PrincipalDataEngineer(DeliveryEngineering-DTC)

Although we're an apparel and footwear-focused company, technology is central to everything we do. Columbia Sportswear’s Digital Technology (CDT) group enables an IT infrastructure across four global brands, a global supply chain, and 500+ geographically dispersed stores. These teams support in-store, mobile, and data platforms to enhance customer interface and service in an ever-evolving industry. The Principal Data Engineer – BI is a senior technical leader within Columbia Sportswear’s Global Capability Center (GCC) and Data & Analytics organization. This role is accountable for the architecture, governance, and long-term evolution of enterprise Power BI semantic models that power trusted analytics across Commercial, Supply Chain, and enterprise business domains. The Principal Data Engineer – BI operates at an enterprise scale—defining modeling standards, performance patterns, and best practices that are adopted across teams. This role serves as the technical authority for BI semantic modeling, ensuring that Power BI models are scalable, performant, intuitive, and aligned with upstream data engineering and downstream analytics needs. **HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE** **Power BI Semantic Modeling (Primary Focus)** * Own the enterprise strategy and technical vision for BI semantic models, supporting Commercial, Supply Chain, and corporate analytics use cases. * Design and govern shared, reusable, and conformed semantic model layers that enable consistent analytics across domains and business functions. * Establish and enforce enterprise semantic modeling standards, encompassing dimensional modeling, DAX measures and calculation patterns, performance tuning and troubleshooting, and consistent design, naming, documentation, and reusability practices to ensure accurate, scalable, high‑performance self‑service analytics. * Lead design reviews for high‑impact semantic models, influencing BI architecture decisions and ensuring alignment with enterprise data and analytics s