Data Engineer (Fabric)

Vaco LLC is hiring a Data Engineer to build end-to-end analytics solutions in Microsoft Fabric, focused on trusted semantic models, KPIs, dashboards, and self-service reporting.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise Power BI reports, dashboards, and scorecards.
• Partner with business stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into reporting solutions.
• Create intuitive, visually compelling dashboards that support decision making.
• Develop and maintain KPI definitions, calculations, and business metrics.
• Optimize report performance, usability, and adoption.
• Implement row-level security (RLS), object-level security (OLS), and align with data governance standards.
• Support self-service analytics using certified datasets and reusable semantic models.
• Perform report testing, validation, and user acceptance activities.
• Design and maintain scalable Power BI semantic models using dimensional modeling best practices.
• Build star schemas including fact tables, dimensions, hierarchies, measures, and calculation groups.
• Create complex DAX measures and reusable business logic.
• Standardize and govern enterprise metrics to ensure consistency across reporting assets.
• Promote dataset reuse to reduce duplication of business logic.
• Support deployment pipelines and lifecycle management for analytics solutions.
• Build and maintain Fabric Dataflows Gen2, Data Pipelines, Lakehouses, and Warehouses.
• Develop ELT/ETL processes to ingest data from ERP, POS, operational systems, APIs, and cloud sources.
• Implement medallion architecture principles with Bronze, Silver, and Gold data layers.
• Optimize data refresh, transformation, and storage performance.
• Support data quality, lineage, metadata, and governance initiatives.
• Collaborate with platform administration and infrastructure teams on Fabric best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Analytics, Data Science, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
• 4+ years of Power BI development experience.
• Microsoft Fabric experience (or equivalent Azure Data Platform experience).
• Experience with multi-location retail, including familiarity with convenience stores and quick service restaurants (preferred), with exposure to point-of-sale (POS), sales, inventory, pricing, promotions, loyalty, and store operations data.

Technologies

• Power BI
• DAX
• Microsoft Fabric
• Azure Data Platform
• Fabric Dataflows Gen2
• Data Pipelines
• Lakehouses
• Warehouses
• ELT/ETL
• ERP
• POS
• APIs

Location: Cincinnati, OH (onsite)

Compensation: USD 95,000 - 125,000 per year

Minimum Experience: 4 years