Job Description: Power BI Specialist
Engagement Type: Full Time
Location: Miami, FL Remote
Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled Power BI Specialist to support analytics initiative focused on building clean, modern dashboard experiences and preparing high‑quality datasets for analysts and power users across the organization. This individual will work closely with IT and business stakeholders to rapidly deliver both front-end and back-end Power BI solutions that are scalable, intuitive, and aligned with best practices.
The ideal candidate is someone who can quickly translate business needs into crisp UI/UX dashboards while simultaneously designing well‑structured data models and helping define the foundation for long‑term self-service analytics.
Key Responsibilities
Dashboard & UI/UX Development (Primary Focus)
- Design and build clean, intuitive, and visually consistent Power BI dashboards tailored to business stakeholders.
- Apply UI/UX best practices, including layout, navigation, theming, readability, and mobile responsiveness.
- Transform ambiguous business questions into clear visual analytic solutions.
- Optimize existing dashboards for performance, clarity, and usability.
Data Modeling & Dataset Preparation
- Design and develop robust semantic models, star schemas, and reusable datasets for enterprise and departmental use.
- Prepare data for consumption by power users, analysts, and citizen developers.
- Establish dataset best practices including naming conventions, measure patterns, documentation, and data governance.
- Work with IT to evaluate data sources, address data quality issues, and set up efficient data pipelines.
Collaboration & Knowledge Transfer
- Work with business teams to understand KPIs, reporting needs, and user journeys.
- Partner with IT to ensure data models align with long‑term data strategy.
- Provide documentation, guidance, and lightweight training to power users.
- Recommend improvements to reporting processes, dataset governance, and analytics workflows.
Required Skills & Experience
Technical Skills
- 4+ years of experience building Power BI dashboards and semantic models.
- Strong command of DAX, Power Query (M), and model optimization.
- Demonstrated ability to create clean, modern UI designs in Power BI.
- Experience building and managing shared datasets for enterprise use.
- Solid understanding of dimensional modeling concepts (star schema, fact/dim tables).
- Experience working with complex data sources (SQL, ERP systems, CSVs, cloud data platforms, etc.).
Soft Skills
- Ability to quickly understand business processes and translate them into analytics solutions.
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to delivering polished results.
- Ability to work independently and deliver on tight timelines.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in manufacturing, supply chain, operations, or similar environments.
- Familiarity with Power BI governance, workspace strategies, and Certified datasets.
- Experience partnering with or advising analytics‑minded power users.
Engagement Deliverables (Example)
The selected specialist may be responsible for:
- Developing 3–5 new production‑ready dashboards.
- Designing or optimizing 1–2 reusable datasets for business teams.
- Establishing lightweight documentation for future power users.
- Providing recommendations for longer‑term reporting strategy.
Top Skills
What We Do
Five Rivers IT Provides IT infrastructure solutions to Small and Medium Businesses. Five Rivers IT strives to help businesses drive productivity, maximize value and increase reliability within their IT infrastructure. We accomplish this by providing our clients with the best IT architects, infrastructure solutions, data management and cloud services available. At Five Rivers IT, we build reliable IT infrastructures so you can run your business with peace of mind. We believe that IT solutions are the tools needed to run your business, and should not become your business. We avoid this scenario by partnering with our clients to determine effective solutions, often acting as their own IT staff, if necessary. Whether it’s an office move or moving to a cloud-based platform, we provide the knowledge, know-how and dedication necessary to get the work done – on time and within budget. Five Rivers IT offers strategic planning, project management and technical services that enable you to garner control of your IT systems. From conducting comprehensive requirement analyses to providing custom tailored solutions, Five Rivers IT is ready, willing and able to meet all of your technology needs.
