Senior Data Engineer BI

About the Role

Systems Arabia is seeking a Senior Data Engineer BI to join our team in Riyadh. This full-time role requires 5-10 years of experience and focuses on designing, developing, and optimizing business intelligence solutions within an on-premise Microsoft BI environment. The successful candidate will collaborate with business stakeholders, data engineers, and data architects to deliver governed dashboards, paginated reports, semantic models, and data-driven insights.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain interactive dashboards and paginated reports using Power BI Report Server (PBIRS) and SSRS.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand reporting requirements, define KPIs, and translate business needs into scalable BI and ETL solutions.
• Build and maintain governed measures, calculations, KPI definitions, and semantic models.
• Perform source-to-target and source-to-report reconciliation to validate data and reporting accuracy.
• Implement and manage Row-Level Security (RLS), access controls, versioning, and change management across reports, dashboards, and ETL artifacts.
• Develop complex SQL queries, stored procedures, views, and data extraction processes.
• Optimize reports, DAX calculations, SQL queries, semantic models, and ETL processes for improved performance.
• Apply dimensional modelling concepts including star schema, fact and dimension tables, slowly changing dimensions, conformed dimensions, fact table grain, and surrogate keys.
• Perform ad-hoc data analysis to identify trends, anomalies, risks, and business opportunities.
• Collaborate with data engineering and architecture teams to ensure BI solutions follow enterprise data standards and governance practices.
• Train and support business users in self-service analytics within governed boundaries.
• Participate in peer reviews and ensure adherence to BI, reporting, ETL, and development standards.
• Troubleshoot data, reporting, performance, and access-related issues and coordinate with relevant teams for resolution.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Statistics, or a related field.
• 6–8 years of experience in Business Intelligence, Data Integration, Data Analytics, or related roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with Power BI and publishing reports to Power BI Report Server (PBIRS).
• Strong experience developing SSRS and paginated reports.
• Proficiency in DAX, including measures, calculated columns, and KPI expressions.
• Strong SQL Server skills, including complex joins, stored procedures, CTEs, views, and query tuning.
• Strong understanding of dimensional modelling and data warehousing concepts.
• Hands-on experience implementing Row-Level Security (RLS) in Power BI.
• Experience with ETL and data integration concepts and processes.

Required Skills

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial services, investment banking, banking, or fintech.
• Experience with Power BI Report Server administration, including scheduling, subscriptions, folder security, and access management.
• Experience working in regulated environments involving data classification, sensitivity labelling, and access governance.
• Experience with Talend or other enterprise ETL/data integration platforms.
• Relevant certifications in Power BI, Microsoft BI, Data Analytics, or related technologies.

Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh.