Power BI Developer

Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future. A Fortune 200 leader, we’re the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges.

About CDW

CDW is a leading multi-brand provider of information technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare customers around the Globe. A Fortune 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Index, CDW was founded in 1984 and employs over 15,000 coworkers, with headquarters across the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.

CDW prides itself on “making amazing happen”. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and are grounded in the CDW Way.  Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same.  From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together.

Job Summary

CDW has a mission to become the leading B2B integrated technology solutions provider in the markets that we serve. Enabling, supporting, and accelerating our ambitious plans to grow rapidly by understanding the needs of our business customers, partners & co-workers through redefining & optimizing our data and information and supporting the changes in operating models, modernization, and business systems.

CDW UK’s Enterprise Data team is responsible for driving and accelerating Data, reporting and analytics use, understanding and transformation across people, process, and systems.

Simplistically put its role is to:

Provide meaningful and clear metrics to measure, support and predict business activity.

Support change initiatives to ensure best practice and value focused outputs.

Ensure clear governance, security and protection of data, its use and meaning.

Evolve the way of thinking and activity to being a data driven organisation

Responsibilities include:

Must Have:

• An in-depth understanding of how the Power BI Service and Desktop works.
• Applying effectively the navigation features in Power BI (e.g., bookmarks, drill-through) to guide readers through a compelling data-driven story.
• Ingesting data from a variety of sources and performing required transformations in the Power BI query editor using a mixture of utilizing the UI and writing M code.
• Developing calculations in DAX which are accurate and performant on large datasets. Proficient in writing SQL, MDX and M.
• Advanced tabular modelling and model administration via the XMLA endpoint, including knowledge of advanced tools, such as Tabular Editor and DAX Studio.
• Data Modelling and a good understanding of Kimball methodologies.
• Provide technical support and guidance through prototyping, testing, build, and launch of Power BI products.
• Experience of good Source Control methodology ideally with DevOps Repos.
• Experience of writing custom visuals.
• Able to implement row level security on data and understand application security layer models in Power BI.
• Knowledge and experience in prototyping, designing, and requirement analysis.
• Undertaking data analyses to support decision making
• Develop user manual / training documentation or videos.
• Be a key member of the SCRUM team and create or contribute to, backlog refinement, story writing, sprint planning, demonstrations and retrospectives.
• Interpret user requirements into technical requirements including complexity estimation, implement in sprint cycles, collaboration into process improvement, etc.
• DevOps approach to software; create high quality code using traditional software practices, such as building, linting, unit testing, source control, CI/CD, peer reviews, etc.

Personal Attributes

• Self-driven, doesn’t require micromanagement
• Comfortable in fast-paced environments with occasionally shifting, ambiguous requirements
• Passionate about both process and technology and the impact they can have on business and our customers
• Articulate and credible
• Quality and detail orientated
• Positive attitude and influence on others
• Fast learner and able to adapt to new technology and keep abreast of current industry trends and practice
• Excellent communicator in all forms to key stakeholders
• Excellent organisation and time management skills

Who we are:
CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organizations across the globe. Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies; from fresh-faced start-ups to international conglomerates. With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small. 

What you can expect from us: Culture, coworkers, careers. 
CDW is not only the People Who Get IT but the People who get People. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together. At CDW, you’ll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes who you will learn from and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true self—and your best ideas—to CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving—and better solutions for our customers on a rapidly evolving technology landscape.