Job Title: Senior Data Visualization & Power BI Engineer
Experience: 4+ Years
Location: Onsite in Abingdon, VA or Hybrid
Job Summary:
Wize Solutions is seeking an experienced Senior Data Visualization & Power BI Engineer to lead the design, development, and optimization of enterprise business intelligence solutions. This role will serve as a key contributor in shaping how data is modeled, visualized, governed, and consumed across the organization and client environments.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Power BI, strong business intelligence and reporting experience, and the ability to work directly with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable, high quality dashboards, reports, and analytical solutions. This individual will partner closely with data engineering resources and business teams to ensure data is accurate, accessible, well structured, and aligned to decision making needs.
This role requires someone who is not just a report builder, but a strong BI professional who understands datasets, underlying database structures, BI pipelines, semantic layer design, performance optimization, user experience, governance, and enterprise reporting best practices.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 4+ years of hands on experience designing and delivering Power BI dashboards, reports, and data models in enterprise environments
- Strong expertise in business intelligence, data visualization, KPI development, and reporting strategy
- Advanced Power BI skills including DAX, Power Query, semantic modeling, relationships, measures, calculated columns, and performance tuning
- Strong SQL skills with the ability to query, analyze, and validate data across relational databases and large datasets
- Strong understanding of datasets, underlying database structures, and how source data supports reporting and analytics solutions
- Experience working with BI pipelines, data refresh processes, and reporting dependencies across source systems and downstream dashboards
- Experience gathering requirements directly from business stakeholders and translating them into scalable BI solutions
- Strong understanding of reporting best practices, data governance, usability, and dashboard design standards
- Experience troubleshooting data, report, refresh, and performance issues across BI solutions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to business and leadership audiences
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting or partnering with data engineering teams on data pipelines, source data readiness, and reporting architecture
- Experience with row level security, deployment pipelines, workspace management, gateway configuration, and refresh strategy in Power BI
- Experience building executive dashboards, operational reporting, and self service reporting solutions
- Experience mentoring junior team members and helping establish BI standards, reusable assets, and delivery best practices
- Experience with Azure based data platforms, Azure SQL, or Microsoft Fabric is a plus
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, development, and enhancement of Power BI dashboards, scorecards, reports, and visual analytics solutions
- Build and optimize semantic models that support consistent, scalable, and high performing reporting across the business
- Translate complex business requirements into intuitive and actionable visualizations for executives, operational teams, and client stakeholders
- Partner with data engineering resources to ensure reporting data is structured, validated, and optimized for analytics use cases
- Develop DAX measures, Power Query transformations, and data models that support meaningful KPI tracking and business analysis
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of datasets, source system relationships, underlying databases, and BI pipeline dependencies that support reporting solutions
- Improve report performance, data refresh reliability, and overall user experience across Power BI solutions
- Establish and enforce BI development standards related to naming conventions, design consistency, documentation, governance, and quality control
- Support data validation and reporting accuracy by identifying issues, troubleshooting root causes, and coordinating resolution across teams
- Provide leadership and guidance to junior and mid level technical staff involved in reporting, analytics, and data visualization efforts
- Document reporting logic, model structures, technical procedures, and development standards to support long term sustainability
Collaboration & Continuous Improvement:
- Work closely with cross functional business and technical teams to align reporting capabilities with operational goals and strategic priorities
- Identify opportunities to modernize reporting processes, reduce manual effort, and improve data accessibility and decision support
- Contribute to the evolution of Wize Solutions’ business intelligence capabilities, standards, and delivery approach
- Promote best practices in dashboard usability, report performance, governance, and stakeholder adoption
Conditions of Employment / Security Clearance Requirements:
- Applicants selected will be subject to a government background investigation
- Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident
- Residency requirement: 3 consecutive years in the last 5 years
Travel:
Must be able to travel to client sites as needed.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $85,000.00 - $95,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Vision insurance
Compensation Package:
Education:
Experience:
- Power BI: 4 years (Required)
- Data visualization: 4 years (Required)
Ability to Commute:
- Abingdon, VA 24210 (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Abingdon, VA 24210: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Abingdon, VA 24210