Principal Analytics Consultant (Power BI)

phData

10d•Remote

About The Position

phData is seeking a Principal Analytics Consultant specializing in Power BI to lead complex analytics engagements and help clients realize measurable value from their data. The role combines deep Power BI expertise with consulting judgment, executive presence, and delivery leadership. The consultant guides clients from strategy and discovery through solution design, development, deployment, governance, and adoption, translating ambiguous business needs into scalable analytics products that support better decisions and sustainable data practices. The consultant works with client executives, business stakeholders, technical teams, account leaders, and phData consultants. The role also helps shape Power BI delivery standards, reusable accelerators, enterprise adoption approaches, and the growth of the Analytics practice. phData describes itself as a remote-first data and AI consultancy with employees across the United States, Latin America, and India.

Requirements

At least 7 years of relevant experience delivering data analytics, business intelligence, or data visualization solutions in an enterprise environment.
At least 3 years of external consulting experience, including ownership of client-facing analytics projects or workstreams from kickoff through completion.
Experience leading complex delivery teams or workstreams and mentoring consultants or technical practitioners.
Experience contributing to delivery planning, estimates, staffing, utilization, budgets, proposals, or practice development.
Demonstrated expertise designing and delivering enterprise Power BI solutions, including semantic modeling, report and dashboard development, DAX, Power Query, data visualization, and performance optimization.
Strong SQL skills and experience with cloud data warehouses, data marts, lakehouses, semantic models, and analytical data structures.
Experience with Power BI Service administration and enterprise enablement, including workspace strategy, security roles, access management, deployment practices, platform configuration, governance, and adoption.
Strong understanding of analytics architecture, data modeling, metric definition, visualization design, usability, scalability, and maintainability.
Ability to translate ambiguous business needs into clear analytical requirements and communicate recommendations, tradeoffs, risks, and dependencies to technical and executive stakeholders.
Exceptional customer-facing communication, facilitation, project leadership, and stakeholder-management skills.
Strong problem-solving skills and enthusiasm for learning and applying new technologies, techniques, and procedures.

Nice To Haves

Experience scaling Power BI across an enterprise, including governance, operating models, adoption, performance, platform optimization, and change enablement.
Microsoft Power BI certification, such as Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate.
Experience with Power Automate, Power Apps, Copilot Studio, Snowflake, Tableau, Sigma, Alteryx, KNIME, Matillion, Dataiku, Coalesce, or similar modern data and analytics technologies.
Experience developing reusable accelerators, frameworks, templates, enablement materials, or internal points of view.
Experience contributing to solution estimates, proposals, discovery activities, and consulting practice growth.
Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing senior client stakeholders through complex transformation or modernization initiatives.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end Power BI engagements and workstreams, from planning and discovery through requirements, prototyping, development, testing, deployment, enablement, and adoption.
Establish technical approaches, solution architecture, backlogs, delivery sequences, and quality standards for scalable Power BI solutions.
Design and develop Power BI semantic models, reports, dashboards, data products, and self-service analytics experiences that are intuitive, performant, governed, and aligned with business outcomes.
Apply dimensional modeling, DAX, Power Query, SQL, data visualization, metric definition, and performance optimization practices.
Connect Power BI solutions to enterprise data warehouses, data marts, lakehouses, semantic models, and other analytical data structures.
Lead client discovery and working sessions to clarify needs, define analytical requirements, align stakeholders, surface tradeoffs, and drive decisions.
Advise clients on Power BI governance and operating models, including workspace strategy, security, access management, deployment practices, platform administration, adoption, and performance.
Review and improve existing reports, semantic models, platform configurations, and deployment practices to identify opportunities for optimization, standardization, and scale.
Manage client expectations through communication, status reporting, feedback loops, risk management, escalation, and alignment on decisions and dependencies.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to consultants and delivery teams, establishing quality standards for usability, maintainability, and client value.
Contribute to staffing, utilization, delivery planning, workstream budgets, estimates, and overall project performance.
Partner with account and practice leaders on discovery, proposals, solution shaping, estimates, and expansion opportunities.
Develop reusable Power BI accelerators, frameworks, templates, enablement materials, and points of view.
Support backlog development and ongoing enhancement of analytics solutions after implementation.