Job Posting Description
Innovation starts from the heart. At Edwards Lifesciences, we’re dedicated to developing ground-breaking technologies with a genuine impact on patients’ lives. At the core of this commitment is our investment in cutting-edge information technology. This supports our innovation and collaboration on a global scale, enabling our diverse teams to optimize both efficiency and success. As part of our IT team, your expertise and commitment will help facilitate our patient-focused mission by developing and enhancing technological solutions.
How you will make an impact:
- Lead the design of enterprise-grade semantic and tabular models across Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and Azure Analysis Services—prioritizing reusability, governance, and long-term maintainability.
- Architect dimensional models (star/snowflake) that support both modern tabular workloads and legacy OLAP cubes still in production.
- Set and evolve standards for model design, naming, calculation groups, row-level security, deployment pipelines, and lifecycle management, and recommend the right consumption pattern per use case (Import, DirectQuery, Direct Lake, composite models, aggregations).
- Own performance tuning across the stack—source query design, VertiPaq compression, DAX/MDX efficiency, and refresh strategy—using tools like DAX Studio, Tabular Editor, VertiPaq Analyzer, and SQL Profiler.
- Set performance benchmarks, monitoring, and capacity planning for Power BI Premium, Fabric, and Azure Analysis Services, guiding partitioning, aggregation, incremental refresh, and storage mode decisions for large, high-concurrency models.
- Author advanced DAX/MDX, complex Power Query (M), and T-SQL, and build proof-of-concept models that prove out the architecture before handing off to development.
- Review and guide semantic models and report architecture built across Insights Engineering and partner towers, and contribute to high-priority initiatives like the Power BI Center of Excellence and Lakehouse consumption strategy.
- Serve as the technical sounding board across EDAIx—moving across projects to unblock the team, troubleshoot live issues, and pair on complex modeling problems.
- Partner with Data Engineering, Data Product, and Data Governance to shape upstream structures that simplify downstream analytics, and translate decisions into clear documentation, patterns, and reusable templates.
- Define and enforce semantic layer governance (certified datasets, metric definitions, version control, release standards), champion architectural quality and accountability for what reaches production, and track the Microsoft analytics roadmap (Fabric, Direct Lake, Copilot for Power BI, semantic link) to recommend adoption.
What you’ll need (Required):
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
- 8+ years of experience in business intelligence, analytics engineering, or data architecture, with meaningful time spent in an architect level capacity.
- Deep hands on expertise with Power BI semantic models, including advanced DAX, Power Query (M), and Tabular Editor.
- Strong experience designing and tuning tabular models in Azure Analysis Services or SQL Server Analysis Services.
- Working knowledge of multidimensional OLAP cubes and MDX, with the ability to support and modernize legacy cube workloads.
- Proven experience designing dimensional models (star schema, fact and dimension design, slowly changing dimensions, aggregations).
- Strong SQL skills for data profiling, query design, and source side optimization.
- Demonstrated success diagnosing and resolving complex performance issues across the BI stack.
What else we look for (Preferred):
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Direct Lake, OneLake, and Lakehouse based consumption architectures.
- Experience integrating Power BI with Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse, or Azure SQL.
- Familiarity with CI/CD for analytics (Git, TMDL, deployment pipelines, Tabular Editor automation).
- Exposure to Power BI Embedded, Power BI REST APIs, and tenant or capacity administration.
- Experience working in regulated industries such as medical devices, pharmaceuticals, or healthcare.
- Experience contributing to or operating a Power BI Center of Excellence
- Strong troubleshooting instincts and the patience to find the real root cause, not just the visible symptom.
- Confident communicator who can explain complex modeling and performance concepts to both engineers and business stakeholders.
- Comfortable jumping between projects, shifting context quickly, and supporting the team where the need is greatest.
- Collaborative by default, with a track record of mentoring developers and elevating the work of the people around them.
- High standards for craftsmanship, documentation, and delivery quality.
- Clear point of view on tool selection, with the judgment to recommend the right approach for each problem rather than defaulting to a single technology.
- Comfortable working across global time zones and partnering with team members in Prague, Pune, Irvine, and other Edwards locations.
- Adheres to all company rules and requirements, including Environmental Health and Safety standards, and takes responsibility for protecting people and the environment within their area of control.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or related discipline
- 8+ years experience in business intelligence, analytics engineering, or data architecture with architect-level responsibilities
- Deep hands-on expertise with Power BI semantic models, advanced DAX, Power Query (M), and Tabular Editor
- Strong experience designing and tuning tabular models in Azure Analysis Services or SQL Server Analysis Services
- Working knowledge of multidimensional OLAP cubes and MDX to support and modernize legacy cube workloads
- Proven experience designing dimensional models (star schema, fact and dimension design, SCDs, aggregations)
- Strong SQL skills for data profiling, query design, and source-side optimization (T-SQL)
- Demonstrated success diagnosing and resolving complex performance issues across the BI stack
- Experience with performance and diagnostic tools such as DAX Studio, VertiPaq Analyzer, and SQL Profiler
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Direct Lake, OneLake, Lakehouse-based consumption architectures
- Experience integrating Power BI with Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse, or Azure SQL
- Familiarity with CI/CD for analytics (Git, TMDL, deployment pipelines, Tabular Editor automation)
- Exposure to Power BI Embedded, Power BI REST APIs, and tenant/capacity administration
- Experience working in regulated industries such as medical devices, pharmaceuticals, or healthcare
- Experience contributing to or operating a Power BI Center of Excellence
Edwards Lifesciences Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is considered strong, with multiple plan choices, HSA options, and fertility support, and the company highlights holistic well‑being programs.
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Retirement Support — A company 401(k) match and well‑regarded retirement offerings add clear long‑term value to total compensation.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a discount and look‑back feature makes equity ownership accessible and enhances the total rewards package.
Edwards Lifesciences Insights
What We Do
Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE: EW), is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. We thrive on discovery and expanding the boundaries of medical technology, serving patients in 100+ countries, with the help of our employees in areas including Clinical Affairs, Quality Engineering, Research & Development, Regulatory Affairs, Sales & Marketing, corporate functions and more. Our roots date back to 1958 when Miles Lowell Edwards, a retired engineer with a background in hydraulics and fuel pump operations, set out to build the first artificial heart. Edwards believed the heart could be mechanized and was encouraged by Dr. Albert Starr to focus on developing an artificial heart valve. After just two years, the first Starr-Edwards mitral valve was developed and successfully placed in a patient. This innovation spawned Edwards Laboratories. Miles’ fascination with healing the heart and helping patients with heart disease stemmed from his own experience with rheumatic fever as a teenager and continues to fuel our patient-first culture today. Today, we are as passionate about providing innovative solutions for people fighting cardiovascular disease as we have ever been. It's our Credo. It takes integrity, collaboration, innovation, and focus. We are leaders in the design and manufacture of tissue replacement heart valves and repair products as well as advanced hemodynamic monitoring. We partner with physicians to innovate products designed to help patients live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. Our work is both rewarding and a privilege. The importance of what we do defines our approach. We work together to create an environment where ideas can flourish and we provide our people with the resources, expertise and support to bring those ideas to life. For our legal terms and trademarks, please visit: https://www.edwards.com/legal/legal-terms
