Power BI Consultant – Production Support & Optimization

Full Time | On-Site | Chennai | Immediate Joiner

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Power BI Consultant to support a business-critical reporting environment following a cloud data-platform migration. The role combines hands-on Power BI development, production support, performance optimization, functional analysis, and business stakeholder engagement.

Key Responsibilities

- Support Power BI reports and dashboards during go-live, stabilization, and day-to-day operations.
- Investigate and resolve data, refresh, access, security, performance, and reporting issues.
- Validate reports, semantic models, calculations, data accuracy, and security after platform changes.
- Develop and enhance dashboards, data models, DAX measures, and Power Query transformations.
- Optimize report performance, dataset refreshes, data models, SQL queries, and Snowflake usage.
- Perform root-cause analysis and implement sustainable solutions.
- Gather business requirements and translate them into effective reporting solutions.
- Work with stakeholders to define KPIs, priorities, acceptance criteria, and improvement needs.
- Manage defects and enhancements from initial analysis through testing, deployment, and support.
- Coordinate with data engineering, platform, security, and business teams.
- Maintain documentation, support procedures, and a prioritized improvement backlog.
- Support user acceptance testing, production releases, and business sign-off.

Required Skills and Experience





- At least five years of business intelligence or analytics experience.
- At least three years of hands-on Power BI development and production support.
- Strong experience with Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service.
- Advanced knowledge of DAX, Power Query, and semantic data modelling.
- Strong SQL skills and experience with Snowflake or a comparable cloud data platform.
- Experience with refresh schedules, gateways, workspaces, permissions, and row-level security.
- Ability to troubleshoot data discrepancies and performance issues across reporting and data layers.
- Experience supporting a migration, go-live, or production stabilization period.
- Proven ability to gather requirements directly from business stakeholders.
- Robust communication, problem-solving, prioritization, and ownership skills.
- Ability to explain technical issues clearly to both business and technical audiences.

Preferred Skills

- Power BI Premium or Microsoft Fabric experience.
- Snowflake query and warehouse optimization.
- DirectQuery, composite models, and incremental refresh.
- Deployment pipelines, version control, and release management.
- Experience with DAX Studio, Tabular Editor, Power BI APIs, or PowerShell.
- Familiarity with ITIL-based incident, problem, and change-management processes.

Certification Requirements

- Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300)
- SnowPro Core Certification
- ITIL and ITSM Foundation for production-support experience.

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