Carbon Power of BI Developer

Company Description

Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.

Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond. 

Job Description

As a Power BI Developer (Expert), you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining advanced data visualizations, dashboards, and reports using Power BI. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including data engineers, analysts, and UX/UI designers, to transform complex data sets into actionable insights. Your expertise in Power BI will be critical in ensuring that the digital analytics application is both robust and user-friendly, meeting the needs of our global audience. 

Principal Accountabilities 

• Design and develop advanced data visualizations, dashboards, and reports using Power BI. 

• Implement data models and DAX queries to ensure efficient data retrieval and analysis. 

• Utilize advanced Power BI features, including DAX, calculated columns, and measures, to create sophisticated visualizations. 

• Collaborate with data engineers to integrate various data sources into Power BI including Snowflake and APIs 

• Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and security within the Power BI environment. 

• Optimize report performance and scalability to handle large datasets efficiently 

• Provide training and support to end-users to maximize the utility of Power BI reports and dashboards. 

• Stay updated with the latest Power BI features and industry best practices to continuously improve the application. 

Qualifications

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

• Minimum 7-10 years of experience as a Power BI Developer, with a proven track record of designing and deploying complex Power BI solutions.  

• Experience in embedding Power BI dashboards in applications efficiently  

• Expertise in data modelling, DAX, and Power Query in building complex custom visuals like MACCs 

• Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts and ETL processes. 

• Proficient in SQL and experience with various databases (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Snowflake). 

• Experience in performance tuning and optimization of Power BI reports and dashboards. 

• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail. 

• Effective communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. 

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies is a plus. 

• Knowledge of Python or R programming languages is a plus.

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Additional Information

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
   
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
   
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
   
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
   
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
   
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.

It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.