Halff has an immediate opening for a Power BI developer (Business Analyst / Power BI). The successful candidate must be a motivated learner ready to quickly learn new business models, integrated data sets, and systems. This is not a visualization-only role; the person in this position must be able communicate business value with data accurately.
We are looking for a well-rounded professional who can create polished, professional Power BI dashboards, semantic models, and curated reporting datasets. The ideal candidate is comfortable learning new accounting systems, project and operational data sets; researching unfamiliar data structures; validating results against trusted sources; and helping build reusable datasets rather than relying solely on others for data engineering support. Experience in the AEC / professional services industry, project accounting concepts, or similar ERP-driven environments is highly valued.
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What you will do:
- Assist in the design and development of polished Power BI dashboards, including report layout, usability reviews, DAX measures, semantic models
- Validate dashboards and datasets against source systems, legacy reports, accounting outputs, and other trusted reporting sources
- Trace data from source systems through SQL, Fabric, semantic models, and Power BI reports to validate accuracy and explain results
- Research and understand existing SQL Server VP/DataMart datasets, Microsoft Fabric data assets, semantic models, and reporting logic.
- Design and maintain curated reporting datasets and semantic models in Microsoft Fabric to support scalable, governed analytics
- Collaborate with internal clients to translate business needs into technical requirements, identify appropriate data sources, and deliver vetted dashboards and datasets
- Document dataset definitions, business rules, data lineage, assumptions, and known limitations
- Support front-office, production/operations, and management reporting needs as part of a cross-trained Business Systems team
What you will need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Analysis, Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related area; equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Intermediate Power BI experience, including DAX, data modeling, semantic models, report design, performance tuning, and row/column-level security
- Strong troubleshooting / critical thinking skills
- Strong curiosity, drive, persistence, and ability to quickly learn new business systems, tools, terminology, and processes.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to research unfamiliar business data, understand source-system context, and turn complex operational data into trusted reporting structures.
- Intermediate Microsoft SQL Server experience, including writing, troubleshooting, and optimizing complex T-SQL queries, views, and stored procedures.
- Strong understanding of data modeling concepts, including fact/dimension design, grain, star & snowflake schema design
- Experience validating data and dashboards against other reporting sources to ensure accuracy, consistency, and business confidence.
- Ability to manage small to medium-sized projects of moderate complexity.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills
Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Experience with Deltek Vantagepoint/Vision or other Deltek products.
- Documenting data sets and semantic models to make them AI-ready?
- Using assistive AI technologies for dashboard development.
- Ability to work with business leaders, accounting/finance, operations, and technical team members to understand business needs and deliver practical data solutions.
- Experience with exercising and documenting best practices for dashboard design and data engineering
- Experience with provisioning self-service analytics
- Experience creating dashboards for project performance, billing, utilization, backlog, revenue, labor, financial, or operational reporting
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric medallion architecture, lakehouses, warehouses, notebooks, and data pipelines
- Understanding of compliance, data governance, security, lineage, and documentation practices in reporting and system design
Company Overview:
Halff is a full-service infrastructure consulting firm planned, designed, engineered, constructed — and purposed — for people. Since 1950, we’ve been creating smart solutions that improve lives and communities by turning ideas into reality.
Halff was founded on a core tenet: Focus on people, treat them well, and success will follow. It’s no wonder, then, that our employees and the culture they create result in our firm consistently being named a Top Workplace in America.
Our industry-leading professionals collaborate to meet tough challenges in creative ways. You can view Halff's full complement of services here
Halff has more than 30 offices in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas, Arizona and Georgia. For a full list of our locations, click here
We offer excellent benefits, including but not limited to:
- Medical, dental, prescription and life insurance
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Paid time off (PTO) and 8 company paid holidays (and Veteran's Day for our veterans)
- Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- 529 College Savings Plan
- Flexible spending accounts (FSA)
- Employee Assistance Plan
- Click here for a more comprehensive list of Halff's benefits
Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
Halff is a drug-free workplace. This offer of employment is contingent upon the receipt of a clear drug screen and background check prior to your first day of employment. This position may be subject to random drug testing pursuant to federal regulations.
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