Principal BI Engineer

Overview

Principal BI Engineer role at ABC Fitness Solutions to architect, build and improve enterprise reporting solutions, semantic models and cloud-based analytics platforms.

What you'll do

• Architect, build, and improve enterprise reporting solutions, including dashboards, semantic models, data transformations, embedded analytics, and reusable reporting assets.
• Design scalable Power BI semantic layers using dimensional modeling, governed metrics, reusable business logic, and performance-conscious modeling practices.
• Build and optimize reporting logic using SQL, DAX, Power Query, views, stored procedures, and cloud-based data-processing patterns.
• Work across Azure, Azure Synapse, Power BI, AWS, and related data platforms to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable reporting solutions.
• Establish reporting engineering standards for source control, testing, documentation, release management, monitoring, and production readiness.
• Improve reporting reliability through validation checks, source-to-report reconciliation, refresh monitoring, regression testing, and operational runbooks.
• Partner across Product, Engineering, Data Engineering, Security, QA, and business teams to translate reporting needs into scalable analytics solutions.
• Mentor engineers and analysts by sharing patterns, reviewing designs, creating reference implementations, and helping teams adopt consistent reporting practices.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of experience architecting and delivering reporting, BI, analytics engineering, enterprise data, or cloud data platform solutions.
• Deep hands-on experience with Power BI, including Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, DAX, Power Query, semantic models, refresh management, security, and performance optimization.
• Experience working with Azure, Azure Synapse, Power BI, AWS, and modern cloud-based data environments.
• Strong SQL skills, including experience designing and optimizing complex queries, views, stored procedures, transformations, and reconciliation logic.
• Strong understanding of dimensional modeling, star schemas, semantic-layer design, data warehousing, lakehouse concepts, and governed business metrics.
• Experience building dashboards, paginated reports, embedded analytics, shared semantic models, or customer-specific reporting solutions.
• Familiarity with engineering practices such as Git-based source control, peer review, CI/CD, automated deployments, and environment management.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex production reporting issues involving data accuracy, refresh failures, business logic, security, performance, or platform capacity.

Nice to have

• Experience with Databricks or similar lakehouse platforms.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Power BI Embedded, or advanced Azure analytics services.
• Experience with Tabular Editor, DAX Studio, Power BI Performance Analyzer, deployment pipelines, or related performance and modeling tools.
• Experience designing multi-tenant, customer-specific, or embedded reporting solutions at enterprise scale.
• Experience using Python, PowerShell, APIs, orchestration tools, copilots, or AI-assisted workflows to automate reporting engineering processes.

Details

• Hybrid role, working 2 to 3 times a week from the Hyderabad office.
• Location: Hyderabad Office, India.