Senior Consultant - Microsoft Cloud, Data, and AI

Title: Data & AI Senior Consultant

Location: Remote, home based office with travel >25%

Description:

The Data & AI Senior Consultant is responsible for being a partner to team members, a mentor, and directly enabling growth of the Data & AI Services team at MCA. The Sr. Consultant is expected to lead project implementations, drive innovation, upskill and mentor junior teammates, and partner with leadership to drive continuous improvement.

Within a project framework, the Data & AI Senior Consultant is responsible for building client relationships, effectively utilizing Agile project delivery methodologies, implementing scalable and efficient technical architectures to satisfy client requirements, and performing hands on implementations of Microsoft data solutions for MCA Connect’s current and future customers/projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements gathering sessions and documentation of client requirements.

• Design and implement dimensional models.

• Design, build, maintain, and support complex data integration pipelines.

• Design and build Power BI Reports, Dashboards, and Apps.

• Able to present how your suggested solution will work and why it should be implemented.

• Able to identify optimization opportunities and plan implementation.

• Mentor junior resources.

• Lead working sessions with clients.

• Lead and delegate ad hoc requests from clients.

• Troubleshoot BI solutions, identify problems, and improve performance and security.

• Design Azure DevOps backlog, sprints, and lead delivery.

• Oversee project team and source code.

• Obtain professional certifications to support our partner designations.

• Drives new revenue through successful delivery, client relationships, and some pre-sales support.

• Learning Master Data Management techniques and technologies.

• Learns Data Governance processes and technologies.

• Expertise with database and pipeline performance tuning activities.

• Must be open to ~10% travel on an as needed basis.

Qualifications

• 5+ years Data Warehousing (Azure/SQL/Synapse/Spark/Delta Lake), ETL (ADF Pipelines/SSIS), Analysis Services, DAX, Power BI Pro and Premium and/or equivalent.

• High level understanding of various Azure cloud data platforms and services.

• Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing data solutions for complex business problems.

• Experience working on projects involving large volumes of data, preferably in the Manufacturing industry.

• Demonstrated the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders, and other relevant parties.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent combination of education and experience preferable.

• Knowledge of Microsoft ERP and CRM tools desirable.

• Kimball Dimensional Modeling and batch/incremental ETL development approaches.

• Experience with database performance tuning activities.

• Experience developing and managing data quality monitoring and an understanding of data governance methodologies.

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

Desired Qualifications

• Committed to mentoring and upskilling teammates.

• Committed to learning, exploring new ideas, and staying at the leading edge.

• Creativity to initiate new ideas and think out of the norm.

• Committed to quality and ability to solve customer problems without conflict.