Functional Consultant – Power BI
insightsoftware
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇧🇮 Burundi
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AzureBigQueryETLMySQLOraclePostgresSQL
About the role
- Engage with business stakeholders to understand their reporting, analytics, and data visualization needs
- Conduct discovery workshops to gather requirements, define use cases, and assess data sources
- Translate business requirements into clear functional and technical specifications
- Provide recommendations on Power ON best practices, governance, and adoption strategies.
- Design scalable and efficient Power ON solutions, including data models, dashboards, and reports
- Develop datasets, measures (DAX), and visuals to support business insights
- Maintain data accuracy, integrity, and security within the Power BI environment
- Optimise performance of reports and dashboards for a seamless user experience
- Implement Power ON configurations, including workspaces, security, and sharing policies
- Estimate project effort, timeline, and resource requirements for Power ON implementations
- Define project milestones and collaborate with project managers to ensure timely delivery
- Develop prototypes and proof-of-concepts to validate solutions before full implementation
- Support UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and gather feedback for refinements
- Conduct training sessions for end-users to drive adoption of Power ON solutions
- Provide post-implementation support, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
- Act as a trusted advisor to clients on Power ON strategies and future enhancements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, or a related field
- Experience in Power BI development and business intelligence consulting
- Experience in the finance industry
- Microsoft Power BI certification (e.g., PL-300: Power BI Data Analyst)
- Strong expertise in Power BI (Power Query, Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, DAX, and M Query)
- Experience designing data models and ETL processes within Power BI
- Proficiency in SQL for querying and transforming data from various sources
- Understanding of Azure services (e.g., Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL)
- Knowledge of Power Automate and Power Apps integration with Power BI
- Experience with non-Microsoft data sources (Snowflake, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Synapse, Big Query) advantageous
- Strong ability to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions
- Understanding of financial reporting, planning and analysis.
- Experience in estimating implementation efforts and defining project scopes
- Ability to work with stakeholders at all levels, including senior executives
- Excellent communication and presentation skills for client-facing interactions
- Proven track record of delivering end-to-end Power BI solutions in a consulting or business setting
- Willingness to travel to client sites as needed.
Benefits
- At this time insightsoftware is not able to offer sponsorship to candidates who are not eligible to work in the country where the position is located.
- Background checks are required for employment with insightsoftware, where permitted by country, state/province.
- Equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law.
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Hard skills
Power BIDAXPower QueryPower BI DesktopPower BI ServiceSQLETL processesdata modelingAzure SynapseAzure Data Factory
Soft skills
requirement gatheringcommunication skillspresentation skillsstakeholder engagementproject managementproblem-solvingtrainingcollaborationadvisory skillsuser acceptance testing
Certifications
Microsoft Power BI certificationPL-300: Power BI Data Analyst