Sr. BI Engineer

Role and responsibilities

Role purpose:

As a Senior BI Engineer, you will play a key role in enabling data-driven decision-making by designing, developing, and maintaining robust BI solutions. You’ll be part of a team currently working with SQL Server and MSBI tools, Snowflake Data Cloud, Azure Data Pipelines, and Power BI semantic models

You will:

• Collaborate with business stakeholders from Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Operations to gather BI requirements.
• Develop and optimize reports, dashboards, and visualizations that deliver actionable insights.
• Build and maintain ETL/ELT processes, supporting the transition from legacy systems to modern cloud platforms.
• Work closely with data architects, engineers, and data scientists to ensure data quality, consistency, and availability.
• Translate complex data into simple visual stories that support strategic decision-making.
• Contribute to the design of a scalable and maintainable BI architecture.
• Support data governance and documentation practices to ensure transparency and reproducibility.
• Stay current with BI trends and help evaluate new tools or technologies that align with our future data platform vision

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain BI solutions using the Snowflake Data Cloud and related technologies.
• Gather and analyze business requirements in collaboration with departmental stakeholders to translate them into scalable BI solutions.
• Support solution architects by designing efficient data models and reusable data products tailored to business needs.
• Interpret business data to uncover trends, patterns, and actionable insights—present findings through effective storytelling and visualizations.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers to ensure robust data pipelines, data warehousing solutions, and efficient ETL/ELT processes.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt Snowflake BI features, staying updated with emerging trends and best practices.
• Work closely with cross-functional IT teams to ensure the reliability, performance, and security of BI infrastructure.
• Maintain compliance with Hydro’s Quality System, HSE (Health, Safety & Environment) regulations, policies, and standard operating procedures.
• Fulfill additional responsibilities assigned by leadership that support the smooth operation of the BI unit and are within legal and policy frameworks.
• Ensure adherence to area-specific customer requirements and data governance standards

Required experience, qualification and skills

Work experience

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in Business Intelligence development, with a strong focus on data visualization and dashboarding using Power BI.
• Demonstrated business analyst mindset, with the ability to interpret and translate business requirements into actionable data models and products.
• Proven experience working with SQL-based databases for data querying, transformation, and reporting.
• Experience with Snowflake or other cloud-based data warehouse platforms is highly desirable.
• Exposure to or prior experience in the manufacturing domain is considered a strong advantage

Education, specific skills

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related technical field.
• Fluency in English (spoken and written) is mandatory for collaboration across global teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a detail-oriented mindset.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to interact with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team in a dynamic, evolving environment

Expected skills, expected soft-skills, competencies

Technical Skills

• Strong expertise in SQL, ETL processes, and data modelling.
• Hands-on experience with designing and developing Tabular models, ideally using Power BI semantic models.
• Proficiency with data warehousing and integration technologies, such as Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, or AWS.
• Familiarity with BI solution architectures, including best practices for performance optimization and scalability.
• Experience in migrating from traditional BI tools (e.g., SSAS cubes) to modern cloud-based platforms like Snowflake and Power BI.

Leadership & Analytical Competence

• Proven ability to lead BI initiatives, set development standards, and guide teams through complex project lifecycles.
• Demonstrated strength in solving analytical problems by leveraging both domain knowledge and technical acumen.
• Ability to translate business questions into data-driven insights and actionable recommendations.

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present technical topics to non-
• technical audiences.
• Strong interpersonal skills for effective collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Self-motivated and proactive, capable of working independently and managing multiple
• priorities.
• Adaptable, with a continuous learning mindset in evolving technology landscapes.
• Commitment to quality, attention to detail, and adherence to deadlines under pressure.

What we offer you

• Working at the world’s only fully integrated aluminum and leading renewable energy company
• Diverse, global teams
• Flexible work environment/home office
• We provide you the freedom to be creative and to learn from experts
• Possibility to grow with the company, gain new certificates
• Attractive benefit package