Power BI Engineer

Bridgenext is a digital consulting services leader that helps clients innovate with intention and realize their digital aspirations by creating digital products, experiences, and solutions around what real people need. Our global consulting and delivery teams facilitate highly strategic digital initiatives through digital product engineering, automation, data engineering, and infrastructure modernization services, while elevating brands through digital experience, creative content, and customer data analytics services.

Don’t just work, thrive. At Bridgenext, you have an opportunity to make a real difference – driving tangible business value for clients, while simultaneously propelling your own career growth. Our flexible and inclusive work culture provides you with the autonomy, resources, and opportunities to succeed.

Bridgenext is seeking a senior Power BI Engineer to support modernization of large‑scale, legacy BI platforms into cloud‑native Power BI and Microsoft Fabric‑based solutions. This role is highly hands‑on and focused on performance, scalability, and semantic modeling for complex enterprise datasets.

The engineer will work closely with data engineers and business stakeholders to address challenges related to large data volumes, refresh latency, and cost optimization, while supporting ongoing migration from SSRS / SSAS‑style models to modern analytics platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Design and develop enterprise‑grade Power BI reports and dashboards

Build and optimize semantic models using DAX, Power Query and tabular modeling concepts

Implement DirectQuery, Composite Models, and Aggregations to handle large data volumes

Optimize report performance and large dataset export capabilities

Support migration from SSRS (Paginated Reports) and legacy BI solutions to Power BI

Collaborate with data engineering teams to align data structures for analytics consumption

Apply row‑level security (RLS) and governance best practices

Act as a technical escalation point for Power BI performance and modeling issues

Workplace This is a remote role requiring full‑time Eastern time‑zone working hours and travel to the Toronto office once per quarter. We have the ability to hire applicants based in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, or British Columbia.

Must Have Skills

5+ years of Business Intelligence experience

Expert level Power BI development (DAX, Power Query)

Strong experience with semantic modeling and analytical data design

Proven ability to handle large datasets, refresh optimization, and performance tuning

Experience working with data sourced from Databricks or SQL‑based warehouses

Experience supporting or leading BI platform migrations

Preferred Skills

Experience migrating SSRS / Paginated Reports to Power BI

Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric Semantic Models / Direct Lake

Understanding of CI/CD pipelines for Power BI deployments

Experience in regulated industries (insurance, banking, healthcare)

Professional Skills

Strong stakeholder communication skills

Strong team and individual player

Maintains composure during all types of situations and is collaborative by nature

High standards of professionalism, consistently producing high quality results

Self‑sufficient, independent requiring very little supervision or intervention

Demonstrate flexibility and openness to bring creative solutions to address issues

Equal Opportunity Bridgenext is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Canadian citizens and those authorized to work in Canada are encouraged to apply.

Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Bridgenext provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full‑time employment, for roles that may be hired as described above. The current salary range for this position is $115,000 – $135,000 CAD annually. Our comprehensive total rewards program goes way beyond a competitive salary.

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