Senior Consultant - Power BI&A

Responsibilities

• Conduct customer discovery meetings to determine reporting requirements
• Understand and work with customer on Power BI Licensing, and understand the limits/advantages of each licensing platform
• Create well performing star schema data models for use with Power BI, including proper calculated columns and measures
• Creating Power BI solutions for customers including importing data from multiple sources, building reports and dashboards, and creating appropriate data elements using DAX and source queries
• Guide customers on deploying Power BI solutions to the Power BI service (Gateways, DirectQuery, DataFlows, Data Updates)

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer, engineering, data science or a related field; or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years working with data and business intelligence solutions on the Microsoft tool stack for Business Intelligence (SSRS, Power BI, or PowerPivot (Excel) or PerformancePoint), or other vendor Business Intelligence tools (Business Objects, MicroStrategy, Qlik, SAP)
• Working knowledge of TSQL, data modeling, reporting using Power BI or other Microsoft tools
• Experience creating complete Power BI report solutions based on business questions with linked content, drilldowns, and nested parameters
• Dynamic measure designs using advanced DAX techniques
• Knowledge of data mashups and transformations using Power Query/M language
• Utilize Databricks platform to develop, implement, and optimize data pipelines and workflows.
• Ability to report visual choices and visual interactions
• Design, develop and implement user interfaces to ensure ease of use and minimal knowledge by the functional work group that will be using the database
• Ability to gather requirements and conduct focus groups to determine the processes needed to assist and grow the business

Professional Skills:

• Eagerness to contribute in a team-oriented environment
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills for both technical and nontechnical teams
• Passionate about learning new technologies
• Analytical approach to problem-solving; ability to use technology to solve business problems
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Additional Preferred Experience:

• Power BI tenant and workspace management to support development, testing and deployment
• Experience with analytics and custom visualizations for Power BI using Python, R
• Advanced SQL including some query tuning
• Experience in the identification of data quality
• Experience deploying Power BI solutions to the Power BI Report Server (on-premises)
• Experience deploying Power BI solutions using Power BI Embedded
• Deploying cloud-based solutions using Microsoft Azure data services including Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, and Azure SQL DB

Additional Details:

• Work arrangement: Remote with equipment provided
• Work schedule: 5PM - 2AM Monday - Friday

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