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Power BI Senior Consultant

Apply Job ID 32876 Date posted 10/03/2025

Job Family:

Operational Effectiveness Consulting


Travel Required:

Up to 10%


Clearance Required:

Active Secret

What You Will Do:

Guidehouse is seeking a hands-on Power BISenior Consultant to design, configure and develop a custom solution in Power BI. The candidate will take an active role in leading the development of a custom Power BI dashboard for the client in the Defense and Security Segment, where the individual will collect and analyze human capital data to identify trends, develop visualizations and identify client requirements in support of organizational and mission goals. The candidate will have excellent presentation, communication, leadership, and client development skills to effectively present information to clients and senior level groups. The candidate should have excellent organizational and multi-tasking skills, attention to quality, self-motivation and a strong desire to succeed.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Drive Power BI implementation through all project phases including discovery, definition, build, test, and deploy

  • Lead design and development of data visualization and dashboard solutions

  • Lead and review data ingestion, transformation, and cleaning processes using languages and tools such as R, Python, SQL, DAX,Power Query, and Tableau Prep

  • Deliver services and solutions for clients using Microsoft’s PowerApps, Power BI, SharePoint, Power Automate, Microsoft Teams, custom development, and data integrations

  • Serve as Power BI Subject Matter Expert (SME), with technical expertise including system architecture, solution design, system configuration, and security management

  • Present tailored demonstrations of the technology solution

  • Help create design documentation for new solutions and functions

  • Perform advanced analytics on diverse disparate data to identify trends

  • Conduct end-user training and create and maintain knowledge transfer documentation

  • Communicate technical information to senior decision-makers and non-technical audiences

  • Handle and share data in compliance with proper security standards

  • Ensure data governance and quality assurance standards are met

  • Work with team members to summarize and report on business process improvements to include gaps in current processes and initiatives to improve processes for an organization

  • Organize and lead client meetings, including scheduling meetings; drafting and delivering agendas and meeting minutes; providing and archiving required documentation; and documenting, tracking, and followingup on action items

  • Be proactive in staying up to date on the latest updates to Power BI, as well as future roadmap features announced in Microsoft’s wave plans


What You Will Need:

  • An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED "SECRET" Federal or DoD security clearance

  • Bachelor's degree

  • THREE (3) years of professional experience including TWO (2) years of Power BI development experience and compiling and cleaning data from multiple different sources using programming languages (Python, R, SQL) or low-code/no-code software (Power Query, Tableau Prep)

  • Ability to work on client site in Washington, DC metro region 3 days per week


What Would Be Nice To Have:

  • Experience consulting for the Department of Defense or other Federal agencies

  • Experience administering Power BI or Tableau Server/Cloud workspaces and apps for multiple different stakeholders

  • Any Tableau or Microsoft data analytics or data visualization certifications

  • Strong understanding of data visualization and design best practices

  • Excellent verbal and written communication, organizational, prioritization, and time management skills, with strong attention to detail

  • Experience developing new and re-designing existing processes to meet new and/or evolving business requirements

  • Ability to work independently with minimal direction

  • Ability to anticipate and respond to management and client needs

  • Ability to provide guidance and direction for specific projects or sub-tasks

  • Capability to manage multi-task projects

  • Ability to facilitate meetings and present topics to diverse groups of functional and technical staff

  • Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of staff within an organization

  • Experience working with human capital-related data

  • Experience with cloud-based analytics platforms such as Databricks, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure


What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

  • Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

  • Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays

  • Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

  • Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance

  • 401(k) Retirement Plan

  • Basic Life & Supplemental Life

  • Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

  • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability

  • Student Loan PayDown

  • Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities

  • Skills Development & Certifications

  • Employee Referral Program

  • Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach

  • Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program

  • Mobility Stipend

About Guidehouse

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

If you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1-571-633-1711 or via email at RecruitingAccommodation@guidehouse.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.

All communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @guidehouse.com or guidehouse@myworkday.com.  Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse.  Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event. Never provide your banking information to a third party purporting to need that information to proceed in the hiring process.

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Guidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Guidehouse and Guidehouse will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.

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