What are the responsibilities and job description for the PowerBI Analyst (Remote) position at Data Heroes Consulting?
The PowerBI Analyst is responsible for preparing, manipulating, and staging data from various data sources in preparation for loading into PowerBI environments. Experience/familiarity with configuring and using PowerBI or other business analytics dashboards and or using other Microsoft BI technologies such as SQL.
Responsibilities:
- Translate business needs to technical specifications
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs, and work to gain in-depth understanding of agency processes and procedures
- Act as primary analyst and work with Client staff to translate business needs into clearly defined, well-documented, high-quality requirements, functional designs, and system supplemental specifications
- Develop sound methods to transform data from various data sources into viable formats for ingestion to Power BI environments
- Assists in designing, building, publishing, and scheduling PowerBI report solutions
- Assists with maintaining and supporting data analytics platforms
- Assists with creating tools to storing data
- Assists with conducting unit testing and troubleshooting
- Assists with evaluating and improving existing PowerBI systems
- Assists with collaborating with teams to integrate systems
- Assists with creating visualizations and reports for requested projects
- Assists with developing and updating technical documentation
- Assists with providing monthly administrative reporting on project duration, update the project percent complete, and estimated hours spent toward each project
- Assist with providing technical support and answer questions from Client staff about specific PowerBI needs
- Follows quality assurance and control processes, and performs routine data management tasks, such as data validation and correction, queries and editing to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and completeness.
- Assists with Troubleshooting and supporting Client’s PowerBI software users
- Communicate with technical and non-technical staff in writing and orally
- Ability to work as a member of a team or independently with minimal supervision, depending on project
- Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
Required
- Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology, or related degree preferred
- 5 years of experience using Excel, VBA, Power Query or other data modeling tool
- 5 years of Excel/Data Modeling/Data Transformation: 5 years
- Familiar with PowerBI Administration, such as gateways, user/report access, workspaces
- Proficient use of Microsoft Office Suite and Microsoft Windows
- Familiar with SQL language preferred
- Experience working in remotely, in a subcontractor format
Preferred
- 2 years of experience using PowerBI
- SQL: 2 years
Job location: Remote
Pay Rate: $35-$45 an hour
Type of Position: Contract
This role is highly flexible and does not guarantee a minimum number of work hours per week. We offer instant skills to our client’s, as needed and can experience high volume demands across multiple projects simultaneously for weeks at a time as well as lulls in demand, allowing you substantial flexibility in your lifestyle. Are you open to this?
About Data Heroes Consulting:
Our team of Data Heroes provide innovative, cost-saving solutions to Client’s time-consuming, inefficient, and costly processes, making their job easier and their bosses and bottom lines much happier! From Smartsheet, to Power BI and Excel development to On-Demand, data-processing, and data analyst resources, we close the unfilled analytics gap for any duration, in any area of your business.
Salary : $35 - $45