Power BI Specialist

Do you have a natural curiosity to explore what’s beyond your comfort zone? So do we.

We think big and achieve, knowing we have a global team of people who are just as passionate about innovating as we are. That’s why growth at Avanade doesn’t have to look like a traditional ascent up the career ladder (although that is an option). We welcome people to go deep into their specialities and to embrace agility and go after new skills in different areas of the business. Together we go beyond.

About the opportunity

In this highly visible role, as a Power BI Developer (Sr. Consultant), you will use comprehensive modern data engineer techniques and methods to support business decisions for Avanade clients. You can collect, aggregate, and analyse structured/unstructured data from multiple internal and external sources and patterns, insights, and trends to decision-makers. Your goal is to support the use of data-driven insights to help our clients achieve business outcomes and objectives.

What you’ll love doing
- Support teams providing technology-based data reporting tools and management for business segments or the company at large.
- Support project plans around reporting and analytics tools, information dashboards, data visualizations, data modelling and other end-user information portals or resources.
- Generate ad-hoc reports and regular datasets or report information for business-users using system tools and database or data warehouse queries and scripts.
- Integrate data from multiple sources to produce requested or required data elements.
- Program and maintain report form and formats, information dashboards, datasets, canned reports, and other end-user information portals.
- Design and execute performance tests under supervision.
- Collect business and functional specifications and capture requirements from different client business partners.

Who you’ll enjoy working with

As part of the Analytics Team, you’ll love the human-led design thinking and innovative culture. Led by Alan Gonzaga who has a charismatic and coaching leadership style and is all about collaboration and empowered teams. And in terms of the big picture, Avanade proudly celebrates the leadership of Global CEO, Pamela Maynard who has brought our purpose of making a genuine human impact to the forefront of the work we do for our clients, their employees, and their customers.

What we’re interested in you having
- Strong experience with Power BI.
- Strong experience in Data Visualisation with Power BI.
- Data model design following best practice.
- Ability to create calculations using DAX.
- Data ingestion and transformation using Power Query (Direct Queries, Datasets, Datamarts, and Data Flows)
- Proficient with SQL for the generation and extraction of data for use in analytics and reporting.
- Professional experience with data mining, analysis, modelling, of large scale, complex data sets.
- Interpreting results using a variety of techniques, ranging from simple exploratory data analysis to statistical modelling
- Cloud experience in MS Azure environment will be strongly preferred.
- Expertise with modern data warehouse design patterns and tools

What you can expect from us
- Take full advantage of 5 My Days off a year to relax, rebalance and focus on your health and wellbeing or honour your personal cultural beliefs
- Love a gadget? Of course, you do Go spoil yourself on us. Gadget allowances start from $1,000 to 2500 pa
- Your wellbeing matters to us. That’s why you’ll receive $2,000 pa to help you, take care of you
- Empower others and be empowered through our employee networks: Women employees, PRISM for LGBTI+ employees and Veterans employee.
- Help yourself to an extensive menu of Microsoft and technology certifications and enjoy up to 80 paid training hours per year