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Christian P.
Last position:
Power BI Developer & Consultant in an Agile Team (SAFe) at DB InfraGO AG
Further Development of the Integrated Capacity Management Platform InKa
Rail Infrastructure
- Power BI shared datasets and reports via DirectQuery on Amazon Redshift (timetable, construction and capacity data)
- Automated report testing with Playwright in Docker containers, version control with GitLab
- Concept and implementation of user communication (information page, changelog, known bugs)
Initial Situation:
The integrated capacity management platform (InKa) is a monitoring and analysis platform for data from timetable and capacity management: customer orders, infrastructure, timetable operations, construction, as well as route capacity and width. The data is stored and linked in a structured data warehouse. This makes it possible to create complex KPIs across different source systems and display current and future route utilization as well as construction activity across the network. The goal is to improve strategic, medium-term and intra-year planning and provide users with easy access to capacity management analyses.
Measures:
- Enablement: Introduction of Power BI with training and workshops for development teams.
- Consulting & Design: Problem analysis, concepts and solution consulting for reporting requirements; implementation of reporting solution plans.
- Data Model: Development of shared datasets with DirectQuery on Amazon Redshift and import tables; DAX measures for utilization and capacity KPIs.
- Development: Data analysis, data transformation and visualization in Power BI; extension and migration of business applications to Power BI; AI-supported development in VS Code with GitHub Copilot.
- Test Automation: Automated testing of Power BI reports with Playwright; setup of the test environment in Docker containers.
- User Communication: Concept and implementation of a central information page with hot news, changelog and known bugs, access from reports with report filters, updates via Power Automate.
- Deployment: Management of Power BI Deployment Pipelines across the DEV, TEST and PROD environments.
- Agile Working: Work in an agile team according to SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework); refinement of user stories and features including effort estimates in Jira; version control with Git and GitLab.
- Quality & Documentation: Reviews for quality assurance, error analysis and resolution, technical documentation in AsciiDoc and Confluence.
Technologies: Power BI, DAX, Power Query, DirectQuery, Amazon Redshift, Git / GitLab, Deployment Pipelines, Playwright, Docker, AsciiDoc, Power Automate, Jira, Confluence, VS Code with GitHub Copilot, SAFe
Results:
- Capacity management KPIs from multiple source systems combined on one platform
- Transparency regarding current and future route utilization and construction activity across the network
- Easy access to analyses for users
- Automated regression testing of Power BI reports
- User communication implemented: central information page with hot news, changelog and known bugs, directly accessible from the reports
Umut G.
Last position:
Data Architect at BA Technology
I am an experienced data engineer specializing in end‑to‑end data integration, cloud DWH architectures, and high‑quality, governed data products.
I delivered following projects and engagements as a freelancer.
- Data Migration of CRM System for AL-FA Objekt Service Gmbh
- Microsoft Software Resales Partnership
I am looking for freelance roles like: Freelance Data Engineer Cloud Data Warehouse Architect Data Modeling & Architecture Consultant MDM & Data Governance Specialist BI & Analytics Developer
Technical Focus Areas
- Data Engineering & Integration: SQL Server/SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter/IDQ, Talend, Kafka, Azure Data Factory – Delta/CDC/ELT patterns, robust pipelines, monitoring/recovery, data lineage & impact analysis, medallion architecture Bronze/Silver/Gold layers
- DWH & Cloud: Azure SQL / Data Lake / Synapse, AWS Redshift/S3, on‑prem SQL/Oracle – scalable data marts with a strong cost/benefit focus.
- Data Modeling: Atomic (Inmon) and Dimensional (Kimball), Data Vault (Linstedt), Domain‑Driven Design, clear lineage & contracts.
- MDM & Governance: Informatica MDM, IBM MDM, stewardship processes, data quality rules, survivorship/XREF, catalog/glossary, SIF/BES/REST publication.
- Analytics/BI: Power BI, SSAS, Cognos – business‑ready, maintainable data products.
Stefan O.
Last position:
Founder at ProtocolEngine.io
Evidence-led health intelligence platform turning published research into personal health protocols. It scores 430 habits, foods, and supplements against the studies behind them, and moves the score when the evidence moves. Built solo.
