Power BI Specialist
Location: London (Hybrid – 3 days per week on-site)
Contract: 6 months, Inside IR35 (extension highly likely)
Start: ASAP
Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior Power BI to join a high‐profile data and analytics team within a leading energy trading environment. This role requires a hands-on expert in Power BI who can work closely with business stakeholders, optimise existing reporting solutions, and deliver high‐quality dashboards at pace.
You will act as a technical leader (not a people manager), collaborating with onshore teams in London and offshore/nearshore teams, ensuring consistent, efficient, and professional delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Delivery
- Design and build new Power BI dashboards, reports, and analytical solutions.
- Enhance, refactor, and optimise existing dashboards for performance, usability, and business relevance.
- Implement strong data modelling principles (star schema, relationships, filter context).
- Apply best practices in DAX, performance optimisation, and UI/UX.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Work directly with traders and business stakeholders to gather requirements.
- Translate business needs into fit‐for‐purpose technical solutions.
- Present insights clearly and confidently to non‐technical users.
- Deliver high‐quality output with minimal iteration.
Proactive Improvement
- Identify optimisation and automation opportunities.
- Build POCs to demonstrate improvements and new capabilities.
- Suggest enhancements leveraging advanced Power BI features and (optionally) Microsoft Fabric / AI-driven capabilities.
Mandatory Skills (Strong senior-level capability required)
- Power BI (core expertise) – dashboards, modelling, optimisation
- DAX – advanced, scenario-based problem solving
- SQL – joins, aggregations, analytical logic
- Data Visualisation & UX Best Practices
- Analytical Thinking / Problem Solving
Technical Skill Requirements
Essential
- Power BI:
- DAX (measures, calculations, complex logic)
- Data modelling: star schema, relationships, filter context
- Power Query / ETL transformations
- Performance optimisation
- Dashboard design, KPI build, UX design
- Strong communication skills — ability to work closely with traders and senior stakeholders.
Nice-to-Have (Not mandatory but beneficial)
- SQL scenario-based analysis
- Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric
- Exposure to AI/Copilot features:
- AI DAX generation
- AI-powered dataflows
- Exploratory/semantic link capabilities
- Understanding of data pipelines, data engineering concepts, or transformation layers (not hands-on responsibility).
Experience Required
- Demonstrable experience in large, complex enterprise data environments
- Able to handle high-volume datasets efficiently
- Industry background in energy or trading is beneficial but not required
- (Candidates from banking or other data-heavy sectors also suitable)
Soft Skills
- Excellent communicator — confident with demanding stakeholders
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment
- Strong ownership mentality
- Team player with the ability to lead technically
- Proactive mindset, able to challenge existing solutions constructively
How to Apply
If you are an experienced Power BI specialist with strong stakeholder engagement skills and thrive in fast-paced environments, we’d love to hear from you. Please apply with your CV and availability.