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We partner with industry leaders, including Snowflake, AWS, Anthropic, Glean, and dbt, to solve the complex data and AI challenges that slow large enterprises.\nWe're growing fast, and we give our people real ownership over their work. We hire top performers and trust them to deliver results.\nWhy phData?\nSnowflake Implementation Partner of the Year - 7 consecutive years, and 2026 Snowflake AI Partner of the Year\nAWS Premier Tier Services Partner - the highest tier of recognition in the AWS Partner Network\n 2025 Fivetran Partner of the Year (4th consecutive year)\n 2025 dbt Labs Partner of the Year (3x winner) with Visionary partner status\n2026 KNIME Customer Excellence Partner of the Year\n Preferred Partner in the Anthropic Claude Partner Network\n#1 Partner in Snowflake Advanced Certifications\n600+ Expert Cloud Certifications (Sigma, AWS, Azure, Dataiku, and more)\nRecognized as an award-winning workplace in the US, India and LATAM\nThe opportunity\nWe are looking for a Principal Analytics Consultant with deep expertise in Power BI and a strong working knowledge of Sigma Computing. This is a senior client-facing role for someone who can lead complex analytics initiatives from discovery through delivery, connect technical decisions to business value, and serve as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders.\nThe ideal candidate is equally comfortable designing a Power BI semantic model, facilitating a requirements workshop, explaining tradeoffs to a senior client, guiding a consulting team, shaping a proposal, and identifying where AI can improve analytics delivery or the end-user experience.\nWhat you’ll do\nLead analytics strategy and solution architecture\nOwn the technical approach for complex Power BI engagements, including discovery, solution design, delivery planning, and implementation.\nTranslate business goals into durable analytics architectures, semantic models, metrics, reports, and adoption strategies.\nDefine standards for data modeling, report design, performance, security, governance, testing, deployment, and documentation.\nAdvise clients on the broader analytics landscape, platform choices, modernization paths, and opportunities to improve decision-making.\nPartner with data engineering, data platform, governance, and client teams to ensure analytics solutions are reliable and production-ready.\nDeliver Power BI solutions\nDesign and develop enterprise-grade Power BI semantic models, reports, dashboards, and analytical experiences.\nApply advanced Power Query, DAX, dimensional modeling, star-schema, row-level security, deployment, and workspace-management practices.\nDiagnose and resolve complex issues involving data quality, model design, DAX logic, refreshes, gateways, performance, and report usability.\nOptimize models and reports for scalability, maintainability, accessibility, and a high-quality user experience.\nLead report rationalization, migration, modernization, and remediation programs, including the conversion of legacy calculations and reporting logic.\nEstablish and execute QA, validation, UAT, release, and change-management practices.\nApply Sigma as a secondary capability\nContribute to Sigma implementations, workbook development, data modeling, dashboard design, migration, testing, and enablement when project needs require it.\nTranslate reporting logic and analytical patterns between Power BI and Sigma, identifying differences in calculation behavior, modeling, governance, and user experience.\nHelp clients determine when Power BI, Sigma, or a combination of platforms best supports their business and technical requirements.\nLead clients and engagements\nFacilitate executive and working sessions, requirements discovery, solution reviews, demonstrations, and stakeholder alignment activities.\nCommunicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences, adapting the level of detail to the audience and decision at hand.\nManage expectations, surface risks early, provide actionable recommendations, and maintain clear line-of-sight to project outcomes and timelines.\nPartner with project managers and delivery leadership to manage scope, dependencies, milestones, quality, utilization, and transitions.\nConnect project deliverables to measurable business value, adoption, process improvement, and return on investment.\nAdvance AI-enabled analytics delivery\nUse AI-assisted development thoughtfully to accelerate Power BI modeling, DAX and SQL development, documentation, testing, troubleshooting, prototyping, and migration work.\nApply relevant AI capabilities in the BI ecosystem, such as Power BI Copilot and Sigma AI features, to improve report development and insight consumption.\nHelp design AI-enhanced analytics experiences, including natural-language exploration, generated summaries, semantic or metrics-layer experiences, and workflow-oriented solutions.\nEvaluate and prototype agentic workflows, reusable skills, and automation that improve delivery speed, consistency, and quality.\nValidate AI-generated outputs for accuracy, business relevance, security, privacy, bias, and explainability; apply human judgment wherever it is required.\nFollow client and phData requirements for approved tools, data handling, access controls, and responsible use of AI.\nShare practical AI learnings with clients and the internal analytics community.\nGrow people, practice capability, and client relationships\nMentor consultants and senior consultants through technical guidance, delivery coaching, feedback, and career development support.