- Built the daily ingestion pipeline across PubMed, bioRxiv, and medRxiv: 43,000+ papers from 3,400+ journals processed into 230,000+ typed evidence claims, each one traceable back to the study it came from.
- Designed the six-factor evidence scoring model and the public changelog behind it, so no recommendation ever appears without the papers underneath it. 23,000+ grade changes recorded and explained to date.
- Shipped an entity information model connecting every intervention to its mechanisms, biomarkers, and outcomes: 118 biomarkers with region-specific reference ranges, 77 mechanisms, 32 graded outcomes.
- Built the personalisation layer: blood panel ingestion that reads lab PDFs with a vision model and corrects results for draw time against the user's wake anchor, plus Oura, WHOOP, and Withings integration for daily readiness context.
- Operate eleven specialised review agents over the corpus and codebase, covering paper curation, retrieval quality, health-claim compliance across EU and US regimes, and security.
- Shipped the Evidence Assistant, a RAG assistant that answers from the claim database and cites the underlying papers, plus a B2B practitioner tier, an Expo React Native app, and localisation across 3 languages and 7 markets.
Stack: Next.js 16, TypeScript, Supabase, pgvector, Anthropic Claude, Vercel, DeepInfra.
Muhammad Y.
Last position:
SynQ × AutoStore
- Enterprise WMS customisation for Albert Heijn and EDEKA.
- Owned end-to-end test planning, automation, and performance validation for logistics automation software serving high-volume grocery warehouse operations.
Alexander B.
Last position:
Senior Data Engineer at RWE AG
Architected and maintained data products for renewable energy operations, covering wind turbine, grid-meter, and weather data. Built scalable ETL/ELT pipelines in Azure Databricks using Delta Lake (bronze/silver/gold layers) and processed data in various formats, including structured and semi-structured data. Contributed to a data quality framework supporting table and column documentation, outlier detection, and completeness metrics across all datasets within a data product. In addition, implemented a DORA KPI Databricks dashboard used across all data products. Optimized CI/CD processes in Azure DevOps to streamline deployment across development, test, and production environments.
Technology stack: Azure Databricks, PySpark, SQL, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Azure Data Lake, APIs, Dremio, Azure DevOps, YAML, Git, Databricks Workflows, Application Insights, Terraform, OpenAI API, Codex, LLM-assisted workflows
Thomas G.
Last position:
Senior .NET / Cloud Engineer at Freelance
Building an observability and alerting solution for Business Central Job Queue Monitoring
- Built a central monitoring solution to monitor the Business Central Job Queue in a multi-organization environment in Azure DevOps
- Integrated Azure Application Insights and Log Analytics for the structured collection and analysis of job runtimes and error events
- Developed KQL queries for targeted analysis of failed jobs and detection of error patterns
- Connected Grafana and Power BI to visualize operational metrics and job statuses in real time
- Implemented an automated alerting workflow with Power Automate – an email notification is triggered immediately when a job fails
- Ensured transparency into the status of productive background processes during ongoing operations
Result: Full transparency into failed Business Central jobs · Significant reduction in response time through automated email alerting · Stable foundation for the proactive operation of productive background processes
Technologies: Azure DevOps | Application Insights | Log Analytics | KQL | Grafana | Power Automate | Power BI | Business Central | Azure Monitor
Olga M.
Last position:
Migration of the existing DWH from MS SQL Server to Azure Databricks at Oraylis GmbH
- Led the migration of the existing DWH, including HR data, application processes, project business and time tracking, from an MS SQL Server environment to Azure Databricks
- Refactored existing data models and ETL processes and extended them with new objects and functionalities
- Used Azure Databricks (Unity Catalog, Notebooks, Spark SQL, Databricks Dataflows) and Power BI
- Technologies: MS SQL Server 2019 (SSMS, SSIS), Power BI, Delta Lake, Azure Databricks
Mahboobeh S.
Last position:
Senior Analytics Engineer at Jadoosoft
Engaged as an independent BI consultant for a FinTech SaaS platform, building and maintaining the end-to-end Microsoft Azure and Fabric analytics stack behind a multi-tenant accounting product used by business owners to track their own financial performance.
