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 partner with industry leaders, including Snowflake, AWS, Anthropic, Glean, and dbt, to solve the complex data and AI challenges that slow large enterprises. We're growing fast, and we give our people real ownership over their work. We hire top performers and trust them to deliver results. Why phData? - Snowflake Implementation Partner of the Year — 7 consecutive years , and 2026 Snowflake AI Partner of the Year - AWS Premier Tier Services Partner — the highest tier of recognition in the AWS Partner Network - 2025 Fivetran Partner of the Year (4th consecutive year) - 2025 dbt Labs Partner of the Year (3x winner) with Visionary partner status - 2026 KNIME Customer Excellence Partner of the Year - Preferred Partner in the Anthropic Claude Partner Network - #1 Partner in Snowflake Advanced Certifications - 600+ Expert Cloud Certifications (Sigma, AWS, Azure, Dataiku, and more) - Recognized as an award-winning workplace in the US , India and LATAM Role Overview phData is looking for a Principal Analytics Consultant who specializes in Power BI to lead complex analytics engagements and help customers realize measurable value from their data. In this role, you will combine deep Power BI expertise with strong consulting judgment, executive presence, and delivery leadership. You will guide clients from strategy and discovery through solution design, development, deployment, governance, and adoption. You will translate ambiguous business needs into scalable analytics products that support better decisions and sustainable ways of working with data. You will work closely with client executives, business stakeholders, technical teams, account leaders, and consultants across phData. You will also help shape Power BI delivery standards, reusable accelerators, enterprise adoption approaches, and the continued growth of the Analytics practice.

Key Responsibilities - Lead end-to-end Power BI engagements and workstreams, including planning, discovery, requirements, prototyping, development, testing, deployment, enablement, and adoption. - Establish the overall technical approach, solution architecture, backlog, delivery sequence, 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 to business outcomes. - Apply strong practices in dimensional modeling, DAX, Power Query, SQL, data visualization, metric definition, and performance optimization. - Connect Power BI solutions to enterprise data warehouses, data marts, lakehouses, semantic models, and other analytical data structures. - Lead client discovery and working sessions that clarify ambiguous 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 clear communication, status reporting, feedback loops, risk management, transparent escalation, and alignment on decisions and dependencies. - Provide technical leadership and mentorship to consultants and delivery teams; establish a high bar for quality, usability, maintainability, and client value. - Contribute to staffing plans, utilization planning, delivery planning, workstream budgets, estimates, and overall project performance.