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Ajay Kumar Deekonda
Last position:
Senior BI and Analytics Engineer at Novartis
- Led enterprise reporting modernization by migrating legacy SSRS reporting solutions to Power BI, supporting 500+ business users while ensuring full GDPR/DSGVO compliance.
- Designed and optimized Power BI and Microsoft Fabric semantic models using star schema, dimensional modeling, advanced DAX, and performance optimization techniques, reducing query latency by 25%.
- Delivered 20+ executive and operational dashboards featuring KPI scorecards, drill-through, bookmarks, and row-level security, improving reporting efficiency by 20%.
- Enabled self-service analytics through governed Power BI datasets, dataflows, and gateway architecture, increasing business-led reporting adoption by 35%.
- Configured an incremental refresh policy and query folding for a 50+ million row sales dataset, reducing daily report refresh times by 85%.
- Deployed automated ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, and Snowflake, reducing reporting delivery timelines by 40% through workflow automation.
- Spearheaded Microsoft Fabric analytics modernization initiatives including lakehouse architecture, OneLake integration, and centralized data platform development, reducing data latency from 2 hours to 20 minutes.
- Translated business requirements from 15+ stakeholders into scalable Power BI semantic models and dashboards, improving reporting consistency and reducing ad-hoc reporting requests by 25%.
- Applied Microsoft Copilot and generative AI tools to accelerate SQL development, DAX authoring, technical documentation, and testing activities, reducing development effort by approximately 15 hours per week.
Hervé Teguim
Last position:
Senior Data Engineer at Schweizerische Post AG
Tools: Fabric, AWS, dbt, Power BI, SQL, DWH, R, Python
- Supported customers in implementing an architecture design for extracting and preparing data
- Planned the design and implementation of the BI and DWH platform
- Ensured the scalability and performance of the data platform
Oleg Orlov
Last position:
Senior Software Developer / BI Integration Developer Power BI, C# at Telecommunications
Embedded Analytics & AI-assisted BI
Design and development of an integrated analytics solution based on ASP.NET Core, Power BI Embedded, and LLM services to provide contextual business information.
Development of an AI agent with Function/Tool Calling for secure orchestration of REST APIs, SQL data sources, and technical services within defined business processes.
Build-up of automated BI workflows including workspace management, deployment processes, and scheduled refresh via the Power BI REST API.
Implementation of secure service-to-service communication with Microsoft Entra ID and service principal, as well as integration into existing enterprise system landscapes.
Technologies: ASP.NET Core, C#/.NET, Power BI Embedded, Power BI REST API, LLM API, AI Agents, Function/Tool Calling, Entra ID
Carsten Feichtinger
Last position:
Interim Controller / Knowledge Transfer at Medium-sized manufacturing company in the construction industry, existing client
Focus areas: knowledge transfer, reporting, cost analysis Tasks
- Ensure knowledge transfer from the outgoing controller
- Document key controlling processes
- Operational controlling (cash flow planning, reporting)
- Simplify the cost center structure to improve cost analysis Results
- Transparent knowledge transfer and sustainable documentation of controlling processes
- Improved cost analysis and more efficient reporting
Anshita Srivastava
Last position:
Business Intelligence Developer and Data Analyst at Deloitte Consulting
Specialize in turning complex data from diverse environments into actionable business value through compelling visual storytelling. I am an expert in generating actionable insights and presenting recommendations to business stakeholders. My technical proficiency in SQL, Python, and leading data visualization tools like Tableau and Power BI allows me to deliver a new generation of self-service tools and analytics services.
- Data Visualization & Storytelling: Created impactful data visualizations and dashboards in Tableau and Power BI, effectively communicating findings and presenting actionable recommendations to C-suite stakeholders and business leaders.
- Stakeholder Management: Built effective working relationships with key business stakeholders, data engineers, and other partners to achieve common data-driven goals and targets.
- Insights & Recommendations: Generated actionable insights from complex data analysis for funnel conversion, marketing performance, and ROI, directly influencing business performance and strategy.
- Data Collaboration & Empowerment: Worked closely with cross-functional teams to support the ongoing data needs of internal partners, helping to optimize internal data processes and workflows.
