Data Visualization / Business Intelligence (BI) Engineer
Role Overview
Lead technical authority for enterprise BI solutioning supporting a government customer.
Architect, design, develop, govern, and sustain dashboards, analytic visualizations, and decision-support experiences across a Databricks-enabled unified data platform and approved BI tools.
Collaborate with the project manager or contractor lead, federal technical teams, and platform, SRE, governance, privacy, and development personnel.
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Position overview
Lead technical authority for enterprise BI solutioning supporting a government customer.
Architect, design, develop, govern, and sustain dashboards, analytic visualizations, and decision-support experiences across a Databricks-enabled unified data platform and approved BI tools.
Collaborate with the project manager or contractor lead, federal technical teams, and platform, SRE, governance, privacy, and development personnel.
Dashboard and data delivery
- Own dashboard design patterns, accessibility and usability standards, data-to-visual mapping, and visual QA.
- Deliver BI solutions on platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, Kibana, and Databricks Dashboards.
- Create governed semantic models, calculation logic, and BI-ready datasets from Lakehouse tables and Databricks SQL Warehouses.
- Implement row- and column-level security and governed tags through Unity Catalog.
- Set patterns for incremental refresh, DirectQuery or live connections, and aggregation tables to balance freshness, performance, and cost.
- Partner with Data Engineering to align medallion architecture and upstream tables and views with BI performance, schema stability, and quality needs.
Governance, support, and enablement
- Coordinate privacy and governance controls, lineage, sharing rules, and privacy considerations in BI tools and export pathways.
- Support BI assets and incidents; diagnose refresh, query, regression, and access issues, and maintain runbooks, monitoring, and alerts.
- Lead stakeholder demos, office hours, and training; maintain data dictionaries, metric definitions, and usage guides.
- Mentor BI engineers and analysts and apply quality gates for peer reviews, DAX/SQL testing, visualization accessibility, and reproducible deployments.
- Be available to the customer by telephone Monday through Friday, 0900–1700 EST.
Qualifications and requirements
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
- At least five years building and operating production-grade dashboards, including four years within the last six years; experience with at least two listed dashboard platforms or custom web UI dashboards.
- Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, engineering, analytics, or related field, or eight years of equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least one listed BI credential is required: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) or successor; Tableau Certified Data Analyst or Tableau Desktop Specialist plus demonstrable experience; Elastic Certified Analyst (Kibana); or Qlik Sense Business Analyst (QSBA).
- Hands-on SQL and medallion-pattern experience, including authoring governed SQL views and BI-ready tables.
- Proficiency with Git-based workflows for BI assets, dataset versioning, dashboards, and deployment scripts; familiarity with declarative bundles or BI CI/CD is stated as a requirement.
- Databricks Lakehouse Fundamentals, Databricks SQL, and Databricks Data Engineer credentials are preferred, not required.
- Cloud certifications are mentioned without further detail.
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