Senior Power BI Engineer/Databricks - Immediate Start

Senior Power BI Engineer Greenfield Trading Project

• London, UK (Hybrid)
• Trading/Financial Services
• £600 £750 per day (Inside IR35)
• 12 Month Contract
• Immediate Start

Templeton & Partners are urgently hiring a Senior Power BI Engineer for a high impact greenfield programme within a leading Trading & Financial Services organisation. This is a rare opportunity to shape a brand new BI environment and work directly with Front Office trading teams.

We re looking for someone highly technical, confident engaging with senior stakeholders, and able to lead a small BI team while staying fully hands on.

Role Overview

As the Senior Power BI Engineer, you will design and deliver dashboards, semantic models, and reporting solutions from scratch. you'll act as a BI Subject Matter Expert, collaborating with traders and senior business stakeholders to turn complex requirements into scalable, high performance BI products.

This role is ideal for applicants who enjoy ownership, autonomy, and building solutions in a fast paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a small BI team while remaining hands on
• Design, build, and optimise Power BI dashboards, semantic models, and reporting solutions
• Work closely with traders and senior stakeholders to gather and translate requirements
• Act as SME across BI, modelling, and reporting best practices
• Support design and development of data solutions and moderately complex applications
• Drive process improvements, performance optimisation, and BI governance
• Independently manage workload and prioritisation in a fast moving trading environment

Key Skills:

• Microsoft Power BI
• SQL
• Data Modelling

BI & Reporting

• Power BI development
• Advanced DAX
• Power BI Service
• Data visualisation
• Tabular Editor
• DAX Studio
• Measure Killer

Data Modelling & Architecture

• Semantic modelling
• Star schema design
• Enterprise semantic models

Databases & Platforms

• Snowflake
• Azure Databricks

Data Engineering & ETL

• ETL processes
• DBT
• IBM Data Manager

DevOps & Governance

• GitHub
• Version control
• CI/CD
• License management
• Capacity optimisation

Nice to Have (Not Essential)

• Microsoft Dynamics CRM
• Intermediate Python
• JavaScript

Whats in it for you?

• Greenfield project with real influence from day one
• High visibility within Front Office trading
• Opportunity to build BI architecture from scratch
• Fast paced, hands on environment
• Work with cutting edge data tools and platforms
• Immediate start available

How to Apply

If you re a Senior Power BI Engineer who wants to make a measurable impact in a trading environment, please apply with your CV or contact me directly for more details.