BI Developer

BI Developer

Delray Beach, Florida, United States

Vertical Bridge REIT, LLC, is the largest private owner and operator of wireless communications infrastructure in the United States and has a nationwide portfolio of over 18,000 towers. The company provides build-to-suit and colocation solutions to the telecommunications industry. In 2020, Vertical Bridge became the first tower company in the world to achieve the CarbonNeutral® company certified status and has been recertified every year since.

The BI Developer role goes beyond building dashboards. It is responsible for transforming how Vertical Bridge consumes, understands, and acts on data. They will build, design and deliver analytics solutions across the Power BI and Databricks AI/BI platforms. These solutions will drive strategic decisions, enable self-service intelligence, and shift the organization from reactive reporting to proactive insight. The ideal candidate serves as both a business translator and technical architect. This role requires strong foundations in data modeling, DAX, M Query, and semantic layer design, as well as hands-on experience with Databricks AI/BI Dashboards, Genie-powered conversational analytics, and self-service enablement. You will partner closely with data engineers to build a governed, enterprise-wide data model (one version of truth) that allows all users to read from the same data playbook.

Job Functions:

• Design and present data narratives that drive decision-making as well as build dashboards and reports that tell a clear story with a defined call to action
• Engage directly with operations, finance, leasing, and executive stakeholders to identify the right metrics and proactively retires or replaces solutions that are no longer answering the right question
• Design and maintain a governed, enterprise-wide semantic layer — a single source of truth that serves both Power BI reports and Genie conversational queries consistently
• Partner with data engineers to align Delta table structures, aggregations, and business logic to support scalable self-service analytics
• Provide technical guidance and support to the data teams, making architectural decisions, resolving technical challenges, and ensuring adherence to best practices and standards across both Power BI and Databricks AI/BI
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze complex situations, identify issues, and propose effective solutions to meet and exceed business requirements
• Apply statistical thinking and exploratory analysis techniques using Python, and SQL in Databricks notebooks. Identifies trends, anomalies, and correlations that traditional dashboards would not surface
• Implements strong quality assurance processes to maintain high standards of software quality, reliability, and performance upon delivery by the team.

These job functions are representative of tasks accomplished by incumbents. The list is not exhaustive; incumbents perform other job-related tasks.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Working Conditions and Physical Demands: Position will work directly from the corporate office with minimum travel.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in business analytics and BI development, with a demonstrated ability to translate business problems into analytical solutions.
• Demonstrated experience with Power BI (M Query, DAX, Data Modelling, and Row-Level Security (RLS)), Microsoft Copilot and/or Databricks AI/BI Dashboards, and Genie for conversational analytics (Certifications a plus)
• Proven experience designing and maintaining a governed semantic layer or enterprise metrics framework.
• Experience driving self-service analytics adoption, including training and change management with business stakeholders.
• Proficiency in SQL and working knowledge of Python for exploratory analysis and statistical insight.
• Experience with Power BI Service administration, including workspace governance, deployment pipelines, and capacity management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with demonstrable statistical thinking ability.
• Excellent communication and storytelling abilities — able to present data narratives clearly to all levels of the organization.
• Experience with Azure cloud services, particularly Azure Databricks and related components.
• Knowledge of data integration and ETL processes using Apache Spark.

Vertical Bridge is committed to a policy of equal employment and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee. Vertical Bridge is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V