Power Bi And Data Engineer

Job: Power BI and Data engineer (806590)

Location : 1915 Health Services Way, Raleigh, NC 27607

Please provide a brief description of recent hands-on development work in building data pipeline using Azure Synapse Analytics.

Please provide a brief description of recent hands-on development work in building and managing Power BI dashboards.

DHHS-ITD is seeking a Data Engineer for design, development, and optimization of a cloud-based analytics environment built on Microsoft Azure and Power BI for the Child Welfare and Medicaid Program(s).

The Department of health and human services requires the assistance of a contract resource to serve as a Data Engineer responsible for the design, development, and optimization of data pipelines and analytics solutions/dashboards on cloud-based data platforms. This work will leverage Azure Synapse Analytics, Power BI, and integrations with Salesforce or Curam/Oracle to support program needs.

Key Responsibilities:

Analyze source systems and design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, and related Azure services.

Build and manage data ingestion workflows from Salesforce, including API integrations, schema alignment, and performance tuning.

Develop and maintain data models, data transformations,and semantic layers to support Power BI reporting and analytics.

Optimize Synapse pipelines, SQL queries, and data storage for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Troubleshoot pipeline failures, Salesforce API issues,and Power BI dataset/dataflow refresh problems.

Strong Hands-on experience configuring, designing, developing and testing dashboards using Power BI

Required

5

Years

Experience supporting Power BI datasets, dataflows, and DirectQuery/Import models.

Required

5

Years

Experience working with structured and semi-structured data formats (JSON, CSV, Parquet, etc.).

Required

3

Years

Strong experience in designing and optimizing scalable data pipelines using modern platforms like Azure Synapse, Snowflake or Databricks workflows

Required

3

Years

SQL Mastery: Advanced query writing, ETL/ELT, performance tuning, and optimization.

Required

5

Years

Programming Languages: Strong proficiency in Python or Scala for data processing.

Required

3

Years

Hands-on experience in developing efficient PL/SQL procedures

Required

5

Years

Experience with Programming and Scripting (SQL, T-SQL, and data query optimization)

Required

2

Years

Solid understanding of Azure cloud services (Synapse, Data Lake, Data Factory, Azure SQL, monitoring tools).

Required

2

Years

Experience in Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Delta Lake, and data modeling concepts and Warehousing (star schema, snowflake schema)

Required

2

Years