BI Engineer (Power BI & Microsoft Fabric)

Our D&A journey has resulted in something we are proud of: a centralized, state-of-the-art Microsoft Fabric and Power BI architecture, grounded in standardization, governance, security, and best practices across data engineering, modelling, and dashboarding.

This role is about the next chapter. We are in the early stages of onboarding new use cases onto the platform and are looking for someone who can grasp the fundamentals of our set-up and put them to use: engaging stakeholders, building trusted relationships, understanding the needs behind requests, developing and delivering scalable productionized data products, driving adoption, and making end-user reporting more efficient.

Day to day, you will:

• Collaborate closely with stakeholders across the bank, gathering business requirements by understanding their analytical needs;
• Translate business requirements into centralized, sustainable, and scalable BI solutions;
• Assess, maintain, and improve local Power BI solutions across the bank, including legacy data models and dashboards, by centralizing and aligning them with established Microsoft Fabric and BI standards where needed;
• Migrate SAP Business Objects solutions to Power BI/Fabric;
• Design, develop, and maintain semantic models, dashboards, and self-service analytics solutions aligned with our Microsoft Fabric and Power BI principles and standards, including workspace administration, app publishing, deployment pipelines, access management, and content lifecycle management;
• Act as a trusted advisor within the BI community by mentoring and coaching business users on Microsoft Fabric and Power BI best practices;
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of our BI landscape, governance, security, and development standards by ensuring Power BI and Fabric solutions are secure, compliant, and aligned with NIBC's established development practices, including DTAP, user acceptance testing, and CI/CD deployment processes.

Your team You will join our Data & Analytics department, where versatile (T-profiled), highly engaged professionals with strong technical backgrounds all work toward a single goal: reaping the dividend of the bank's asset data. Moving quickly, embracing challenges, and smiling in the face of adversity is simply in our nature.

The BI team owns and manages the Power BI and Fabric platform across the organization. As part of this team, you will support and guide data-savvy users across the bank in solving complex challenges and bringing their products to production.

• Minimum 4 years of proven experience as a BI Engineer, Power BI Developer, Business Intelligence Specialist, or similar role, with strong expertise in Power BI, including:
• o Semantic modelling and dimensional modelling
• o SQL, Python, and advanced DAX programming
• o Data visualization and dashboard design
• o Self-service BI enablement
• o Power BI Service administration and management, including workspace management, app publishing, deployment pipelines and rules, access management, and content lifecycle management
• Solid understanding of Microsoft Fabric fundamentals, architecture, components, and artefacts such as Dataflow Gen2 for data ingestion, Pipelines for data orchestration, Python/PySpark Notebooks for data transformations, and OneLake security;
• Experience using Microsoft Fabric to build and extend data and reporting products within an established enterprise architecture;
• Proven ability to translate broad business objectives into tangible, scalable BI deliverables while balancing stakeholder expectations, priorities, and technical feasibility;
• Proven experience managing stakeholders and delivering BI initiatives across multiple business domains;
• Experience mentoring, coaching, and supporting both technical and non-technical business users in adopting Power BI and Fabric;
• Experience working with BI governance frameworks, development standards, security principles, and controlled delivery processes;
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and operating within established incident, problem, and change management processes.

Nice to have

• Experience within banking, financial services, or another regulated industry;
• Knowledge of SAP Business Objects;
• Familiarity with data governance standards;
• Knowledge of the integration of Generative AI and its applications within BI, analytics, and self-service reporting.

Personal skills

• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to navigate multiple projects, priorities, and stakeholder groups across the organization.
• Keen on mentoring and empowering others.
• Independent worker who also thrives in a collaborative team environment.
• Curious, analytical, and continuously looking for opportunities to improve processes, efficiency, and solution quality.

NIBC is an ambitious environment where together we strive to create a fantastic workplace where you feel safe and challenged to be the best version of yourself. This is in line Professional, Adaptive, Collaborative and Entrepreneurial, since you are in the lead of setting the PACE of your career at NIBC. In addition, you receive a competitive salary, plus:

• Several ways to support your development personally and professionally, a.o.: personal development budget to spend at your own discretion, professional budget provided by your manager to develop yourself in your work, In-house learning offering;
• NIBC embraces the Hybrid way of Working. This means that we support working from home as well as encourage our colleagues to come to the office. NIBC's guideline is to spend at least half of the working time at the office;
• Travel expenses or NS Business Card 1st class ;
• 32 holidays (which do not have to be registered);
• Excellent pension scheme (26% NIBC contribution);
• A voucher to improve your home office;
• The opportunity to take ownership and show initiative in your role. We are always open to new ideas, and encourage to use your voice;
• The nature of our Grow to Make a Difference program enables you to be in charge of your own development;
• Two staff associations: YoungNIBC and MyLeisure;
• Vitality program, annual company-wide sports & leisure days;
• Monthly internet allowance

What makes the BI team special is its people. We are a complementary multicultural team where team results come before individual results, and we take pride in going above and beyond in what we deliver. Between the geek talk, you will find us swapping stories about life, especially over our team lunches. We are looking for someone who can match our curiosity and passion. NIBC as an IT employer NIBC IT consists out of several domains and together NIBC IT aims to be one of the driving forces behind the digital transformation of our bank, an ongoing process that will profoundly change the relationship with our clients and the way we do business. We are closely connected and have short lines of communication. If you have a good idea today, you may be elaborating it tomorrow. IT is forever changing and so is NIBC and in order for us to be able to keep on changing, we need sophisticated individuals to help us lead the bank into the future. NIBC as organization Founded in 1945 to finance the visionary entrepreneurs who helped rebuilding the Netherlands after the second World War, NIBC was closely collaborating while professionally supporting companies and individuals in realizing their dreams and goals with a sustainable future in mind. As a multicultural midsize bank with a working environment that is best described as dynamic and ambitious, we share a forward-thinking, can-do attitude with our employees and clients which we call our THINK YES mentality. Our corporate values are Professional, Adaptive, Collaborative and Entrepreneurial. You will have a direct and meaningful impact on both the bank and its clients. By building our company on optimism and mutual trust, and with our THINK YES mentality, NIBC is an enterprising bank that enables ambitions.