Dura Digital is looking for a Business Intelligence consultant who knows that great analytics starts with strong data models. You care deeply about semantic consistency, performance, and usability; and you’re passionate about helping organizations deliver effective BI platforms.
As a Senior Business Intelligence Developer and consultant, you’ll play a key role in working with our clients designing and maintaining Power BI data models , supporting the migration of Power BI reports from SQL Server to Snowflake. You’ll work closely with data engineers, analytics partners, and project stakeholders to ensure trusted, scalable, and high-performing analytics solutions.
WHAT MOVES YOU
- You enjoy translating complex project requirements into intuitive, performant BI solutions.
- You’re analytical, curious, and thoughtful about how data models impact downstream reporting and decision-making.
- You’re a strong communicator who can explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- You take pride in clean, well-documented models and reports that others can easily understand and reuse.
- You enjoy mentoring others and raising the overall maturity of BI practices.
- You stay calm and focused when navigating ambiguity, change, or platform migrations.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design, develop, and maintain Power BI data models using best practices for performance, scalability, and usability.
- Lead and support the migration of Power BI reports and data models from SQL Server to Snowflake.
- Partner with data engineering teams to align Power BI models with Snowflake data structures and transformation logic.
- Work with project stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into clear, actionable reporting solutions.
- Optimize DAX measures, calculated columns, and model relationships for performance and clarity.
- Ensure consistency in metrics, dimensions, and definitions across reports and subject areas.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and reduce technical debt in existing Power BI content.
- Support data validation and reconciliation efforts during platform migrations.
- Promote BI best practices including version control, documentation, and deployment workflows.
- Assist in establishing standards for Power BI development, governance, and lifecycle management.
- Provide production support for critical BI assets, ensuring reliability and trust in reporting.
WHAT YOU'VE DONE
- You have a university degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field. or equivalent experience.
- You bring 5+ years of experience in Business Intelligence, Analytics Engineering, or Data Analytics roles.
- You have deep hands-on experience with Power BI, including:
- Data modeling
- DAX
- Performance optimization
- Data design for self-service analytics
- You have strong SQL skills and experience working with SQL Server.
- You have experience supporting or leading BI migrations (on-prem to cloud and/or platform-to-platform).
- You’ve worked with cloud data warehouses, with Snowflake experience strongly preferred.
- You understand dimensional modeling concepts (e.g., Kimball) and how they apply to BI semantic layers.
- You’re comfortable collaborating with data engineers and analysts.
- You have experience working in Agile or iterative delivery environments
SKILLS
- Business Intelligence & Analytics
- Power BI (data models, reports, dashboards)
- DAX optimization and modeling best practices
- Semantic layer design
- Data Platforms
- SQL Server
- Snowflake / cloud data warehouses
- Data Modeling
- Dimensional modeling (Kimball)
- Metrics standardization
- Languages & Tools
- SQL
- DAX
- Version control (Git)
- Practices
- BI governance and lifecycle management
- Data quality validation
- Performance tuning
- Documentation and knowledge sharing
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