- Partnered with finance stakeholders to translate complex accounting workflows into real-time BI dashboards (P&L, Cash Flow, Balance Sheet), helping 2000+ business owners track cash flow and overall financial health effortlessly.
- Developed 10+ interactive dashboards, giving each business owner personalized, real-time visibility into their own sales performance, accounts receivable aging, and operational costs.
- Enforced strict enterprise data governance by implementing dynamic Row-Level Security (RLS) via DAX to isolate each business owner's data within the shared multi-tenant model.
- Maintained and extended an Azure ELT pipeline (Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse) that automated data ingestion and transformation.
- Contributed to a team-wide platform migration from Azure to Microsoft Fabric to optimize capacity licensing costs.
- Designed and implemented a Microsoft Fabric ELT pipeline (Lakehouse, Pipelines, PySpark) that automated data ingestion and transformation, replacing the prior Azure pipeline.
- Modeled cleansed data into a Star Schema within the data warehouse using T-SQL, powering the Power BI Semantic Model.
- Leveraged AI tools, including Copilot and Claude, as development partners across the entire ELT pipeline, from data ingestion to KPI reporting and visualization.
- Supported agile delivery processes, using Jira to track development tasks and Confluence to maintain technical and project documentation.
Monika T.
Last position:
Senior ETL Lead at Takeda GmbH
- Led design, development, and deployment of data solutions supporting a major pharma acquisition for Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, delivering transparency reporting systems across Azure,Databricks (Python and Shell Scripting) platforms.
- Owned,Designed and developed scalable ELT pipelines to process Customer and Product data using Azure, complex SQL, Databricks, and shell scripting, enabling efficient data integration and processing across multiple sources including job orchestration and workflow automation.
- Implemented performance optimization techniques (query tuning, parallelism, workload optimization), improving system efficiency and processing time.
- Applied strong analytical and problem-solving skills to assess technical solutions and support business requirements for compliance and transparency reporting.
- Designed scalable data foundations suitable for downstream analytics and AI workloads.
- Led data quality initiatives by assessing multiple source data, defining quality metrics, and establishing processes for monitoring and continuous improvement.
Stefan W.
Last position:
Architect/Software Developer at Global Logistics Support GmbH
Task
- Further development of a new ERP system with Blazor
- Creation of e-invoices with the XRechnung and ZUGFeRD format
- UI/UX design Client-server system
- Windows 11 Technology
- Microsoft .NET 9, Git, Azure DevOps, ASP.NET, MSSQL, Blazor Programming languages
- C#, MVVM Development tools
- Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2022 Database
- MSSQL Industry
- Other
Mirza A.
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
Philipp G.
Last position:
BI-Consultant at accantec information solutions AG
Energy Management (2023-08-01 – today):
Designing a planning solution to increase energy efficiency
Creating a concept for an energy management system
Planning a component for action planning to gradually reduce energy consumption
Evaluating planned measures based on opportunities, risks, and effectiveness for inclusion in the planning process
Designing requirements for a data model to compare planned and actual data in the dashboard
Consulting (2023-05-01 – today):
Extending the accantec PerCon authorization management system to IBM Planning Analytics
Analyzing authorization requirements and comparing them with IBM Cognos Analytics and Tableau
Extending accantec PerCon with IBM Planning Analytics via REST API
Printing (2023-04-01 – today):
Supporting the introduction of a data warehouse solution with IBM Cognos Analytics 11
Supporting the introduction of a reporting system based on a standard data warehouse
Supporting report developers and developing custom controls to optimize the user interface
Healthcare (2020-08-01 – 2023-03-31):
Optimizing, extending, and operating a historically grown BI planning environment
Updating the Jedox solution from version 2019.1 to 2022.2
Optimizing ETL processes and reports, and implementing automated ETL processes
Connecting different accounting and administration systems
Writing completed plans back to source systems and implementing complex allocation logic
Building and maintaining dimensions and hierarchies (corporate structure, P&L)
Developing planning scenarios for FP&A and creating reports to monitor the budget
Designing and implementing new OLAP cubes and reporting
Providing user training according to customer requirements
Industrial Sector (2020-04-01 – 2020-12-31):
Migrating and optimizing an existing Jedox solution
Combining the reporting system and planning system in Jedox
Building a central group reporting system with plan-versus-actual comparisons for FP&A
Optimizing KPI calculations and existing reports, and creating new reports
Creating forecast reports, managing authorizations, and providing user training in an international environment
