[Hiring] Senior Associate, Business Intelligence Engineering @Core Spaces

Role Description

Core Spaces is seeking a Senior Associate, Business Intelligence Engineering to own the reporting and analytics solutions that power decision-making across the business, translating complex data needs into scalable, trusted, and actionable insights. The Senior Associate is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the semantic models, data models, data pipelines, and Power BI solutions that support decision-making across Finance, People Operations, Student Housing, Build-to-Rent, Construction, Marketing, and Investments.

Working across a diverse technology landscape, the Senior Associate must navigate varying source systems, data structures, business definitions, and reporting requirements to deliver consistent and reliable analytics solutions across the business.

Core's analytics platform is built on Azure, Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Power BI, and this role plays a critical part in developing the data foundation that powers business reporting.

What You Will Do

• Own the end-to-end technical delivery of production Power BI reports and dashboards from approved mockups, wireframes, and specifications.
• Serve as a senior technical owner of the Power BI semantic layer.
• Partner with Product Management to validate technical feasibility and confirm data availability.
• Determine the upstream data, modeling approach, and pipeline logic required to support reporting outcomes.
• Translate dashboard intent into the correct Power BI implementation.
• Design, develop, and maintain data ingestion and transformation pipelines using Spark SQL, PySpark, Delta Live Tables, and Databricks Workflows.
• Onboard new source systems into the data platform.
• Implement complex business logic and measure calculations in DAX.
• Investigate, diagnose, and resolve data quality, data integrity, reconciliation, and performance issues.
• Validate reported figures against applicable systems of record before release.
• Optimize report, semantic model, and pipeline performance.
• Manage the Power BI delivery lifecycle across development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Operate independently across concurrent reporting and data engineering initiatives.
• Contribute to documentation, technical standards, reusable patterns, and knowledge sharing.
• Occasional travel may be necessary as needed.
• Perform all other duties and tasks as assigned by management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• 3 or more years of hands-on experience developing production business intelligence and analytics solutions.
• Advanced proficiency in Power BI, DAX, and Power Query (M).
• Deep dimensional modeling experience.
• Strong SQL development skills.
• Working proficiency in PySpark or Python for data transformation.
• Hands-on experience with a modern lakehouse or cloud data platform.
• Experience designing, building, maintaining, and troubleshooting orchestrated data pipelines.
• Demonstrated ability to translate designs, mockups, specifications, and business outcomes into scalable technical solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with limited day-to-day direction.
• Strong attention to detail and a demonstrated commitment to data accuracy.

Requirements

• Experience with Databricks with Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and Delta Live Tables.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric.
• Knowledge of student housing, build-to-rent, multi-family, real estate, or PropTech data.
• Experience with property management, ERP, HRIS, or construction management platforms.
• Understanding of revenue management, pricing, or forecasting analytics.
• Experience working within an Agile delivery process.
• Knowledge of data quality testing frameworks and data pipeline observability practices.

Benefits

• A culture that provides you with a sense of belonging.
• Competitive pay that values your contributions.
• Incentives designed to reward your achievements.
• Paid flexible PTO to disconnect or celebrate life milestones.
• Paid 14+ holidays, including your birthday.
• Paid Parental Leave that begins after 90 days.
• Paid volunteer time off to give back to your community.
• Monthly workshop weeks; fewer meetings & more collaboration.
• Robust health plan options that begin within at least 30 days of your employment.
• Monthly phone reimbursement.
• Wellness allowance and perks, including a yearly subscription to a meditation app.
• An environment that provides you a voice to share your perspectives.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for access to confidential support services.
• Company retirement options including 401(k) + matching & Roth account option.