AST SpaceMobile
Data Analyst – Power BI
Midland, Texas, United States · Senior
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About the role
- The role also enforces AST's Power BI Dashboard Development standards - group-based access, service-account connections, row-level security, and complete documentation - and helps scale self-service analytics across the company.
- This job description may not be inclusive to the duties and responsibilities listed.
- Additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time or the scope of the job may change as needed by business demands.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, publish, and maintain Power BI reports, dashboards, and semantic models for the AST & Science Global, AST Leadership, Midland HR, and Midland Manufacturing workspaces.
- Partner with the named Business Owner of each report to gather requirements, define KPIs and metric definitions, and validate data accuracy before anything is published to production.
- Build dimensional (star-schema) data models, DAX measures, and Power Query transformations
- Source and integrate data from Tulip MES, NetSuite ERP, Rippling, SharePoint/Excel, and the enterprise data lake, consuming curated silver and gold layers and working with data engineering on the bronze/silver/gold (medallion) design.
- Implement Row-Level and Object-Level Security (RLS/OLS) based on the ISA-95 scope block (legal entity, site, area, work center) and functional domains, using Microsoft Entra ID security groups only - no individual user access.
- manage gateways and scheduled refresh to remove dependencies on individual user accounts.
- Apply Power BI workspace governance: admin group at creation, role-based workspace access, App-based distribution, and Contributor enablement so trusted business users can build self-service reports from published datasets.
- perform root-cause analysis and work requests through the Enterprise Applications Jira queue.
- Optimize report and model performance (e.g., incremental refresh, query folding, model size reduction) and recommend improvements to the reporting platform.
- Configure data connections with approved service accounts or service principals, with credentials managed in 1Password; manage gateways and scheduled refresh to remove dependencies on individual user accounts.
Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years of experience as a Data Analyst, BI Developer, or similar role, including at least 3 years of hands-on Power BI development in an enterprise environment.
- Experience defining and tracking operational KPIs and translating business questions into measurable, documented metrics.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Statistics, Industrial Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proven experience with Power BI Desktop and Service: data modeling, DAX, Power Query, workspaces, Apps, gateways, scheduled refresh, and RLS.
- write targeted SQL queries that extract only the data required - never full-table loads.
- Education:
- Strong SQL skills (joins, CTEs, window functions, query optimization) against relational databases or data warehouses.
- Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines and integrating data from multiple enterprise systems (ERP, MES, HRIS, SaaS, files).
Nice to have
- Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300)
- Fabric Data Engineer Associate (DP-700) a plus.
- Experience in manufacturing, aerospace, or another regulated production environment
- familiarity with OEE, yield, throughput, and cycle-time reporting.
- Experience with MES and ERP data, especially Tulip and NetSuite.
- Experience with cloud data platforms such as Azure (Data Factory, Data Lake, Azure SQL), Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, or AWS (S3, Glue, Apache Iceberg).
- Experience with service principals / Azure AD app registrations, Power BI deployment pipelines, and Git-based version control.
- Working knowledge of Python for data preparation, automation, or forecasting.
Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with meticulous attention to data accuracy.
- Ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences and present findings clearly to executives.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, DAX, Power Query (M), Power BI Apps and gateways.
- SQL / T-SQL; Python (preferred).
- Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) security groups and service principals; 1Password.
- Microsoft 365 (Excel, Teams, SharePoint), Jira, Visio.
- Ability to work in a standard office environment and use a computer for extended periods.
- Ability to travel occasionally between AST sites as business needs require.
- Technology Stack:
Company info
- Position Overview We are seeking a Data Analyst - Power BI to join the Enterprise Applications Data Team.
- Our engineers and space scientists are on a mission to eliminate the connectivity gaps faced by today's five billion mobile subscribers and finally bring broadband to the billions who remain unconnected.
- We are seeking a Data Analyst - Power BI to join the Enterprise Applications Data Team.
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