[Hiring] Principal Analytics Consultant @phData

Role Description

We are looking for a Principal Consultant to join our Analytics team. In this role, you will lead the strategy, architecture, and delivery of enterprise Power BI solutions that help clients gain tangible value from their data through analytics enablement, data visualization, and data preparation. You will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, data engineering teams, and practice leadership to shape roadmaps, standardize best practices, and scale modern BI capabilities across organizations.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and drive the design and delivery of advanced Power BI reporting, data models, and analytics solutions for enterprise clients.
• Translate business requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions and interactive prototypes that align with phData methodologies, standards, and best practices.
• Deliver project-based consulting engagements, including backlog support and development, ensuring work is completed on time, within scope, and with measurable business value.
• Create reporting and data visualization solutions that clearly communicate insights to business users and support data-driven decision-making.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and tune performance or deployment issues across Power BI reports, data models, and underlying platforms.
• Recommend best practices to optimize data models, DAX calculations, queries, and overall platform architecture, particularly in modern cloud data environments (e.g., Snowflake).
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners including data engineering, analytics, and client business stakeholders to deliver successful client engagements.
• Manage client expectations by leading regular status meetings, providing clear updates, and proactively soliciting feedback through working sessions and demos.
• Provide technical and strategic leadership in Power BI, DAX, Power Query, and Power BI Service administration, including security roles and infrastructure setup.
• Ensure high quality in deliverables through documentation, validation, testing, and adherence to governance, security, and change management standards.
• Partner with practice and account leaders to identify opportunities to expand analytics use cases, improve delivery patterns, and standardize reusable approaches.
• Contribute to internal initiatives such as developing Power BI accelerators, templates, governance frameworks, and best-practice playbooks.
• Support internal enablement through training, mentoring, and coaching on Power BI, data modeling, and enterprise BI standards.
• Represent phData with professionalism in all interactions, communicating clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, shaping Power BI and analytics roadmaps, influencing strategic decisions, and guiding long-term initiatives.
• Lead teams of consultants to ensure high performance, utilization, and successful project delivery across one or more engagements.
• Drive enterprise-scale adoption of Power BI, including standards, governance, security models, and self-service enablement.
• Help define and refine practice standards, reusable assets, and delivery frameworks for modern BI and analytics.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data analytics and data visualization platforms in an enterprise environment.
• 3+ years of external consulting experience delivering data and analytics solutions to clients.
• Expertise in data visualization and data modeling with Power BI, including complex data models and interactive dashboards.
• Power BI Service administration experience, including security roles, workspace design, and infrastructure setup.
• Strong proficiency in DAX and Power Query for advanced calculations, transformations, and data shaping.
• Knowledge of SQL and experience leveraging data warehouses, data marts, and/or data models (Snowflake environment preferred).
• Demonstrated expertise in data fluency and communicating analytical insights and recommendations to business users.
• Ability to identify and recommend functionality and solutions to meet and enhance user and stakeholder requirements.
• Experience recommending and applying best practices for optimizing data models, reports, and overall analytics platform architecture.
• Experience delivering projects for external or internal clients in a professional services or consulting environment.
• Ability to break down complex problems into structured, actionable steps and drive them through to completion.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with distributed and cross-functional teams in a remote-first environment.
• Exceptional customer-facing skills, with a proven track record of building trust and long-term relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Proven track record of taking ownership, managing multiple priorities, and delivering high-quality work with minimal supervision.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a passion for learning and mastering new technologies, techniques, and procedures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience scaling Power BI at an enterprise level, including governance, standards, and self-service enablement.
• Previous experience leading teams of consultants to ensure performance, utilization, and successful project delivery.
• Data preparation experience using Alteryx or KNIME (or similar tools like Matillion, Dataiku, or Coalesce).
• Experience in specific industry verticals or problem spaces relevant to enterprise analytics.
• Prior experience working in global or remote teams and partnering across US, LATAM, and/or India.
• Contributions to open source, technical communities, speaking, writing, or internal accelerators are a plus.

Location & Time Zone Expectations

• This role is based in LATAM.
• We are a remote-first company, and you should be comfortable working with a distributed global team.
• Some flexibility may be required to collaborate across time zones with colleagues and clients.
• Client needs may occasionally require flexibility in working hours to support key milestones or workshops.

Benefits

• Remote-First Work Environment
• Casual, award-winning small-business work environment
• Collaborative culture that prizes autonomy, creativity, and transparency
• Competitive compensation, excellent benefits, generous PTO plan plus 10 Holidays (and other cool perks)
• Accelerated learning and professional development through advanced training and certifications