Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ferguson is a Fortune 500 company providing best-in-class products and services across multiple industries. The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for designing and developing complex semantic models and scalable reporting solutions, ensuring that the delivered solutions meet performance, quality, and maintainability standards while providing technical guidance to other developers.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop complex Power BI semantic models and scalable reporting solutions leveraging curated Databricks Lakehouse layers (Silver/Gold) and enterprise data sources
- Write advanced SQL (including Databricks SQL) and DAX to implement complex business logic, standardized calculations, and reusable metrics
- Architect and maintain shared semantic models and datasets that enable consistent, scalable, and reusable analytics across reporting solutions
- Apply advanced modeling techniques including calculation groups and complex dimensional structures aligned to Lakehouse-based data design
- Diagnose and resolve performance issues across Databricks and Power BI, including query optimization, model efficiency, refresh performance, and data volume management
- Collaborate with data engineering teams to define and consume curated Gold-layer datasets, ensuring alignment with reporting and analytics requirements
- Refactor existing reports and datasets to transition from isolated imports to governed semantic models built on Databricks-backed data products
- Implement and enforce dataset governance practices including certification, documentation, lineage awareness, and metric standardization
- Develop and validate data quality checks across Silver and Gold layers, identifying and addressing upstream data issues
- Design and implement automated analytical workflows integrating Power BI, Python, Databricks, and the Power Platform
- Build forecasting, trend analysis, and statistical models supporting advanced and predictive analytics use cases
- Perform code reviews and provide technical guidance to Associate developers, ensuring adherence to modeling, DAX, and reporting standards
- Design semantic models optimized for AI-drive querying, ensuring datasets include standardized metrics, well defined relationships & rich metadata
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or equivalent experience
- Advanced expertise in SQL & DAX
- 3–6 years of Power BI development experience
- Experience working with modern data platforms such as Databricks and querying data using Databricks SQL
- Understanding of Lakehouse architecture concepts, including Bronze, Silver, and Gold data layers
- Experience integrating Databricks data with Power BI semantic models (Import and DirectQuery)
- Familiarity with distributed data processing concepts and performance considerations for large-scale datasets
- Experience using Python or R for predictive analytics & statistical modeling
- Proven ability to design performant & scalable datasets
- Experience tuning DAX, model relationships, & refresh performance
- Strong ownership mindset for solution quality & stability
- Design semantic models optimized for AI-drive querying, ensuring datasets include standardized metrics, well defined relationships & rich metadata
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, paid time off, life insurance and a 401(k) with a company match
- Mental health coverage
- Gender affirming and family building benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Associate discounts
- Community involvement opportunities
- Bonus or Incentive Plan eligible
Company Overview
Since 1953, Ferguson has been a leading source of quality supplies for a variety of industries. It was founded in 1953, and is headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.ferguson.com/.