DevOps Engineer, BI

Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.  

KONE’s vision is to create the Best People Flow experience by providing ease, effectiveness and experience to our customers and users. In line with our strategy, Sustainable Success with Customers, we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners, KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.

KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI) is where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.

KONE IT is a global team of expert professionals working along with business functions and area teams to develop new capabilities and enable new business opportunities. We are trusted partners of KONE business lines and functions to develop, transform, manage and run their information technology solutions. We support KONE in its digital transformation journey by introducing e.g. digital cloud-based IT services, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to support productivity, business growth and technological disruption. ​​​​​​​Sustainability, curious mindset and innovation are at the core of everything we do, and this makes us an integral part of KONE’s success.

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About the role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Developer, Business Intelligence (BI) to join our Business Intelligence team in Chennai/Pune.  

This role is instrumental in advancing our business intelligence capabilities and supporting strategic decision-making across key business functions.

The successful candidate will contribute to high-quality BI solutions, collaborate closely with Product owner, Lead developer, data engineering and product stakeholders, and ensure maintainable, scalable BI assets.

Mid-to-Senior — capable of working independently, challenging assumptions when needed, and turning business requirements into well-structured technical deliverables.

Main responsibilities 

BI Solution Development & Reporting

• Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports, and semantic models.

• Build, refine, and optimize lakehouse tables and transformations needed for reporting.

• Ensure semantic models follow best practices for performance, usability, and maintainability.

• Review existing dashboards and code to ensure consistency, quality, and adherence to development patterns.

Data Modelling & Performance Optimization

• Collaborate with data engineers to align BI models with backend data structures.

• Identify data-quality issues early in the pipeline and escalate appropriately.

• Contribute to designing robust and scalable data models supporting evolving business needs.

• Optimize semantic data models to improve report performance and responsiveness.

• Design and manage complex semantic models involving very large datasets, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and maintainability.

Deployment & CI/CD Practices

• Work with Git-based development workflows, branching strategies, and version-controlled BI artifacts.

• Participate in CI/CD pipelines for BI deployments, ensuring smooth release readiness and documentation.

• Support automated validation, packaging, and deployment of BI assets where applicable

Collaboration & Ways of Working

• Work directly with the BI Product Owner, Lead developer, Data engineer  and business stakeholders to clarify requirements before development begins.

• Actively participate in Scrum or Kanban workflows, ensuring work items are properly captured, documented, and updated in Jira.

• Communicate proactively—raising blockers, risks, and design concerns early.

• Contribute to iterative delivery, focusing on incremental value rather than large one-off deliveries.

• Conduct code reviews and enforce development best practices to ensure solution quality and consistency.

Requirements for the role

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and morden data architectural principles.

• Strong grasp of UX principles in BI design and delivery.

• Hands on experience with Microsoft Power BI, Fabric, DBT and Proficiency with version control systems (e.g., Git).

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

• Proficiency in scripting languages such as SQL, DAX, Python and Power Query.

• Actively exploring and applying AI-assisted capabilities to improve productivity in BI solution development and delivery.

• Working in virtual matrix team with outstanding emotional intelligence skills, able to motivate team, remove the impediment, build excellent collaboration and psychological safe environment, champion for teamwork 

• Self-motivated and proactive with a passion for exploring and mastering new BI technologies.

• Preferred Certifications: PL-300: Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst, DP-600: Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer, DP-605: Develop Reports with Power BI

• We expect the selected candidate to be flexible and available to work in rotational shifts, including both morning and afternoon schedules, as per business requirements.

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

Read more on https://careers.kone.com/en/