Data & Analytics Principal Consultant - Microsoft Fabric

Position: Principal Consultant Data & Analytics - Microsoft Fabric

Datacom Location: Auckland Preferred, Wellington Ok, or else anywhere in the North Island if willing and able to travel

Our Why 

Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help them to use the power of tech to innovate and grow. 

About the Role (Your Why) 

As a Principal Consultant, you will lead the technical delivery of large-scale data platform and BI solutions. You will be asked to design, implement and own the delivery of robust Data Platform solutions and end-to-end components. This is a client facing role, so you'll need to be an excellent communicator and good with people. The Principal Consultant works closely with practice leads, project managers, and client stakeholders and teams.

The Data and Analytics team are a progressive group of diverse and creative individuals with a deep love for all things data related. They build platforms and solutions that are leading edge and at the forefront of the technology curve. A close knit and fun team embedded within our rapidly growing Professional Services division, and part of the wider Datacom ecosystem.

What You’ll Do

• Working with clients (businesses users) to gather, clarify requirements and business rules by running workshops with stakeholders.
• Lead the technical architecture, design and delivery for new Modern Data Platforms.
• Provide overall thought leadership to our clients regarding data profiling and integration recommendations.
• Data modelling (relational and dimensional and Snowflake schema)
• Managing development life cycle using various source code management tools.
• Ability to perform performance tuning and optimisation on new and/or existing data warehouse solutions.
• Provide detailed documentation, end user training and knowledge-transfer services to customers, and internal teams.
• Mentor developers, acting as an SME in data platform/warehouse architectures and data modelling

What You’ll Bring: Skills

• Strong consultation and client management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communications.
• Advance skills and a proven track-record of building modern data platform solutions in cloud platforms such as Azure/Fabric, AWS & GCP
• Advanced ETL/ELT process design and implementation.
• Advanced skills in Synapse Analytics and Azure SQL.
• Proven track-record using data ingestion tools such as Azure/Fabric Data Factory, Azure Event Hubs, Fivetran, Matillion, DBT, Coalesce, and AWS Glue.
• Advanced data modelling skills (Star schema, Snowflake schema, data vault)
• Advanced skills in performance tuning, query plan, query plan analysis, indexing, table partitioning.
• Proven track-record in the design, development and implementation of data solutions using Databricks.
• Experience using Informatica IDMC or on-prem solutions
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodology.

What You’ll Bring: Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• Minimum 8+ years’ experience in EDW design and implementation.
• Minimum 8+ years’ experience in ETL architecting and design.
• Minimum 8+ years’ experience in data modelling (Star schema & Snowflake schema)
• Minimum 8+ years’ experience in various Microsoft SQL server technologies including SSIS, SSRS, SQL Server Analysis Services
• Minimum 5+ years’ experience in semantic layer development.
• Minimum 3+ years’ experience in Power BI

Why Join Us Here at Datacom? 

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us. 

We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment. 

We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities. 

We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.