Lead Analyst Power BI with paginated reports.

Position Description:

Founded in 1976 CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 94000 consultants and professionals across the globe CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2024 reported revenue is CA$14.68 billion and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at .

Position: Associate Consultant-Power BI with paginated reports.
Experience: 7-10 years
Category: Software Development/ Engineering
Shift Timing: 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Location: Chennai
Position ID: J0326-0901
Employment Type: Full Time


Position Description
We are seeking a hands-on Enterprise Power BI Architect to define design and govern the BI architecture across programs and client accounts. This role focuses on building scalable secure and high-performance reporting solutions that enable data-driven decision-making.
The architect will work closely with business stakeholders data engineering teams and delivery leads to translate business needs into enterprise reporting frameworks. The role requires a strong combination of Power BI technical expertise architectural thinking governance and stakeholder engagement.
This is an individual contributor role focused on architecture and delivery oversight rather than people management.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

Architecture & Solution Design
Design develop and oversee Power BI dashboards reports and paginated reports aligned with business requirements.
Define and maintain enterprise-level Power BI architecture standards patterns and best practices.
Architect scalable semantic models reusable data models and enterprise reporting frameworks.
Establish reusable data models KPI frameworks and visualization standards across domains.
Define and enforce data security strategies including Row-Level Security (RLS) access governance and workspace security.
Drive performance optimization across datasets data models reports and enterprise workspaces.
Optimize data models datasets and report performance for enterprise-scale deployments.
Governance & Strategy
Define and enforce BI governance standards including naming conventions workspace strategy and deployment pipelines.
Collaborate with data engineering teams to align reporting with data warehouse lakehouse and analytics platforms.
Evaluate existing reporting solutions and recommend modernization and architecture improvements.
Ensure data governance compliance and security standards are maintained.
Act as a steward for analytics platform maturity and standardization across accounts.
Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership
Lead architecture discussions with business stakeholders program leaders and clients.
Translate business strategy and analytical needs into actionable reporting and architecture roadmaps.
Clearly articulate trade-offs risks scalability considerations and remediation strategies to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Provide solution architecture support for presales estimations and strategic initiatives.
Delivery Enablement & Team Leadership
Guide BI developers and tech leads on data modeling DAX optimization and Power BI best practices.
Conduct architecture reviews design validations and solution quality assessments.
Enable DevOps CI/CD automation and monitoring practices for Power BI solutions.
Mentor teams and promote enterprise BI delivery maturity and technical excellence.

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Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Architecture & Solution Design
Design develop and oversee Power BI dashboards reports and paginated reports aligned with business requirements.
Define and maintain enterprise-level Power BI architecture standards patterns and best practices.
Architect scalable semantic models reusable data models and enterprise reporting frameworks.
Establish reusable data models KPI frameworks and visualization standards across domains.
Define and enforce data security strategies including Row-Level Security (RLS) access governance and workspace security.
Drive performance optimization across datasets data models reports and enterprise workspaces.
Optimize data models datasets and report performance for enterprise-scale deployments.
Governance & Strategy
Define and enforce BI governance standards including naming conventions workspace strategy and deployment pipelines.
Collaborate with data engineering teams to align reporting with data warehouse lakehouse and analytics platforms.
Evaluate existing reporting solutions and recommend modernization and architecture improvements.
Ensure data governance compliance and security standards are maintained.
Act as a steward for analytics platform maturity and standardization across accounts.
Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership
Lead architecture discussions with business stakeholders program leaders and clients.
Translate business strategy and analytical needs into actionable reporting and architecture roadmaps.
Clearly articulate trade-offs risks scalability considerations and remediation strategies to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Provide solution architecture support for presales estimations and strategic initiatives.
Delivery Enablement & Team Leadership
Guide BI developers and tech leads on data modeling DAX optimization and Power BI best practices.
Conduct architecture reviews design validations and solution quality assessments.
Enable DevOps CI/CD automation and monitoring practices for Power BI solutions.
Mentor teams and promote enterprise BI delivery maturity and technical excellence.

Skills:

• Data Analysis
• Data Modeling
• Data Warehousing
• DevOps
• English
• SQL

What you can expect from us:

Together as owners lets turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership teamwork respect and belonging. Here youll reach your full potential because

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. Thats why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our companys strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. Youll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas embrace new opportunities and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

Youll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. Youll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our teamone of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.