- BI & Data Expertise: Applied extensive experience in data modeling, data collection, data mining, and analysis to deliver end-to-end analytical solutions from stakeholder discovery to production.
Any-Arlene Niyubahwe
Last position:
Co-Founder · Data Engineering & Backend at zirikana (Kirundi Bible Web App) – Civic Technology
- Built a Python pipeline that converts lectionary web content into structured daily JSON, applying liturgical-calendar rules for accurate weekday and Sunday coverage.
- Shipped a read-only FastAPI REST API with shared Pydantic models and delivered a Kirundi-first web client for browser and mobile use.
- Owned the data layer and backend architecture, collaborating closely on system architecture and interfaces while automating refreshes with GitHub Actions and validating the ETL with pytest.
- Impact: Created a reliable, API-driven source of truth for daily Bible readings in Kirundi, enabling consistent access to previously unstructured content.
Guido Klein
Last position:
NOBILIS Group GmbH
- Support during SSRS implementation, including training employees on SSRS
Pierre-Jean Albertini-Fujii
Last position:
Verification Engineer – Aviation at Tri.Merge GmbH
- Automated Python-based analysis of test script repositories
- Built a SQLite database for signal and value tracking
- Identified critical discrepancies with ad-hoc SQL queries
- Technologies: Python, SQLite, Excel/ODBC
William Nguyen
Last position:
Senior Business Analyst/Requirements Engineer at Finanzen.Net/Finanzen.Zero
- Analysis of complex business processes and end-to-end user journeys in digital product and platform environments
- Gathering, structuring, and prioritizing business and technical requirements (Functional / Non-Functional Requirements)
- Translating business goals into actionable requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
- Conducting stakeholder interviews, workshops, and reviews with business teams, IT, UX, and management
- Creating and maintaining requirement artifacts (BRD, FRD, user stories, process models, decision papers)
- Ensuring consistency between business needs, technical implementation, and product vision
- Close collaboration with development teams to clarify business questions during implementation
- Support with impact analyses (A/B tests), change requests, and scope management
- Quality assurance of implemented requirements including acceptance criteria and business testing
- Advising on the further development of product strategy and roadmap structure
- Prioritizing backlog items based on business value
- Defining and sharpening product goals, KPIs, MVP definition, and other success metrics
- Evaluating new features, tools, and initiatives from a user and business perspective
- Facilitating decision-making between business, product, and technology
- Supporting go-to-market considerations and product positioning
- Sparring partner for product and stakeholder decisions at management level
- Dashboard creation, data modeling, BI report administration, and data analysis in Power BI
Michael Ternes
Last position:
ETL Developer at Insurance service provider
DWH for customer and financial data
- Extension of the DWH with new data sources
- Report development
- Data quality management
Methodology: Scrum
Tools: Atlassian Confluence & Jira
Databases: Microsoft SQL Server
Programming languages: SQL, T-SQL
ETL: Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Frontend platform: PowerBI, Microsoft Reporting Services
Archana Ravikumar
Last position:
Power BI Assistant at Cataliquent Projekt GmbH
- Evaluate, design, and implement Power BI solutions for Cat4 reporting, significantly improving reporting efficiency, accuracy, and stakeholder visibility.
- Develop and maintain robust data integration interfaces between Cat4 and Power BI, eliminating manual processing bottlenecks.
- Configure and continuously optimise Power BI reports to deliver sharper management insights and support data-driven decision-making.
- Ensure full GDPR data protection compliance across Power BI reports, proactively identifying and mitigating risks.
- Acquired in-depth product knowledge of CAT4, a globally deployed enterprise platform, enabling effective requirements analysis, solution design, and seamless Power BI integration across client environments.
- Developed and integrated scalable reporting templates within the CAT4 product interface, delivering new product features and enhancing data visualisation, reporting efficiency, and stakeholder visibility across global users.
- Trained and mentored staff on Power BI configuration and best practices, accelerating adoption and embedding a data-driven culture.
- Prepared clear technical documentation and delivered hands-on demonstrations to end users and clients, ensuring smooth adoption and confident use of Power BI solutions integrated with CAT4.