Finance (2020-05-01 – 2023-03-31):
Further developing and operating an existing Jedox solution
Designing and developing new OLAP cubes for controlling
Building hierarchies in dimensions (e.g. P&L) and updating the Jedox system in a Linux environment
Providing user training on report creation
Trade Fair (2020-06-01 – 2023-03-31):
Designing and developing a BI planning solution in Jedox with a data warehouse structure
Creating ETL processes to load dimensions and OLAP cubes
Building reports and plan-entry forms, and implementing business logic (P&L, allocation logic)
Implementing planning and analysis reports as well as a security concept in Jedox
Industrial Sector (2021-03-01 – 2023-03-31):
Migrating and optimizing an existing Jedox solution
Updating the Jedox solution and migrating ETL processes from Pentaho Kettle to Jedox Integrator
Optimizing SQL queries, analyzing the system, eliminating redundancies, and developing new ETL processes
Analyzing and adapting existing reports
Staffing Services (2022-07-01 – 2022-10-31):
Migrating a Jedox solution from version 5 to 2022.2
Updating the system, adjusting configurations, and analyzing performance issues
Optimizing the OLAP database by streamlining dimensions and removing unused cubes/data
Finance (2021-10-01 – 2022-02-28):
Creating OLAP cubes in Microsoft SSAS
Building dimensions and hierarchies and calculating KPIs with MDX
Supporting users with Power BI requests
Mario T.
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.
Vincent R.
Last position:
Freelancer at VINROTLAB.IO
- Consulting and creation of various web applications based on SharePoint and the React framework for different clients
- Development and testing of accessible apps for SharePoint
- Creation of various test cases for test automation
- Development of various solutions based on Azure
- Creation of various web services based on .NET
- Development of various SharePoint Framework solutions
- Development of various UI solutions based on SharePoint
- Consulting and creation of various Power Apps applications and Power Automate for the steel industry and an IT consulting company
- Support, consulting, and development with offshore teams for SharePoint 2013, 2016, and microservices for a logistics company
- Consulting, concept design, and development of microservices and web applications based on Microsoft technology and the React framework for a logistics company
- Consulting, concept design, and development of various SharePoint Framework solutions on SharePoint 2016 for logistics
- Consulting for the migration from SharePoint 2010 to 2016 for an IT consulting company
Stefan C.
Last position:
SSIS Development at Stadtsparkasse München
- Replacement of a Java application and the Oracle DB for loading the internal WerWasWo system using SSIS.
- Development of SSIS packages to load text files into the database (SQL Server)
- Development of a database project for deployment on various servers
- Creation of queries to monitor the loading runs
- Development of a PowerShell script to automate the deployment of the SSDT projects.
- Oracle, SQL Developer, Microsoft SQL Server 2022 on-premises, SQL Server Management Studio v21, Visual Studio 2022, SSIS, SSDT, PowerShell.
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Statistics of experts using SQL Server Analysis Services
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
19 years

Position duration
2.6 years

Positions per freelancer
14

Top business areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Project Management

Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
88%
Master's degree or higher
61%
Doctorate
6%

Certifications per freelancer
3

Most common languages
German, English, French

Speak two or more languages
95%
Based on our profile pool as of 21 Oct 2026.
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Average rates of experts using SQL Server Analysis Services
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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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Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 21 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
SQL Server Analysis Services experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (90%)
- Banking and Finance (69%)
- Professional Services (60%)
- Manufacturing (48%)
- Retail (40%)
- Automotive (38%)
- Insurance (36%)
- Healthcare (33%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What SSAS does
SQL Server Analysis Services, commonly called SSAS, is Microsoft’s analytical data engine for turning operational data into governed models. It supports tabular and multidimensional models that serve dashboards, reports, planning tools, and self-service analysis. Teams use it to give many users consistent definitions for revenue, margin, inventory, and other business measures.
Models and queries
Tabular models organize data into relational tables, relationships, calculated columns, and DAX measures. Multidimensional models use cubes, dimensions, hierarchies, and MDX for established analytical workloads. Strong specialists choose the model type, storage mode, partitions, and query design that suit data volume, reporting behavior, and security requirements.
