location: Ankeny, Iowa
Employment Type: Contract to Perm
Role Overview
An opportunity is available for an Analytics Engineer to design, build, and operate enterprise-grade semantic models and Power BI solutions. This role is positioned at the intersection of data engineering, analytics, and BI platform development. The Analytics Engineer will be responsible for building scalable, high-performance Power BI semantic models, optimizing performance, and enabling self-service analytics at scale.
Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade Power BI semantic models.
• Contribute to data modeling strategy for analytics use cases, including dimensional modeling and star schemas.
• Develop and optimize DAX measures, calculation groups, and model relationships with a focus on performance and maintainability.
• Implement and tune incremental refresh, partitions, and aggregations to support large-scale datasets.
• Partner with Data Engineering to ensure upstream data models are optimized for analytical consumption.
• Establish and enforce Power BI best practices across modeling, security (RLS), and dataset lifecycle management.
• Support self-service analytics by delivering well-documented, governed semantic models.
• Provide oversight and consulting to Power BI-enabled Analysts within business unit analytics functions.

Required Qualifications
Experience: BI Enterprise experience is required.
Technical Skills: Candidates must have experience with semantic models, the semantic layer, and transcribing new data into models. Proficiency with SQL joins is necessary.
Compensation & Benefits
A pay range of $55.00 to $75.00 per hour is offered for the contract portion of this role. The salary range for the permanent position is between $112,000.00 and $120,000.00 annually.
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