Senior Power BI Specialist

Senior Power BI Specialist

Location: Brisbane / Carseldine
Contract: 6-12 months initially, with strong potential for extension
Working Arrangement: Hybrid - minimum 50% office-based, up to 50% WFH
Level: Senior Specialist / AO7 equivalent

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Power BI Specialist to join a major Queensland Government environment supporting complex digital, data and transformation initiatives.

This is more than a standard Power BI Developer role. We are looking for a senior-level Power BI SME who can work across the full Power BI lifecycle - from understanding business and stakeholder requirements through to data modelling, solution design, development, performance optimisation, governance and continuous improvement.

You will work closely with senior stakeholders, data analysts, architects and engineers to transform complex data into meaningful enterprise reporting, executive dashboards, program insights and actionable information.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the design and development of complex Power BI reporting and analytics solutions.
• Engage with senior stakeholders to understand business questions, decisions and desired outcomes.
• Challenge and refine reporting requirements and recommend effective analytical and visualisation approaches.
• Design and develop sophisticated semantic models, data models and enterprise reporting solutions.
• Develop star schemas and dimensional data models.
• Create advanced DAX measures and calculations.
• Use Power Query / M to transform and prepare data.
• Work with SQL and complex data sources and integrations.
• Develop enterprise dashboards and reporting for executives, programs and project teams.
• Optimise Power BI solutions for performance, scalability and usability.
• Implement Row-Level Security (RLS) and appropriate security controls.Contribute to Power BI governance, workspace management and tenant considerations.
• Ensure data quality, validation and reporting accuracy.
• Collaborate with data architects and engineers on broader data and analytics solutions.
• Act as a Power BI SME, providing technical advice across projects and teams.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to Power BI developers and analysts where required.

About You

You will have strong hands-on experience across:

• Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service
• Advanced DAX
• Power Query / M
• SQL
• Semantic models and enterprise data modelling
• Star schemas / dimensional modelling
• Dataflows
• Enterprise dashboard development
• Executive and program reporting
• Power BI performance optimisation
• Row-Level Security (RLS)
• Power BI governance
• Workspace and tenant considerations
• Data quality and validation
• Complex data integration
• Stakeholder requirements and technical solution design

Desirable - Microsoft Data & Analytics

Experience across the broader Microsoft data and analytics ecosystem will be highly regarded, including:

• Microsoft Fabric
• Semantic models
• Dataflows
• Power BI governance
• Tenant security
• Data governance
• Power Automate, particularly for reporting and data workflow automation

Fabric and Power Automate are not mandatory, but experience in these areas would strengthen your application.

What You'll Bring

The successful candidate will be able to:

• Translate complex business requirements into effective analytical solutions.
• Challenge requirements and identify improved approaches where appropriate.
• Design underlying data models rather than simply consume existing datasets.
• Build sophisticated Power BI solutions end-to-end.
• Diagnose and optimise Power BI performance issues.
• Incorporate security, governance and data quality into solution design.
• Communicate effectively with senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership, advice and mentoring to other analysts and developers.

Why Apply?

This is an excellent opportunity to work on large-scale data, reporting and transformation initiatives within a major Queensland Government environment, with the opportunity to influence enterprise analytics solutions and work alongside experienced data, technology and business teams.

Paxus values diversity and welcomes applications from Indigenous Australians, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people living with a disability.