Data Engineer (Fabric)

Vaco LLC is hiring a Data Engineer (Fabric) in Cincinnati, OH (onsite) to build end-to-end data and analytics solutions in Microsoft Fabric. If you value reliable reporting foundations and scalable, governed data models, this role focuses on delivering trusted semantic models, KPIs, dashboards, and self-service analytics that teams can confidently use.

Salary: USD 95,000 - 125,000 per year. Experience: 4+ years.

What you’ll do

• 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 dashboards that are visually compelling, easy to use, and built to drive decision making.
• Develop and maintain KPI definitions, calculations, and business metrics, including standardized enterprise metric governance.
• Optimize report performance, usability, and adoption, including testing, validation, and user acceptance activities.
• Implement row-level security (RLS) and object-level security (OLS) aligned to data governance standards.
• Build scalable Power BI semantic models using dimensional modeling best practices, including star schemas, fact tables, dimensions, hierarchies, measures, and calculation groups.
• Create complex DAX measures and reusable business logic, promoting dataset reuse to reduce duplication across reporting assets.
• Support self-service analytics initiatives through certified datasets and reusable semantic models.
• Manage analytics delivery via deployment pipelines and lifecycle management.
• Develop and maintain Fabric capabilities including Dataflows Gen2, Data Pipelines, Lakehouses, and Warehouses.
• Implement ELT/ETL processes to ingest data from ERP, POS, operational systems, APIs, and cloud sources.
• Apply medallion architecture principles (Bronze, Silver, Gold) to structure data layers.
• Optimize data refresh, transformation, and storage performance.
• Support data quality, lineage, metadata, and governance initiatives, collaborating with platform administration and infrastructure teams on Fabric best practices.

What you’ll bring

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

Tools you’ll use

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