The BI Report Developer Lead leads the team of Power BI report developers who build the reports and dashboards used by stakeholders across the Inspire Brands portfolio, including Dunkin’, Arby’s, Sonic, Jimmy John’s, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Baskin Robbins. The Lead is both a hands on report builder and the manager and mentor of the team, setting the technical bar for what good looks like in Power BI at Inspire.
This role plans the team’s work, partners with the data modeling team and business stakeholders, and is accountable for the quality, performance, and on time delivery of the reports the team produces. The team’s reports support more than 22,000 restaurants, so reliability, accuracy, and ease of use are non negotiable. Day to day, the Lead reviews team members’ DAX and visual work, gives feedback, unblocks people, and personally owns the most complex or high visibility reports.
The Lead is responsible for hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development of the report developers on the team. The Lead represents the team in conversations with senior leadership and the brands, and translates business priorities into a clear backlog of work for the developers. Success is measured by the adoption of the reports the team produces, the development of the people on the team, and the quality of the decisions those reports help our brands and franchisees make.
This position reports to the Senior Director of Business Intelligence.
Responsibilites
Lead the team of Power BI report developers, including planning their work, prioritizing across brands, and balancing ad hoc requests with longer term initiatives.
Manage the developers on the team day to day, including one on ones, performance feedback, growth plans, and career development conversations.
Mentor team members on Power BI craft, including report design, DAX, performance tuning, and stakeholder communication.
Review team members’ work before release, providing feedback that improves both the report and the developer.
Build the most complex, sensitive, or high visibility Power BI reports yourself, setting an example for the team’s quality bar.
Partner with the data modeling team and business stakeholders to align on requirements, semantic model changes, and report scope.
Set and maintain team standards for visual design, naming, documentation, row level security, and deployment.
Own the team’s intake process, prioritization, and delivery commitments, and be accountable for what the team ships.
Hire new report developers and onboard them onto the team, the tools, and Inspire’s data landscape.
Communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs to the Senior Director of Business Intelligence and to senior business stakeholders.
Monitor adoption, performance, and quality of the team’s reports, and drive improvements where the data shows they are needed.
Stay current on Power BI features, share useful capabilities with the team, and decide when to bring new techniques into the team’s standard practice.
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS or ABILITIES
Minimum: 7+ years of Power BI report development experience, with at least 1 year leading or formally mentoring other developers.
Preferred: 10+ years of BI experience, including prior time as a manager or team lead in a multi brand, retail, restaurant, or franchise setting.
Deep DAX skills, including time intelligence, advanced filter context, calculation groups, and performance tuning.
Proven ability to give clear, kind, and useful feedback to other developers on their work.
Solid SQL skills, with the ability to read complex queries, profile sources, and validate report numbers against the underlying data.
Experience setting and maintaining technical standards, code review practices, and team conventions.
Strong eye for visual design, including layout, color, typography, and the principles of effective data visualization.
Comfort with people leadership tasks, including one on ones, performance reviews, growth plans, and difficult conversations.
Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to brief executives, demo work, and document what was built.
Strong prioritization skills, with the ability to make tradeoffs across brands and competing requests.
Familiarity with row level security, workspace governance, and Power BI administration at a team scale.
Inspire is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,300 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants worldwide. We’re made up of some of the world’s most iconic restaurant brands, but we’re much more than just a restaurant company. We’re a team of hundreds of thousands who individually and collectively are changing the way people eat, drink, and gather around the table. We know that food is much more than a staple—it’s an experience. At Inspire, that’s our purpose: to ignite and nourish flavorful experiences.
Inspire Brands is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,000 Arby's, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin', Jimmy John's, and SONIC restaurants worldwide.