\nLead capability sessions, communities of practice, technical workshops, interview loops, and internal enablement initiatives.\nCreate reusable delivery assets, accelerators, templates, standards, and thought leadership that scale across engagements.\nPartner with sales and account teams as a solution architect or sales engineer on discovery calls, proposals, estimates, statements of work, and expansion opportunities.\nIdentify opportunities to extend client value through modernization, governance, AI-enabled analytics, and adjacent analytics services.\nContribute to blogs, webinars, conference sessions, demos, or other content that strengthens phData’s analytics community and market presence.\nWhat you bring\n7+ years of experience delivering business intelligence, analytics, data visualization, or analytics consulting solutions.\n5+ years of hands-on Power BI experience in enterprise or consulting environments.\nAdvanced experience with Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service, including semantic modeling, DAX, Power Query, report development, workspace and deployment practices, security, and performance optimization.\nStrong understanding of dimensional modeling, semantic-layer design, data quality, governance, and analytics architecture.\nExperience leading complex projects or workstreams from discovery through implementation, UAT, deployment, and transition to support.\nDemonstrated ability to gather requirements, facilitate workshops, manage stakeholders, and communicate with executive audiences.\nWorking knowledge of Sigma Computing, including workbooks, data modeling, dashboard development, or BI migration patterns.\nStrong SQL skills and experience working with cloud data platforms, data warehouses, data marts, or curated analytical datasets.\nExperience with BI modernization, migration, report rationalization, or translating logic across analytics platforms.\nPractical understanding of AI-assisted development, generative AI, or AI-enabled BI capabilities, with a strong commitment to responsible use and human review.\nAbility to balance hands-on technical delivery, strategic thinking, client leadership, mentoring, and multiple priorities.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, structured problem-solving, and a consulting mindset.\nDemonstrated commitment to continuous learning and upskilling, with the curiosity to stay current on emerging BI, data, cloud, and AI technologies and apply new capabilities responsibly.\nPreferred qualifications\nMicrosoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) or equivalent demonstrated expertise.\nSigma certification or partner-delivery experience.\nExperience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Snowflake, dbt, Tabular Editor, ALM Toolkit, DAX Studio, or similar analytics and development tools.\nExperience with Power BI Copilot, Sigma AI features, Snowflake Cortex, AI agents, MCP-enabled workflows, or AI-assisted migration accelerators.\nExperience defining BI governance, operating models, centers of excellence, adoption programs, or self-service analytics standards.\nExperience supporting pre-sales, solution estimation, proposal development, account expansion, or fixed-scope delivery.\nIndustry experience in areas such as consumer products, retail, healthcare, life sciences, financial services, manufacturing, or technology.\nPublic speaking, technical writing, community participation, or a record of reusable analytics assets.\nHow success will be measured\nClients receive scalable, trusted, performant Power BI solutions that address real business decisions.\nEngagements are led with strong ownership, predictable delivery, proactive communication, and measurable client value.\nPower BI standards and reusable assets improve quality and consistency across projects.\nSigma and cross-platform expertise expand the team’s ability to support modernization and migration programs.\nAI is applied responsibly to accelerate delivery and create better analytics experiences without compromising accuracy, security, governance, or human judgment.\nConsultants and senior consultants receive effective mentorship and grow their technical and consulting capabilities.\nClient relationships deepen through trusted-advisor behavior, thought leadership, and well-shaped expansion opportunities.\nWhy join phData\nWork on challenging analytics and AI initiatives for leading organizations across industries.\nCollaborate with experienced consultants, data engineers, and analytics practitioners.\nContinue building expertise across Power BI, Sigma, modern data platforms, and AI-enabled delivery.\nContribute to a culture that values learning, ownership, practical innovation, and high-quality client outcomes.\nEqual opportunity\nphData is committed to building an inclusive workplace where people with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can do their best work. We consider qualified candidates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.\nphData celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our approach helps us to build a winning team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. So, regardless of how your diversity expresses itself, you can find a home here at phData. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, genetic information, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. 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