Data Analytics Consultant

Robert Half
Reading, United States of America
17 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Reading, United States of America

Tech stack

Business Analytics Applications
Data analysis
Cloud Computing
Databases
Information Engineering
Data Governance
Data Infrastructure
Data Integration
Data Systems
Data Warehousing
Dimensional Modeling
Python
NoSQL
Power BI
Software Engineering
Cloud Platform System
Azure
Snowflake
Data Strategy
Microsoft Fabric
Data Lake
Information Technology
Data Analytics
Data Management
Azure
Stream Analytics
Data Pipelines
Databricks

Job description

  • Partner with clients as a technical advisor, helping them evaluate options and make informed decisions on analytics and data platform solutions.
  • Architect and deliver data environments across public and private cloud ecosystems, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with business goals.
  • Lead discussions on data governance, quality standards, architecture direction, and long-term analytics strategy for client organizations.
  • Facilitate discovery meetings, workshops, and executive presentations to gather requirements and translate business needs into practical technical plans.
  • Explain emerging data technologies and analytics capabilities in a way that highlights measurable value for both business and technical audiences.
  • Establish effective approaches for collecting, storing, transforming, and analyzing data to support reporting, operational insight, and decision-making.
  • Create implementation roadmaps and phased delivery plans for analytics initiatives, including assessments of current-state environments and future-state architecture.
  • Review existing data solutions, identify improvement opportunities, and produce clear documentation that supports design decisions and project execution.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders ranging from senior executives to engineering teams while contributing across multiple phases of the project lifecycle, including pre-sales support.

Requirements

  • Apply analytics expertise to use cases involving risk monitoring, fraud-related analysis, and investigative data interpretation where business needs require it. Requirements - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • At least 5 years of experience delivering Microsoft-based reporting, analytics, visualization, and data integration solutions.
  • Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience designing and building data platforms, data pipelines, and analytics solutions.
  • Deep expertise with Microsoft Fabric workloads, including Power BI reporting, Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Warehouse, Database, and Real-Time Intelligence.
  • Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL data platforms, modern data lake and lakehouse concepts, and enterprise data architecture patterns.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with executive leadership, business stakeholders, and technical teams in a client-facing environment.
  • Proficiency with Python and generative AI tools for development, along with experience implementing security features such as row-level security.
  • Active Microsoft Fabric certification required; experience with technologies such as Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, stream analytics, and dimensional modeling approaches is a plus. Technology Doesn't Change the World, People Do., All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Benefits are available to contract/temporary professionals, including medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance. Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan. Visit roberthalf.gobenefits.net for more information.

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About the company

Robert Half is the world's first and largest specialized talent solutions firm that connects highly qualified job seekers to opportunities at great companies. We offer contract, temporary and permanent placement solutions for finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, and administrative and customer support roles.

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