Data Visualisation Consultant (Power BI)

Snap Analytics are a customer-focussed consultancy that work with organisations to help them achieve their strategic ambitions through the use of cloud analytics solutions. Snap Analytics uses their innovative Snap 360 delivery framework and a culture of teamwork and knowledge sharing striving to exceed customer expectations.

This is an opportunity to work with Snap at a key stage in its growth. As a rapid growth consultancy practice, there is opportunity for you to have a major impact on the organisation and add significant value to our client delivery team.

A bit about the role

Our Data Visualisation Consultants are responsible for delivering business critical data applications to our major clients. This will require oversight of project deliverables in both frontend data visualisation platforms, but also in the requirements of the data engineers, ensuring the successful execution of ETL processes to support the business intelligence and data analytics initiatives.

This role involves collaborating with clients, understanding business requirements and designing impactful data visualisation outputs. 

The role will involve understanding core analytics competencies across the full spectrum of analytics including data integration, data modelling, but with a major focus on analytics tools and dashboard creation. It's key that you have experience of working with data for 3 or more years, and have proven experience of working with Data Modelling, Cloud Data Platforms and Data Visualisation tools (ideally Power BI).

What you'll do

Data Visualisation Design & Development 

• Design, develop and implement actionable dashboards and BI reports. 
• Use Power BI to design and develop solutions for new projects. 
• Ensure efficient data models for the required outputs but also simplifying for subsequent end user ad hoc analysis.
• Be an evangelist for the solutions in the form of client facing demos and training sessions.
• Communicate the design to stakeholders and internal team to ensure clarity and obtain buy in. 

Requirements Analysis 

• Collaborate with the Delivery Director, client stakeholders, data visualisation consultants and data engineers to understand data requirements and translate them into actionable impactful insights. 
• Understand and work comfortably with dashboard design processes including wireframing. 
• Build solutions that provide outputs suited to the end user and their day to day circumstances.

Data Quality and Validation 

• Implement data validation checks throughout the work to ensure accuracy, completeness and integrity of the data. 

Performance Optimisation 

• Identify and address performance bottlenecks, optimizing for speed and end user experience. 

Monitoring and Troubleshooting 

• Act as third line support in period of project hypercare allowing fine tuning and end user assistance

Data Governance and Compliance 

• Implement and enforce data governance policies, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. 

Documentation 

• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation on new applications to be used for training colleagues, end users and to enable handover to support.

Collaboration 

• Contribute to the team effort and accomplish other tasks that may fall outside the role. 
• Raise any problems or challenges to the Delivery Director in a timely manner 

What we're looking for

• 2:1 University degree or above (or equivalent other) 
• Experience with data visualisation and analytics development 
• Strong knowledge of data modelling and cloud DWH concepts 
• Experience with Power BI
• Project experience of working with cloud data platforms (ideally Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Google Big Query) 
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills 
• Motivated, ambitious and determined 
• Ability to work in a high-pressure environment.