Microsoft BI/ Data Engineer

About

Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers. Our client, Boston Associate Software Systems, is seeking the following.

Responsibilities

• Regardless of seniority or role, uphold mission, core values, and guiding principles by providing an exceptional service experience to colleagues and members alike through consistent demonstration of our service excellence behaviors.
• Develop and maintain ETL/ELT processes using SSIS, Fabric Pipelines, and/or Azure Data Factory, including advanced Script Tasks (C# or ) to automate file operations and apply custom business logic.
• Develop and implement solutions in Microsoft PowerBI and Microsoft Fabric, including Lakehouse/Warehouse modeling, Dataflows Gen2, Pipelines, and Semantic Models; support the modernization of existing ETL and reporting assets into Fabric and Azure cloud-based frameworks.
• Design, develop, and optimize complex T-SQL stored procedures, functions, and database objects for high-volume OLTP and Data Warehouse environments, with expertise in transaction isolation levels, table hints, deadlocks, linked servers, OPENQUERY, triggers, and column-level encryption.
• Perform advanced database performance tuning, including execution plan analysis, indexing strategies, partitioning, and transaction optimization.
• Contribute to the design and enhancement of OLTP and OLAP data models, ensuring alignment with business, analytical, and performance requirements.
• Build and support integrations that consume or expose REST APIs, including testing, validation, and troubleshooting using Postman and related API tools.
• Create and govern dashboards and visual analytics in Power BI or Tableau, ensuring accuracy, compliance with governance standards, and proper alignment with semantic models.
• Verify and maintain data quality and integrity across the data warehouse, semantic models, dashboards, reports, and data extracts.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database, ETL, reporting, data quality, performance, capacity, replication, and distributed data issues; participate in incident resolution and root-cause remediation.
• Maintain thorough documentation, adhere to change control processes, and support regulatory, cybersecurity, and data protection compliance.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Analysts, Engineers, and cross-functional teams to enhance BI and data platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree in Engineering or Computer Science
• 6 years of experience in reports and data warehouse development
• 5 years software development experience on Microsoft BI Platform including, , MS SQL Server
• 4 years of experience in DB Development (OLTP) using MS SQL
• 2 years of experience in building Data Marts using dimensional models
• 2 years of experience in building Dashboards and KPI visualization on Power BI and/or Tableau
• Strong reporting and data warehouse development skills on issues that are complex and evaluative in nature where troubleshooting may call for referencing an advanced knowledge base
• Large data migration experience
• Hands on experience using Oracle

What Makes You Stand Out

• Maintaining code/scripts in TFS for multiple environments
• Cloud technology like Microsoft Azure, MS Power BI and Microsoft Fabric.
• DBA activities like database backup and restore.
• Data extraction using API
• Handling data in XML