Principal Analytics Consultant (Power BI)

Join phData, a remote-first data and AI consultancy company with employees across the United States, Latin America, and India.

We're growing fast, and we give our people real ownership over their work. We hire top performers and trust them to deliver results.

The opportunity

We 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.

The 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.

What you’ll do

Lead analytics strategy and solution architecture

• Own the technical approach for complex Power BI engagements, including discovery, solution design, delivery planning, and implementation.
• Translate business goals into durable analytics architectures, semantic models, metrics, reports, and adoption strategies.
• Define standards for data modeling, report design, performance, security, governance, testing, deployment, and documentation.
• Advise clients on the broader analytics landscape, platform choices, modernization paths, and opportunities to improve decision-making.
• Partner with data engineering, data platform, governance, and client teams to ensure analytics solutions are reliable and production-ready.

Deliver Power BI solutions

• Design and develop enterprise-grade Power BI semantic models, reports, dashboards, and analytical experiences.
• Apply advanced Power Query, DAX, dimensional modeling, star-schema, row-level security, deployment, and workspace-management practices.
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues involving data quality, model design, DAX logic, refreshes, gateways, performance, and report usability.
• Optimize models and reports for scalability, maintainability, accessibility, and a high-quality user experience.
• Lead report rationalization, migration, modernization, and remediation programs, including the conversion of legacy calculations and reporting logic.
• Establish and execute QA, validation, UAT, release, and change-management practices.