Thompson Gray, Inc. is seeking an Onsite Power BI Developer for a Department of Defense (DoD) project office integrating resource management data and systems (finance, acquisition, manpower) at Fort Eustis in Newport News, VA.
Requirements
- 5+ years of IT experience including experience in development of large-scale, complex data architectures
- Knowledge of Data Science and Data Analytics concepts and tools
- Knowledge of Data Management and Data Architecture concepts
- Experience in creation of data models
- Experience with DoD and knowledge of DoD standards
- Demonstrated experience translating business and technical requirements into comprehensive data strategies and analytic solutions
- Demonstrated ability to adequately plan and meet delivery objectives and maintain adequate service levels in a highly dynamic, complex environments
Responsibilities
- Collaborating with business analysts and IT specialists to build a data analytics environment using Microsoft's Power Platform and Azure cloud tools.
- Architect, build and support an environment populated by 50+ data sources, 300+ data tables and 10,000+ data points across 7-8 different lines of business (budgeting/financial, contracts/acquisition, manpower/human resources, etc.).
- Requirements gathering and documentation, establishing data connections to new source data (PBI Connectors, APIs, Azure SQL, spreadsheets, etc.), data cleansing and normalization, data modeling and data architecture into a unified, cross-domain, integrated environment.
- Building advanced data analytics and dashboards from the normalized data using Power BI.
- Produce and support a Microsoft tools cloud-based PaaS data architecture and environment
- Produce data models based on business requirements (star schemas, snowflake schemas, UML diagrams, relational database design, etc.) per the Kimball Group's Dimensional Modeling Techniques, standards of 3NF (third normal form), etc.
- Analyze large, complex systems and data to identify semantic gaps, performance bottlenecks, and data errors as well as uncover opportunities to improve efficiency
Other
- Onsite Power BI Developer for a Department of Defense (DoD) project office
- Required in-office at Fort Eustis, VA three days per week (Tu, Wed, Thu).
- U.S. citizens
- BS degree in Data Science, Computer Science or related field/equivalent experience
- A current DoD security clearance of SECRET or above is highly desired.
