Senior Developer - Power BI

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Date: 21 Aug 2025

Location: Melbourne, VIC, AU, 3000

Company: Origin Energy Services Ltd

  • Full time permanent opportunity | CBD Location 
  • Bridging data and decision gap with intuitive, actionable insights using PowerBI 
  • Drive smarter decisions and uplift reporting maturity across business

 

Join a team that's All Kinds of Useful

 

At Origin, being useful is more than a tagline - it’s how we approach work every day. As a collective, we’re a team that thrives on finding better ways, working together, and owning our impact. From powering homes to delivering award-winning internet and helping to lead Australia’s energy transition. If you’re driven by purpose and excited to be part of something bigger, we’d love to have you on the journey.

 

 

About the role:  
 

As a Senior Developer, you’ll play a key role in turning complex data into clear, engaging dashboards and reports that drive smarter decisions across the business.  

 

You’ll work closely with stakeholders to design user-friendly, high-performing solutions, applying your expertise in Power BI, DAX, and semantic  modelling with a strong eye for visual design.  

 

This is a great opportunity to shape how insights are delivered, uplift reporting maturity, and make a real impact across the organisation. 

 

Roles & Responsibilities 

 

  • Engage with stakeholders to gather reporting requirements, demonstrate prototypes, and deliver training or walkthroughs. 

  • Design, develop, and maintain Power BI reports, dashboards, and data models, ensuring alignment with business objectives and best practices in data storytelling. 

  • Collaborate within agile delivery teams, actively contributing to sprint planning, backlog refinement, and reviews. 

  • Optimise data models and report performance, applying techniques such as star schema design, DAX optimisation, Power Query transformations, and performance tuning. 

  • Integrate and manage multiple data sources (e.g. Databricks, Excel, APIs) while ensuring security, governance, and compliance through practices like Row Level Security (RLS). 

  • Drive continuous improvement by identifying automation opportunities, uplifting self-service reporting, and sharing knowledge on Power BI features and visualisation trends. 

  • Mentor and support junior analysts and citizen developers, fostering capability uplift across the organisation’s data and analytics community. 

 

 

Skills & Requirements 

  • 5-7+ years’ experience in business intelligence, data visualisation, or reporting within complex, data-rich organisations. 

  • Proven expertise in Power BI (Desktop & Service), including semantic model development, report development, deployment, workspace management, and content sharing. 

  • Advanced skills in SQL, DAX and Power Query (M) for complex calculations, data cleansing, and transformation. 

  • Strong understanding of relational data modelling and semantic model best practices, with exposure to modern data platforms such as Databricks (desirable). 

  • Experience in agile delivery environments, collaborating with business stakeholders to refine reporting needs and deliver actionable insights. 

  • Ability to apply UX and design best practices to create user-friendly, engaging dashboards for executive and operational audiences. 

  • Strong communication and documentation skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and ensure governance compliance (e.g. RLS, access management). 

  • Hands on experience on GitHub on PowerBI is highly desirable 

 

Origin - Where good change happens

 

At Origin, we’re powered by people who believe in creating change.


We are committed to fostering a diverse, gender equitable workforce, where everyone is welcome, and all applications are evaluated on merit and potential. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people living with disabilities, culturally diverse people, any stage in life, people with intersex variations and people within LGBTQ+ communities, including trans and gender diverse. 
 

Enjoy a challenging career in an exciting industry where you can grow and explore your potential. If you think you have transferable skills, an appetite to learn and would be a great fit, we’d love to hear from you. 


Here's a little about us: https://www.originenergy.com.au/about/careers/

 

Background checks may be required to determine your suitability for this position as part of the recruitment process and during your employment. These checks may include police checks, AusCheck, medical assessment and/or drug and alcohol testing.

 

Please note unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be accepted.

 

Origin recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia, and we pay our respects to Elders past, present and future.