Power BI developer with 6 years of experience building enterprise reports and semantic models for finance and operations teams. Delivered a Fabric-based financial reporting suite that shortened month-end close reporting from 5 days to 1. Expert in DAX, data modeling, performance tuning and Power BI governance.
Experience
Power BI Developer, Keystone Building Products (Philadelphia, PA)
Jun 2022 – Present
Delivered a Microsoft Fabric financial reporting suite of 18 reports, cutting close reporting from 5 days to 1
Designed certified semantic models with calculation groups, reused by 35 report authors across the company
Tuned DAX and composite models, reducing the P&L report load time from 45 seconds to 4
Set workspace, deployment pipeline and row-level security standards for 900 Power BI users
Reporting Developer, Delaware Valley Logistics (Wilmington, DE)
May 2020 – May 2022
Built 30 Power BI reports on warehouse productivity and freight costs
Replaced SSRS subscriptions with paginated reports, retiring 2 legacy servers
IT Reporting Co-op, Schuylkill Valley Hospital IT (Philadelphia, PA)
Apr 2018 – Sep 2018
Built Excel and SQL reports on help desk ticket volume for a hospital IT department
Education
B.S. in Information Systems, Drexel University (Sep 2015 – Jun 2020)
Skills
Power BI: DAX, Power Query (M), calculation groups, paginated reports, RLS
Microsoft Fabric: lakehouses, dataflows Gen2, deployment pipelines
Data: SQL Server, star-schema modeling, Tabular Editor, DAX Studio
Certifications: PL-300 Power BI Data Analyst Associate, DP-600 Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
How to write a Power BI Developer resume
A strong Power BI Developer resume shows the questions you answered, the models or pipelines you shipped, and the decisions your analysis changed. Put your most relevant recent role first and make every bullet show a result, not a duty.
Sections, in order
Summary
Experience
Projects
Skills
Education
Length: One page for most candidates; move to two only if every line is relevant.
Summary: Write two or three lines: your role, your strongest skills, and one result that proves them.
Skills to feature
SQL
Python or R
Statistics
Machine learning
Data modeling
dbt and ELT pipelines
BI tools (Looker, Tableau, Power BI)
Experiment design
Data visualization
Stakeholder communication
Example bullet points
Built a churn model (gradient boosting, AUC 0.86) that targeted retention offers and saved $900k a year
Rebuilt the revenue dashboard on dbt and Looker, cutting refresh time from 6 hours to 20 minutes
Designed 25 A/B tests with sequential analysis, shortening the average test from 4 weeks to 10 days
Tips from recruiters
Pair every technique with the decision it informed; "built a model" alone says little.
List tools under grouped skills ("Analytics: SQL, dbt, Looker") so ATS keyword matches are exact.
Link a notebook, Kaggle profile or public analysis if you have one.
Recommended templates
Classic (ATS-friendly): Jake's-style LaTeX classic: small caps and hairline rules
Modern (ATS-friendly): Clean single column with accent headings and rules
Compact (ATS-friendly): Dense single column that fits long histories
Power BI Developer resume FAQ
What should a Power BI Developer resume include?
A Power BI Developer resume should show the questions you answered, the models or pipelines you shipped, and the decisions your analysis changed. Use these sections in this order: Summary, Experience, Projects, Skills and Education. Put your most relevant recent role first and make every bullet show a result, not a duty.
What is the best resume template for a Power BI Developer?
Classic, Modern and Compact work well for Power BI Developer roles. They are single-column with standard headings, so applicant tracking systems (ATS) parse them reliably.
How long should a Power BI Developer resume be?
One page for most candidates; move to two only if every line is relevant.
Which skills should a Power BI Developer put on a resume?
Prioritize the skills named in the job posting. Common ones for Power BI Developer roles are SQL, Python or R, Statistics, Machine learning, Data modeling and dbt and ELT pipelines.
How do I write strong Power BI Developer resume bullet points?
Start with an action verb, say what you did, and end with a measurable result such as forecast accuracy, revenue impact and query time. For example: "Built a churn model (gradient boosting, AUC 0.86) that targeted retention offers and saved $900k a year."