Analyst - PowerBI Developer

Overview

Analyst - PowerBI Developer in AstraZeneca's Chennai-based reporting and analytics team, building enterprise-grade Power BI solutions that scale across markets and support faster, smarter decisions.

What you'll do

• Lead the design, development, deployment, and support of secure, scalable, high-performing Power BI solutions that turn commercial and omnichannel data into actionable insight.
• Build and optimise star-schema models, calculations, and DAX to deliver fast, reliable analytics at enterprise scale.
• Define and promote standards, templates, and automation to increase consistency, reduce cycle time, and improve maintainability across reports and models.
• Ensure accuracy, accessibility, and actionability through rigorous source-to-report reconciliation, row-level security, lineage tracking, and regulated dissemination procedures.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to business users, analysts, data engineers, governance teams, and delivery partners, translating objectives into technical designs with clear trade-offs.
• Coach developers, lead design and code reviews, and cultivate a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Manage delivery workflows, gateways, and refresh strategies; diagnose and resolve issues related to reports, models, and security throughout the entire flow.
• Estimate work, manage dependencies and risks, run UAT, and deliver several projects simultaneously in Agile or Scrum environments.
• Interpret campaign and channel metrics to generate insights that improve customer engagement and commercial impact across markets.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's Degree.
• 4-6 years of experience in business intelligence, reporting, analytics, or data management, with at least 4 years of hands-on Power BI solution delivery.
• Advanced proficiency in Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service, including semantic models, workspaces, apps, deployment pipelines, gateways, scheduled and incremental refresh, and row-level security.
• Expertise in DAX, Power Query, dimensional modelling, star schemas, calculation design, and performance optimisation for large or complex data models.
• Strong SQL skills and experience integrating data from relational databases, cloud data platforms, APIs, files, and enterprise applications.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot report, model, refresh, gateway, security, and data-quality issues across the end-to-end reporting flow.
• Experience with requirements elicitation, technical design, estimation, documentation, testing, source-to-report reconciliation, UAT, deployment, and production support.
• Understanding of enterprise data governance, information security, access controls, data lineage, quality management, and controlled release practices.
• Proven experience leading technical discussions, reviewing builds and code, mentoring developers, and influencing collaborators without direct authority.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, prioritisation, and communication skills, capable of explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Experience delivering multiple initiatives in parallel within Agile or Scrum teams, including risk management, dependency management, and continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of omnichannel, commercial, or digital marketing analytics and experience translating campaign and channel metrics into actionable insights.

Nice to have

• Experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, or another highly regulated industry, particularly commercial or omnichannel reporting.
• Exposure to Microsoft Fabric, Azure data services, Databricks, Snowflake, or comparable cloud analytics platforms.
• Familiarity with DAX Studio, Tabular Editor, Performance Analyzer, source control, CI/CD, Power Automate, REST APIs, or scripting for administration and automation.
• Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) or a relevant Microsoft Fabric certification.
• Experience with Azure DevOps or Jira, Agile delivery, technical documentation, and structured knowledge transfer.

Details

• Location: Chennai, Tamil Nādu, India.
• Work mode: a minimum of three days per week from the office, with individual flexibility.
• Date posted: 05-Nov-2026; closing date: 12-Nov-2026.