- Researched and recommended licensing strategies for cost-effective and scalable Power BI deployment.
SKILLS - BI & Visualisation: Power BI (Desktop, Service, Report Builder), DAX, Power Query
Project and Product Management Tool: CAT4
Mirza Avdibegovic
Last position:
Consultant Data Warehouse at InfoFabrik GmbH
- Data Management of Oracle based Data Warehouse
- Operational monitoring of DWH
- ETL Processes in Oracle SQL
- Consulting in reporting and DWH development
- Developing Dynamic List, Grid, Jxls, Pivot Reports in Report Server
- Data visualization in Report Server
Benedikt Ruske
Last position:
Power BI developer at Mechanical Engineering (SME 500 emp.)
- KPI dashboards for inventory and goods received quality control & testing ETL, dataset, dataflows and report development, complex DAX solutions
Data sources: Dataverse, RDB, Excel
Tools: ETL, data modeling, data flows, Power Query, M, Power BI, complex DAX
- Capacity: 25%
Burak Güzel
Last position:
BI Consultant TM1 at Accantec GmbH
Project description: Design and step-by-step implementation of a central, multidimensional controlling platform based on IBM Planning Analytics to optimize and automate internal company planning and reporting.
Business & technical consulting: Analyzed the provided operational base data and proactively advised the controlling team on cube design best practices and optimal dimension structures.
Data integration & ETL: Designed and developed robust TurboIntegrator processes for automated data loading, transformation, and dimension maintenance.
Logic & business implementation: Implemented complex business logic and calculations with high performance using TM1 business rules (including efficient skipping/feeding).
Development of a Python HTTPS server to integrate an input widget in IBM PAW, enabling direct data write-back to TM1 cubes via the TM1 REST API.
Reporting & analytics: Created dynamic, user-friendly reports and dashboards for management and specialist departments.
Mario Techera
Last position:
Project Lead/Manager / Consultant at all-BI GmbH
- Establishing the Microsoft Fabric platform with the company as the central data warehouse and reporting system.
- The company migrated several operational systems including D365 to new version. The new data warehouse is based on a Fabric/Power BI architecture with Azure cloud Entra Authentication.
Tasks Performed:
- Full administrative responsibility for the Fabric platform F64 and F32 capacities, as well as two F8 capacities for development and prototyping.
- Integration of Fabric with Microsoft Entra.
- Data modeling for the data warehouse bronze, silver and gold layers using data modeling tools.
- Star Schema as well as entity relationship modeling.
- Data modeling for data marts and for dimensional modeling and Power BI (semantic model).
- Design of data models for Microsoft SSAS multidimensional and tabular OLAP cubes using DAX and MDX.
- Definition of design patterns for the ETL team for loading OLAP cubes (Tabular and MD), star schemas and data vault structures.
- Planning and managing team of 4 ETL and reporting developers.
- Performance Tuning of Power BI reports, particularly the semantic layer, as well as the Fabric notebooks
- SQL Performance Tuning.
- DB Design for Azure SQL.
- Reporting directly to project senior management.
Label: Power BI, Fabric, Analysis Services (multidimensional and tabular), D365, SSIS, Tabular Editor, SQL Server and Azure SQL, TOAD Data Modeler, DBSchema, Visual Studio Code, DAX Studio, SSMS, Visual Studio, Jira and Confluence.
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BI Developers statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
17 years
Position duration
2 years
Positions per freelancer
15
Top business areas
Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
92%
Master's degree or higher
64%
Doctorate
20%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
97%
Based on our profile pool as of 26 Aug 2026.
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Average rates for BI Developers in Germany
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The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
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About the role
What they build
A BI Developer turns raw data into reliable reporting. They design the semantic layer, build dashboards, shape data models and keep business users aligned on what the numbers mean. Typical deliverables include:
- Data warehouse and reporting models
- Power BI, Tableau or Qlik dashboards
- ETL and ELT jobs
- KPI definitions and metric logic
- Documentation for data sources and transformations
Core skills
A strong BI Developer combines data engineering habits with clear business thinking. They write clean SQL, understand star schemas, work with dimensional models and spot data quality issues early. They also know how to translate stakeholder needs into usable reports instead of building charts that look good but answer the wrong question.
