Data Engineer Senior Application Development Analyst

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Idaho Power located in the vibrant community of Boise Idaho is seeking a motivated Senior Data Engineer to join our Information Technology team. Its an exciting time to work for Idaho Power. Our work plays a critical role in communities we serve across Idaho and Oregon and were working hard to provide our customers with the safe reliable and affordable energy they depend on.

What does a Senior Data Engineer do for us

The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for designing building and maintaining scalable data solutions that translate complex business processes into a properly structured medallion architecture (bronze silver and gold layers). Leveraging tooling within Microsoft Synapse Microsoft Fabric and Power BI the engineer develops robust data pipelines integrates data from diverse sources and ensures high data quality consistency and performance across each stage of data refinement. This role requires strong expertise in data modeling and transformation practices including dimensional modeling techniques enabling the progression of raw data into curated business-ready datasets that support efficient analytics and self-service BI across the organization.

The Senior Data Engineer collaborates closely with business stakeholders analysts and data scientists to understand analytics needs and transform them into optimized data models and semantic layers. They utilize modern Microsoft data platform capabilitiesincluding dataflows notebooks pipelines and lakehouse/warehouse architecturesto deliver reliable and scalable solutions. Additionally the role involves performance tuning data governance Source Control and continuous improvement of data processes to enable accurate timely insights through Power BI dashboards and enterprise reporting solutions.

In addition to the meaningful work we do we offer work-life balance competitive pay and benefits an employee incentive plan and both a 401k employer-match and a pension plan making Idaho Power one of the best employers in the state.

A COMPETITIVE CANDIDATE WILL HAVE

Knowledge of:

• Extract Transform and Load (ETL/ELT) processes and tools such as Azure Data Factory / Synapse Pipelines Microsoft Fabric Data Pipelines Power BI Dataflows Gen2 Power Query etc.
• Medallion architecture design patterns (bronze silver gold) and lakehouse/warehouse concepts
• Relational and distributed data systems including dimensional modeling and semantic layer design
• BI visualization and reporting tools primarily Power BI including dataset modeling and performance optimization
• Azure and Microsoft analytics ecosystem including Azure Synapse and Microsoft Fabric
• Data governance lineage and security concepts within modern data platforms
• Enterprise solution development practices and tools (Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines Agile/Kanban methodologies)

Skills in:

• Strong SQL development for data transformation and optimization
• Experience with Python and/or Spark for data engineering workloads
• Data modeling for analytics including transforming curated data into business-ready structures
• Power BI development including data modeling Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) and visualization best practices
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement
• Problem solving troubleshooting and root cause analysis in complex data environments
• Organization and prioritization across multiple data initiatives

Ability to:

• Work proactively in a collaborative team environment with minimal supervision while owning deliverables end-to-end
• Translate complex business processes into scalable data solutions within a medallion architecture framework
• Adapt quickly to evolving technologies within the Microsoft data ecosystem
• Learn and understand business domains to align data models with organizational needs
• Think critically diagnose issues across distributed systems and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Be resourceful resilient and continuously improve data processes and platform performance

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education/Experience:

• BS in Computer Science and 3 years of directly relevant experience and/or formal targeted hands-on training

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• 7 years of directly relevant experience and/or formal targeted hands-on training

Licenses & Certifications:

• Project Management and/or programming language certification desirable

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
This position requires working at a desk/computer for extended periods of time. It requires the use of office equipment fine motor skills including typing on the computer dialing phones filing paper and working in close proximity to other people. There may be occasional lifts of no more than 10 lbs. The above is a summary of the primary essential functions of the position. This job may require the performance of additional tasks assigned by company leaders or management. Questions regarding job requirements or accommodation requests should be directed to Human Resources.

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