Microsoft Data, Analytics & AI - Senior Consultant

Microsoft, some experience, lot of experience, consultant

United Kingdom

Job title: Senior Consultant – Data, Analytics & AI
Practice: Microsoft Data, Analytics & AI (DAAI), delaware UK
Reporting to: Data, Analytics & AI Practice Lead
Location: United Kingdom – remote, with travel to client sites as required
Grade / level: Senior Consultant

As a Senior Consultant in delaware’s Data, Analytics & AI practice, you lead the design and delivery of modern analytics and AI solutions on the Microsoft platform - Power BI semantic models, Microsoft Fabric data platforms and Copilot/AI-enabled insight — for enterprise clients.

You are a hands-on delivery lead and trusted advisor: you own analytics workstreams end-to-end, translate business problems into governed, performant data solutions, mentor junior consultants, and contribute to the growth of the practice through pre-sales, reusable IP and thought leadership.

About delaware

We exist to help our clients reach their full potential, by applying our common sense, business experience and passion for technology.

Delaware is a global consultancy that partners with leading technology providers such as SAP (Platinum Partner) and Microsoft to deliver advanced digital solutions. We develop, innovate and implement technology transformations guiding our clients towards an intelligent future.

Everyone at Delaware is a steward of the business. We are building for the future and for those that succeed us and we take responsibility for our relationship with the social and ecological environment.

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What will you be doing?

Client delivery & advisory

Lead analytics workstreams from requirements through to production across one or more client engagements, owning quality, timelines and outcomes.
Run discovery and design workshops, translating business questions into data models, semantic models and reporting solutions.
Shape solution architecture and roadmaps, advising clients on the best-fit Microsoft analytics approach.
Act as a credible trusted advisor to senior business and technical stakeholders.

Technical delivery

Design and build Power BI semantic models — star-schema design, advanced DAX, row-level security, and performance optimisation — and high-quality reports, dashboards and KPI packs.
Build and curate data in Microsoft Fabric — Lakehouse / OneLake, medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) layers, Dataflows Gen2, pipelines and notebooks.
Implement integration patterns including Fabric Link, Dataverse shortcuts and Dynamics 365 (F&O, CE) sources.
Apply AI and Copilot capabilities — Fabric Data Agents, natural-language query and Copilot in Power BI — to deliver next-generation insight.
Embed governance and engineering discipline: workspace and deployment pipelines, security, lineage, testing and documentation.

Practice growth

Support pre-sales: scoping, estimating, proposals, demos and proofs of concept.
Build reusable accelerators, templates and IP that improve delivery speed and quality.
Contribute to delaware’s DAAI capabilities and go-to-markets (Fabric data platform, Business Performance Analytics, Fabric AI).

People & leadership

Mentor and upskill analysts and consultants, and review their work.
Champion best practice and raise the technical bar across the team.

Is there a match?

Essential

Significant hands-on experience delivering Power BI at enterprise scale - advanced DAX, semantic modelling, RLS and performance tuning.
Strong experience with Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse/Warehouse, OneLake, pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, notebooks) or an equivalent modern cloud analytics platform.
Solid dimensional / Kimball data modelling and strong SQL.
Proven consulting and client-delivery track record, taking solutions from requirements to production.
Ability to lead workstreams, mentor others and own delivery quality.
Excellent communication - able to engage both technical and senior business audiences.
Eligible to work in the UK and willing to travel to client sites as required.

Desirable

Microsoft certifications - PL-300 (Power BI), DP-600 (Fabric Analytics Engineer) or DP-700.
Databricks, Spark and Python experience.
Wider Azure data services - Synapse, Data Factory, ADLS - and Microsoft Purview governance.
Dynamics 365 / Dataverse and Business Performance Analytics (BPA).
Applied AI / Copilot / Azure OpenAI and agentic analytics.
Industry experience in housing, energy/renewables, financial services or public sector.

Certifications

delaware actively supports certification and continuous learning. For this role we look for, or will support you to achieve:

PL-300 – Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst
DP-600 – Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
DP-700 – Fabric Data Engineer Associate (advantageous)

What success looks like (first 6–12 months)

Trusted to lead an analytics workstream on at least one major client account.
Delivered governed, performant Power BI and Fabric solutions that clients rely on.
Produced at least one reusable asset or accelerator adopted by the team.
Actively mentoring colleagues and contributing to a live proposal or PoC.

What we offer

A role at the centre of a fast-growing Data, Analytics & AI practice with high-profile Microsoft Fabric and AI work.
Genuine career progression, certification support and exposure to leading-edge Microsoft technology.
A collaborative, ambitious team and a culture built on “we commit, we deliver”.

Our Culture and Values

We attract and retain only the best people who share our values and thrive in our culture. We strive for the highest levels of excellence in all that we do – with our clients, our people, our business, our careers.

We do the right thing to satisfy our clients, combining quiet confidence and a human touch. We are open, positive, enthusiastic and energetic. At Delaware we value and invest in personal competence as much as technical competence and we all want to help each other succeed. We value diversity for the breadth of perspectives and skills it brings us and the better results it produces.

We enjoy each other’s company. We work hard together and we have fun together. We trust one another.

Underpinning our culture are our core values. They are a living part of our daily interactions, influencing what we do and how we do it. They guide how we work with our colleagues, customers, and partners.

Care - we take responsibility. Commitment - we commit, we deliver. Community - we are better together. Respect - inclusive and diverse. Entrepreneurship - we cherish creativity and drive

Let's meet!

Come have a chat with us and tell us all about your skills, talents and previous experience.

Are you keen to help us grow our Microsoft Data, Analytics & AI team? Make sure to connect with us if you have any questions whatsoever.

Click the Apply now button below and hopefully we’ll get to meet each other soon!

Right to work

Please note that it is a legal requirement that you have the right to work in the UK by the time you commence employment. We therefore ask those shortlisted for interview to provide evidence of their right to work in the UK during the recruitment process.

Delaware holds a sponsor licence but not all roles are suitable for sponsorship, especially as, in some cases, individuals are required to work on long term client contracts, and this is not permitted under the sponsorship regime. Also, in some case individuals may be required to work in Ireland or elsewhere in Europe at short notice. If you do not currently have the right to work in the UK we will still consider your application.

If your application is successful beyond the first interview stage we will consider whether sponsorship is a possibility or, where appropriate, whether there are any other immigration options available but unfortunately we cannot guarantee that sponsorship will always be possible.

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