Senior Report Developer

We are seeking an experienced Senior Report Developer to lead the end-to-end design, modeling, and implementation of business intelligence reports and interactive dashboards. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional business partners, technical leads, and stakeholders to translate complex operational requirements into high-performing Power BI solutions. Working across relational databases, cloud ecosystems, and disparate data sources, you will profile, transform, and structure data to enable self-service analytics and empower decision-making across key operational initiatives.

Location: Toronto, ON (Fully Onsite – 5 days/week required)

Duration: 12-month contract.

Advantages
Advanced Power BI Scope: Build custom, high-impact dashboards leveraging M, DAX, Power Query, and direct cloud dataset connections.

Enterprise Analytics Focus: Transform raw database structures into intuitive visual assets for operational and executive audiences.

Cloud & SQL Integration: Hands-on development across SQL Server environments, Azure Data Factory, and Microsoft Power Platform.

Dedicated Onsite Workspace: Collaborate directly with technical teams and business stakeholders in a focused, 5-day onsite workspace.

Responsibilities
Power BI & Dashboard Engineering: Design, engineer, format, and deploy intuitive, high-performing Power BI reports and dashboards tailored for both executive leadership and operational teams.

Data Modeling & Schema Design: Develop, maintain, and optimize scalable dimensional data models, relationships, and schemas that ensure data integrity and query efficiency.

ETL & Data Transformation: Extract, profile, clean, and load data from diverse sources using M, DAX, and Power Query, selecting appropriate storage modes and connection types.

Cloud & Database Integration: Connect Power BI reports to SQL Server, Azure services, and cloud data platform components, managing data refresh schedules and dataset governance.

Performance Optimization: Analyze and tune Power BI performance across complex DAX measures, relationships, data imports, and report visuals.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Requirements: Facilitate discovery discussions with technical and non-technical stakeholders to analyze, document, and translate business needs into actionable BI solutions.

Testing & Quality Assurance Support: Support quality assurance and testing teams during unit, integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT) phases to validate report accuracy.

Documentation & Knowledge Transfer: Author comprehensive technical documentation, report specifications, and data flow diagrams, providing knowledge transfer for ongoing operational support..

Qualifications
Power BI Developer Seniority: Minimum 5 years of demonstrated experience as a Microsoft Power BI Report Developer building enterprise business intelligence reports and dashboards (Strictly Required).

Core BI Language Proficiency: Demonstrated expertise writing and optimizing M code, DAX calculations, and Power Query transformations (Strictly Required).

Microsoft Cloud & Power Platform: Practical experience working within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem (including Power BI Service, Azure Data Factory) and the broader Power Platform (Strictly Required).

SQL Server & Dataset Management: Proven experience working with SQL Server, Power BI datasets, direct queries, import modes, and data refresh configurations (Strictly Required).

Data Modeling Expertise: Demonstrated, hands-on experience in data modeling and visualization across diverse schemas and business intelligence implementation methodologies (Strictly Required).

Stakeholder Communication: Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and documentation skills with a proven ability to translate business needs into technical BI specifications.

Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior Report Developer" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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