Senior Dashboard and Application Specialist (Client-Facing)
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About the Role
Stantec's Management Consulting Group seeks a Senior Dashboard and Application Specialist to design and deliver executive dashboards and analytics solutions for clients. The role requires 14+ years of experience in BI, advanced Power BI/Tableau/Qlik skills, and strong client-facing consulting abilities.
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Responsibilities
- Act as a client facing analytics specialist, engaging with senior stakeholders to understand business requirements
- Lead definition of KPIs, performance metrics, and reporting frameworks
- Design, develop, and maintain dashboards using Power BI, Tableau, and/or Qlik
- Translate complex datasets into executive level dashboards with data storytelling
- Design and implement robust data models (star schemas, semantic layers)
- Develop and review advanced SQL queries, views, and datasets
- Perform data validation, quality checks, and reconciliation
- Develop advanced Excel based analytical models and tools
- Establish dashboard standards, templates, and best practices
- Manage dashboard publishing, refresh schedules, access controls, and security
- Present insights and dashboards to senior client stakeholders
- Provide technical guidance and mentor junior analysts
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Analytics, Business Analytics, or related field
- 14+ years of relevant experience in business intelligence, analytics, or data visualization roles
- Advanced experience developing dashboards in Power BI, Tableau, and/or Qlik
- Strong data modeling expertise
- Advanced SQL skills
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (Power Query, Power Pivot, complex formulas)
- Proven ability to operate in a client facing consulting role
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Description
- We are strategizing, planning, and implementing projects that help clients achieve their organizational objectives. Join our award winning Management Consulting and Analytics teams and bring data driven insights and transformational digital solutions to life.
Your Opportunity
- Stantec’s Management Consulting Group in the Middle East is seeking a Senior Dashboard and Application Specialist to work closely with our clients on complex, data driven engagements. The role is client facing and focuses on designing, developing, and delivering executive dashboards, reporting appli
Your Key Responsibilities
- Act as a client facing analytics specialist, engaging directly with senior stakeholders to understand business requirements and reporting needs.
- Lead the definition of KPIs, performance metrics, and reporting frameworks aligned with client objectives and governance structures.
- Design, develop, and maintain dashboards and reporting applications using Power BI, Tableau, and/or Qlik.
- Translate complex datasets into clear, executive level dashboards with strong data storytelling and usability.
- Design and implement robust data models (e.g. star schemas, semantic layers) to support scalable and high performance reporting.
- Develop and review advanced SQL queries, views, and datasets to support dashboard and analytics requirements.
- Perform data validation, quality checks, and reconciliation to ensure integrity, consistency, and auditability of reported information.
- Develop advanced Excel based analytical models and tools (Power Query, Power Pivot, complex formulas) to support analysis and prototyping.
- Establish dashboard standards, templates, documentation, and best practices suitable for enterprise and government clients.
- Manage dashboard publishing, refresh schedules, access controls, and security (including role based or row level security where applicable).
- Present insights, analyses, and dashboards to senior client stakeholders and support data driven decision making.
- Provide technical guidance, review work, and mentor junior analysts and developers.
Qualifications – Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Strong problem solving abilities and high attention to detail.
- Proven ability to operate in a client facing consulting role and manage senior stakeholders.
- Excellent analytical thinking with the ability to translate data into clear business insights.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non technical audiences.
- Ability to work independently to firm deadlines and manage multiple competing priorities.
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, multi cultural consulting environment.
Technical Competencies
- Advanced experience developing dashboards in Power BI, Tableau, and/or Qlik.
- Strong data modelling expertise, including relationships, measures, calculations, and performance optimisation.
- Advanced SQL skills for data extraction, transformation, and troubleshooting.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (Power Query, Power Pivot, complex formulas and modelling).
- Experience with dashboard governance, KPI standardisation, and reporting lifecycle management.
Considered an Asset
- Experience delivering analytics solutions for government, infrastructure, utilities, or large enterprise clients.
- Knowledge of data governance, reporting standards, and performance management frameworks.
- Exposure to automation, ETL tools, or scripting languages (e.g. Python).
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Analytics, Business Analytics, or a related field. Western education is preferred.
- 14+ years of relevant experience in business intelligence, analytics, or data visualisation roles.
- Demonstrated experience delivering client facing dashboarding and analytics engagements, preferably in consulting or professional services environments.
- An equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.
About Stantec
- We’re active members of the communities we serve. That’s why at Stantec we always design with community in mind.
- The Stantec community unites approximately 22,000 employees working in over 400 locations across six continents.
- We collaborate across disciplines and industries to bring projects to life.
Work Location(s)
- Qatar Doha
Employment Type
- Full Time
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