Microsoft ecosystem
SSAS often sits within a wider Microsoft data stack. Relevant delivery work can include:
- Connecting SQL Server, Azure SQL, data warehouses, and external sources
- Publishing models for Power BI, Excel, and paginated reporting
- Building ETL flows with SQL Server Integration Services or Azure Data Factory
- Managing deployment through Visual Studio, SSDT, and Analysis Services projects
- Applying DAX, MDX, row-level security, and perspectives
When expertise matters
Companies bring in freelance SSAS expertise when a model is slow, difficult to maintain, or no longer reflects the business. Specialists help replace spreadsheets, migrate multidimensional workloads to tabular models, improve refresh reliability, and establish a clear semantic layer. They can also support a new Power BI estate without duplicating logic across reports.
Delivery and collaboration
A typical engagement covers requirements, source assessment, model design, implementation, testing, deployment, and documentation. Remote work is practical when access, data protection, and release procedures are ready; on-site sessions can help with workshops and stakeholder alignment. Clear communication with data owners, reporting teams, and Microsoft platform specialists remains essential.
Signs of quality
Experienced professionals do more than write DAX. They understand dimensional modeling, query plans, processing strategies, gateways, permissions, and the business meaning behind each measure. Look for evidence of:
- Fast, explainable models with well-designed relationships and measures
- Reliable processing, incremental refresh, and deployment controls
- Secure access using roles, row-level security, and least privilege
- Clear documentation that lets internal teams operate the solution
- Practical validation with representative queries and user workflows
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with SQL Server Analysis Services? These answers cover the essentials.
SQL Server Analysis Services is used to create governed analytical models over business data. These models support Power BI, Excel, reporting tools, planning workflows, and other applications that need consistent measures and fast interactive analysis.
SSAS provides a dedicated enterprise analytical layer that can serve several client tools and applications. Power BI semantic models overlap with its tabular capabilities, while a separate Analysis Services environment may suit organizations that need centralized governance, shared models, or broader non-Power BI access.
SQL Server Analysis Services tabular models are usually a strong fit for modern DAX-based analytics and Power BI integration. Multidimensional models remain relevant when an existing solution depends on cubes, complex hierarchies, or MDX, so the decision should follow workload, skills, migration goals, and compatibility needs.
A capable SSAS professional usually understands SQL, dimensional modeling, data warehousing, and performance tuning. Experience with DAX, MDX, Power BI, SQL Server Integration Services, Azure Data Factory, security, and deployment automation can also be important depending on the engagement.
The required background for SQL Server Analysis Services depends on the scope and risk of the work. A simple model extension may need focused delivery experience, while a migration, security redesign, or performance recovery calls for someone who has handled complex models, processing issues, and production releases.
SSAS projects can often be delivered remotely when specialists receive secure access to data sources, development environments, and deployment workflows. On-site collaboration may still help during discovery, workshops, or governance decisions, especially when several business teams must agree on definitions.
Ask a SQL Server Analysis Services specialist to explain model choices, measure logic, processing behavior, and security boundaries in clear terms. Review documentation, test results, query performance, deployment practices, and whether business users can validate the numbers without relying on hidden report logic.
A SQL Server Analysis Services engagement may deliver a tabular or multidimensional model, DAX or MDX calculations, source connections, partitions, roles, deployment scripts, and technical documentation. The scope can also include migration planning, performance remediation, Power BI integration, and handover to an internal data team.
The average hourly rate of freelancers who have used SQL Server Analysis Services in their recent projects is 101 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 810 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers who have used SQL Server Analysis Services in their recent projects, 88% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 61% hold at least a Master's degree, and 6% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers who have used SQL Server Analysis Services in their recent projects have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.6 years.
The most common languages among freelancers who have used SQL Server Analysis Services in their recent projects are German (100%), English (95%), and French (21%).
The most common industries among freelancers who have used SQL Server Analysis Services in their recent projects are Information Technology (90%), Banking and Finance (69%), and Professional Services (60%).
The most common business areas among freelancers who have used SQL Server Analysis Services in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Business Intelligence (98%), and Project Management (74%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used SQL Server Analysis Services
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