Data Engineer Consultant (Fabric, Power BI)
On-sitePerth, Western Australia, Australia
Job Summary
Design and maintain scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT solutions, and modern analytics platforms using Microsoft Fabric. Develop interactive Power BI dashboards, reports, and semantic models that enable data-driven decision-making. Translate business requirements into meaningful analytics while ensuring data quality, reliability, and performance across batch and near real-time use cases. Collaborate with architects, analysts, and stakeholders to deliver secure reporting solutions implementing Row-Level Security and access controls. Troubleshoot pipeline and performance issues and contribute to automation, monitoring, and governance practices. This role is based in Perth, Western Australia, with a preference for Australian citizens or permanent residents.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience in Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, or data-focused engineering roles
- Strong experience with Microsoft Fabric, including Lakehouse, Data Factory, Data Warehouse, and analytics workloads
- Hands-on expertise in Power BI development, including dashboards, reports, data modelling, DAX, and semantic models
- Strong SQL skills and experience with relational and analytical data platforms
- Strong experience with ETL/ELT development and data pipeline orchestration
- Experience working with structured, semi-structured, and large-scale datasets
- Experience with cloud data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Synapse, or equivalent
- Familiarity with dimensional modelling, Star Schema, and performance optimization techniques
- Experience implementing Row-Level Security (RLS) and Power BI governance best practices
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for data and analytics solutions
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and troubleshooting skills
- Candidates currently based in Perth or willing to relocate to Perth
- Australian Citizens
- Australian Permanent Residents (PR holders)
Desired Qualifications
- Australian Citizens are highly preferred
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