Power BI Lead Developer (MicroStrategy to Power BI Migration)

The Digital Loom

Website: thedigitalloom.com
Job details:

Title: Power BI MicroStrategy Lead Developer

Mode: Remote, India

Job description

Job Description: MicroStrategy Lead Developer (MicroStrategy to Power BI Migration) Role Title: MicroStrategy Lead Developer Experience: 8+ Years Location: India

Project: MicroStrategy to Power BI Conversion / Modernization Initiative

We are seeking a highly skilled MicroStrategy Lead Developer with strong hands-on experience in enterprise BI implementations and proven expertise in modernizing MicroStrategy environments. The primary responsibility will be to lead and execute the migration of reports, dashboards, semantic layers, and data models from MicroStrategy to Microsoft Power BI.

This role requires a strong technical developer who can independently design, build, optimize, and troubleshoot BI assets while collaborating with business stakeholders, data engineering teams, and Power BI developers.

Key Responsibilities MicroStrategy Expertise

• Develop, enhance, and optimize MicroStrategy schema objects, metrics, prompts, filters, hierarchies, transformations, and security roles.
• Analyze legacy MicroStrategy reports, dashboards, and cubes to assess migration feasibility.
• Perform impact analysis and document functional and technical specifications for migration.
• Work on MicroStrategy Administrator tasks such as object management, metadata updates, and performance tuning. Migration to Power BI
• Lead end-to-end migration of MicroStrategy content to Power BI, including datasets, dataflows, semantic models, reports, and dashboards.
• Translate complex MicroStrategy logic (metrics, VLDB properties, JOINS, filters) to Power BI equivalents (DAX, Power Query M, data modeling).
• Rebuild semantic layers in Power BI using star schema, dimensional modeling, and best practices.
• Optimize Power BI solutions for performance, usability, and scalability.
• Support adoption of Power BI Premium/Pro, workspace setup, governance, RLS, ALM processes.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Guide teams on MicroStrategy design and Power BI rebuilds.
• Work closely with data engineers to align data models and pipelines required for Power BI.
• Communicate progress, risks, and dependencies to project managers and architects.

Required Skills & Experience Core Technical Skills

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in MicroStrategy development.
• Deep knowledge of:

o MicroStrategy Architect, Developer, and Web o Schema objects and metadata design o Cubes, dashboards, and report services o Performance tuning and optimization

• Strong experience in Power BI Desktop, DAX, Power Query, and data modeling.
• Migration experience between BI tools (preferably MicroStrategy → Power BI).

Data & Architecture Skills

• Strong understanding of SQL, data warehouse concepts, star & snowflake schemas.
• Experience with ETL/ELT processes and cloud data platforms (Azure preferred).
• Good knowledge of BI governance, RLS, security modeling, and deployment processes.

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work independently and lead technical workstreams.
• Excellent communication skills to engage with business and technical stakeholders.
• Experience working with distributed teams.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of MicroStrategy SDK or APIs.
• Microsoft Power BI certification (DA-100/PL-300 or equivalent).
• Exposure to Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks.
• Experience automating migrations or documenting BI lineage

Email - abhishek.goswami@thedigitalloom.com

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