BI Developer at Vertical Bridge

<div class="content-intro"><p> <span class="fontstyle0">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. </span><span class="fontstyle0">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.</span><br></p></div><p><strong>Summary:&nbsp; </strong></p> <p>The BI Developer role goes beyond building dashboards.&nbsp; 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.</p> <p><strong>Job Functions:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>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</li> <li>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</li> <li>Partner with data engineers to align Delta table structures, aggregations, and business logic to support scalable self-service analytics</li> <li>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</li> <li>Demonstrate the ability to analyze complex situations, identify issues, and propose effective solutions to meet and exceed business requirements</li> <li>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</li> <li>Implements strong quality assurance processes to maintain high standards of software quality, reliability, and performance upon delivery by the team.</li> </ul> <p><em>These job functions are representative of tasks accomplished by incumbents.&nbsp; The list is not exhaustive; incumbents perform other job-related tasks.</em></p> <p><strong>Supervisory Responsibilities:&nbsp; </strong></p> <p>None</p> <p><strong>Working Conditions and Physical Demands:&nbsp; </strong></p> <p>Position will work directly from the corporate office with minimum travel.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong><strong>Education and Experience:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.</li> <li>5+ years of experience in business analytics and BI development, with a demonstrated ability to translate business problems into analytical solutions.</li> <li>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)</li> <li>Proven experience designing and maintaining a governed semantic layer or enterprise metrics framework.</li> <li>Experience driving self-service analytics adoption, including training and change management with business stakeholders.</li> <li>Proficiency in SQL and working knowledge of Python for exploratory analysis and statistical insight.</li> <li>Experience with Power BI Service administration, including workspace governance, deployment pipelines, and capacity management.</li> <li>Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with demonstrable statistical thinking ability.</li> <li>Excellent communication and storytelling abilities — able to present data narratives clearly to all levels of the organization.</li> <li>Experience with Azure cloud services, particularly Azure Databricks and related components.</li> <li>Knowledge of data integration and ETL processes using Apache Spark.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><em>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</em></p></div>