BI Consultant

We are seeking an experienced BI Developer to join an established organisation on an initial three-month contract, with the potential to extend.

Please note this role requires onsite attendance 3-5 days per week in Watford and has been deemed outside IR35.

You will develop and enhance Power BI dashboards within a Microsoft Fabric environment, supporting reporting, data analysis and visualisation requirements across the business.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain Power BI reports and dashboards within Microsoft Fabric.
• Translate business requirements into clear, actionable visualisations.
• Standardise existing dashboards and prepare them for client release.
• Develop and support CI/CD pipelines for Fabric deployments.
• Build and maintain data models, semantic layers and datasets.
• Analyse data to identify trends, quality issues and reporting gaps.
• Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders to gather requirements and refine dashboard designs.
• Ensure reports and datasets meet data governance, security and quality standards.
• Document data pipelines, dashboard logic and deployment processes.
• Provide knowledge transfer and handover documentation.

Essential experience

• Strong hands-on Power BI experience, including DAX and data modelling.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, including Lakehouse, Dataflows, Pipelines and semantic models.
• Experience implementing CI/CD practices for Fabric or Power BI deployments, ideally using Azure DevOps.
• Strong data analysis and data visualisation skills.
• Ability to identify data-quality issues and translate findings into reporting requirements.
• Confident communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and deliver within tight contract timescales.

Desirable experience

• SQL and wider Azure data-platform technologies.
• Experience working with external delivery partners on Microsoft Fabric implementations.

Contract details

• Initial three-month contract with potential to extend.
• Immediate start; candidates available at short notice will be prioritised.
• Hybrid working, with a minimum of three days per week on-site in Watford.
• Rate negotiable depending on experience.