Senior Power BI Developer
Role Overview
Senior Power BI Developer in Coherent's Digital Manufacturing Engineering team in Glasgow.
The role supports the site's reporting, analytics, and data visualization needs as part of its digital transformation.
Acts as the primary local Power BI specialist, working with Manufacturing, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and other functions.
Partners with local and global teams to align reporting with corporate data standards.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Senior Power BI Developer in Coherent's Digital Manufacturing Engineering team in Glasgow.
The role supports the site's reporting, analytics, and data visualization needs as part of its digital transformation.
Acts as the primary local Power BI specialist, working with Manufacturing, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and other functions.
Partners with local and global teams to align reporting with corporate data standards.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain Power BI reports and dashboards for manufacturing, operational, quality, materials, and business performance metrics.
- Gather stakeholder needs and translate them into analytical solutions, data models, semantic layers, DAX measures, and Power Query transformations.
- Analyze production, inventory, quality, yield, cycle time, planning, and efficiency data for trends and improvement opportunities.
- Improve existing reports through optimization, simplification, and performance tuning.
- Work with ERP, MES, PLM, database, spreadsheet, and other operational data; coordinate use of governed and approved sources.
- Manage Power BI workspaces, datasets, refresh schedules, security, deployments, documentation, version control, access, and dataset certification.
- Troubleshoot reporting, data quality, and dashboard performance issues; train and support users to improve adoption and self-service analytics.
- Contribute to digital improvement, operational efficiency, process automation, and continuous improvement projects.
Essential qualifications and experience
- Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
- Experience designing, developing, and supporting Power BI reporting solutions in a business environment.
- Strong Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service expertise; experience developing data models, DAX measures, calculated tables, and calculated columns.
- Experience using Power Query (M) to transform, cleanse, and prepare data.
- Ability to gather stakeholder requirements and turn business needs into practical reporting solutions.
- Understanding of dashboard design, user experience, data visualization, and multiple data sources in business context.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, troubleshooting, and communication skills, including explaining technical concepts to varied audiences.
- Able to manage competing priorities and timelines, work independently, and collaborate across teams.
Preferred experience
- Manufacturing, engineering, operations, or supply chain experience; reporting on production, quality, inventory, yield, planning, cycle time, or operational efficiency.
- Advanced DAX, Power Query, semantic modeling, star-schema design, or Power BI performance optimization.
- SQL queries and relational databases; ERP, MES, PLM, or other manufacturing systems.
- Power BI governance, workspace administration, deployment pipelines, or row-level security.
- Microsoft Fabric, Analysis Services, Azure data services, or modern cloud data platforms.
- Supporting self-service analytics and delivering end-user training.
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