- SQL and performance tuning
- Data modelling and dimensional design
- ETL or ELT workflows
- Dashboard design and self-service analytics
- Stakeholder communication
Tools and stacks
The right tool set depends on the environment. Common stacks include Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, SAP BW, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, dbt, Snowflake, SQL Server, Oracle and Databricks. In Germany, BI Developers are often brought into teams that work across ERP, manufacturing, retail, logistics or finance data, where stable reporting and clear governance matter.
When companies hire one
Companies bring in a freelance BI Developer when reporting is slow, inconsistent or too dependent on one internal person. They are useful for new warehouse builds, migration projects, dashboard clean-up, KPI redesign and short-term demand peaks. A freelance BI developer also fits well when a company needs hands-on support before a permanent team is ready.
What good looks like
Strong professionals do more than build visuals. They ask where the data comes from, how often it changes and who trusts it. They document logic, test results and keep reports maintainable so other analysts and developers can work with them later. The best BI engineers are calm under pressure and careful with definitions.
Collaboration in Germany
In Germany, BI Developers often work with finance, operations, controlling and IT at the same time. Some projects need on-site workshops for requirements and access, while the build and testing can often happen remotely. Good language skills help when teams must align on business terms, data definitions and report ownership.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with BI Developers? These answers cover the essentials.
A BI Developer builds the reporting layer that turns source data into usable business information. That usually means data models, ETL or ELT logic, dashboards, KPI definitions and fixes for broken reports. The exact scope depends on whether the company needs help with analysis, warehouse design or front-end reporting.
A strong BI Developer knows SQL, data modelling and the tools used in the company’s stack. They should be able to work with Power BI, Tableau, Qlik or SAP BW when relevant, and they must understand how to test data quality and keep definitions consistent. Just as important is the ability to talk to business users without losing the technical detail.
A BI Developer focuses on the systems behind the reporting, not only on interpreting the numbers. Data analysts usually work more on insight, ad hoc analysis and business questions, while BI developers build the models, pipelines and dashboards those analyses depend on. In many teams the two roles work closely, but the day-to-day tasks are different.
A freelance business intelligence developer makes sense when the need is project-based, urgent or tied to a specific platform change. That can be a warehouse migration, a dashboard rebuild, a reporting backlog or temporary cover for an internal gap. If the company needs steady long-term ownership of the BI landscape, a permanent hire may be the better fit.
Most BI Developers work in SQL-heavy environments with tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, SAP BW, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, dbt or Snowflake. The right mix depends on whether the company runs on Microsoft, SAP, cloud data platforms or a mixed stack. A good freelancer adapts quickly instead of forcing one preferred tool into every project.
Yes, many BI Developers can work remotely, especially when access, source systems and requirements are already clear. In Germany, however, workshops and stakeholder sessions are often easier when there is at least some overlap in time zone and language. On-site support can still be useful at the start of a project or during testing and handover.
Look for clear examples of how the BI developer handled data models, reporting logic and stakeholder changes. Good candidates can explain trade-offs, name the tools they used and describe how they tested accuracy and performance. Strong portfolio evidence is usually a working dashboard, a clean model or a well-structured reporting solution rather than just a list of tools.
A BI engineer should ask where the data comes from, who owns each source and which KPI definitions are already agreed. They also need to know the target tool, access process, refresh logic, security rules and who approves the final reports. Clear answers at the start prevent rewrites later and make delivery much smoother.
The average hourly rate for BI Developers in Germany is 101 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 806 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as BI Developers in Germany, 92% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 64% hold at least a Master's degree, and 20% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers working as BI Developers in Germany have 17 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers working as BI Developers in Germany are German (100%), English (97%), and Spanish (26%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as BI Developers in Germany are Information Technology (82%), Manufacturing (56%), and Professional Services (56%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as BI Developers in Germany are Business Intelligence (97%), Information Technology (94%), and Project Management (62%).
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