Power BI Developer

Looking for a senior Power BI developer with experience in Python.

Long term contract role requiring 2 - 3 days per week onsite in Newark, NJ.
• Create Power BI and Tableau Dashboards to meet complex user requirements and demand.
• Performance tuning and aesthetics customization to meet user expectations.
• Develop and implement design best practices to ensure a seamless user-experience for business stakeholders.
• Transform complex reporting needs into technical specifications, including calculations, custom groups, parameters, filtering criteria, aggregations etc. Breakdown complex requirements into user stories, and drive delivery with the product team
• Work with the business on managing Power BI & Tableau user permissions, performance troubleshooting, and managing general help inquiries.
• Develop and Test Python and Custom API-related Workflows to build on the capabilities of the Power BI and Tableau Platform.
• Work with Tableau for support, ticket resolution, feature requests and defect tracking.
• Demonstrate strong backend platform expertise and front-end consultancy capability
• Recommend best practices from both a technical and process perspective as related to Power BI and Tableau development.
• Groom large datasets for optimal performance and maintainability
• Troubleshoot issues as they occur, identify criticality and impact, and provide appropriate workarounds

What You Will Need:
• 5+ years of Power BI application development experience including visualizations, parameters, and report optimization
• 3+ years of Tableau application development experience, including visualizations, parameters, and report optimization
• 5+ years of hands-on SQL Experience
• 3+ years of working on Power BI or Tableau Administration Responsibilities (Permissions, Server Maintenance and upgrades, Monitoring)
• 3+ years working in Python, Pandas Data Frames, API-driven workflows.
• Expertise across multiple BI platforms and data visualization tools include Tableau and Power BI
• Strong experience with performance tuning business intelligence and database platforms for maximum performance in each technical configuration
• Expertise with multiple database platforms including relational databases (ie. SQL Server and Oracle) as well as cloud-based data warehouses such as Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake
• Experience with both server and desktop-based data visualization tools
• Expertise with managing and mining very large internal and external data sets
• Experience with sourcing external data sets to meet business needs
• Demonstrated experience with testing business hypotheses, asking the right questions to provoke thoughts from business users and ultimately using data to test and validate hypothesis
• Very strong experience with quickly building data visualization worksheets and dashboards to analyze, view and interpret data sets
• Hands-on experience with Python for building automations for business processes
• Demonstrated experience with using predictive, prescriptive and descriptive data analytics to test, question and solve business problems
• Have a consulting mindset when working with internal clients across multiple departments of the organization
• Ideally familiar with financial services datasets across investment, product and distribution functions - not essential but highly desirable

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent, with a strong preference in a Data-centric major.