Semantic Model Developer

Data Strategy & design

Finance, Legal & Global Solutions

Denmark, Bagsværd

Are you passionate about data and technology? Do you enjoy applying best practices to design and build enterprise-grade data models? Do you love collaborating with your colleagues and stakeholders bringing them along your own professional development? If so, we would like to hear from you.

Your new role

As a BI Developer with the key focus on Fabric semantic models, you'll own the design and delivery of semantic models that enable finance teams to explore, understand, and act on data with confidence. Working with our team, you'll transform data into structured, business-ready semantic models using Microsoft Fabric—creating the foundation for dashboards, reports, and ad-hoc analyses across the global Finance organization.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

- Developing, maintaining, and owning datasets for self-service reporting and analytics using Microsoft Fabric

- Collaborating closely with Finance teams to capture requirements and ensure models accurately reflect business logic and core finance processes

- Translating business requirements into technical solutions that deliver measurable value, working alongside product owners, analysts, and architects

- Enabling and supporting business consumers in using semantic models effectively for dashboards, reporting, and ad-hoc analyses

- Applying best practices in data modelling such as star schema and semantic layer design to create user-friendly data products

- Ensuring data quality, governance, security, and compliance across all semantic models

- Working in cross-functional team to deliver high-quality, production-ready solutions

Your new department

You'll join a department, where we deliver a robust and scalable data foundation that enables the global Finance organization to operate efficiently and make insight-driven decisions. Our Finance Data Centre brings together solution architects, developers, analysts, and data engineers from diverse technical and multinational backgrounds. Together, we design, build, and maintain data solutions that support core finance processes—with collaboration, business focus, and technical excellence at the heart of how we work. Our overarching goal is to use data to gain new understandings, drive optimizations, and create true business value for Finance, Novo Nordisk, and ultimately the patients we serve.

In Finance, Legal & Global Solutions, we enable Novo Nordisk to fulfil our purpose by safeguarding the business, providing corporate infrastructure, and driving value creation. We are a team of 2,300 colleagues primarily based at our headquarters in Denmark and our Global Business Services centres in India and Mexico.

Your skills & qualifications

We're looking for someone with strong technical expertise in semantic modelling and a genuine curiosity about finance data and processes. You will work in cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality, production-ready solutions. You will furthermore collaborate with product owners, analysts and architects to translate business requirements into technical solutions that deliver measurable business value. Hence, bringing a collaborative mindset, understanding the business we support and engaging with stakeholders is a prerequisite. You'll thrive in this role if you bring:

- Proven experience building semantic models in Microsoft Fabric (or other BI-centric environments)

- Strong understanding of data modelling concepts, star schemas, and semantic layer best practices

- Proficiency in SQL and familiarity with data transformation tools  within Fabric or DataBricks.

- Knowledge of Power BI, DAX, Tabular Editor, or other front-end reporting tools

- Experience collaborating with business stakeholders to design user-friendly data products

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate finance needs into technical solutions

- A collaborative mindset and willingness to work in agile, cross-functional teams

- Strong quality and delivery focus, with the ability to produce robust, production-ready solutions

- Commitment to data governance, security, and compliance

- Fluent spoken and written English

Nice to have:

- Experience working in a regulated industry or financial organization

- Interest in or understanding core finance processes such as accounting and consolidation

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease. 

Deadline

24 May 2026

Please note that we will be assessing applications as we go, so we recommend applying as soon as possible.

Please apply in English and refrain from adding a photo to your CV to ensure fair and efficient processing. We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all applicants.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.