Business Intelligence Consultant

ITU Digital World; Osage City (KS); Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization seeks a Business Intelligence Consultant to enhance Power BI reporting capabilities and ensure data accuracy. The role involves improving data sources, reducing dependencies, and delivering effective reporting solutions. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in business intelligence and data management, with advanced knowledge of Power BI and SQL Server.

Qualifications

• At least one year of experience in business intelligence engineering.
• Knowledge of English at advanced level.

Responsibilities

• Improve TSB Power BI live report capabilities.
• Ensure data sources are live and migrate slow sources.
• Identify and remove duplicate reports.

Skills

Power BI

Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)

Software Development

Education

University degree in technical or scientific studies

Tools

SQL Server

REST APIs

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INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION

ITU is the leading United Nations agency for information and communication technologies, with the mission to connect the world. To achieve this, ITU manages the radio-frequency spectrum and satellite orbits at the international level, works to improve communication infrastructure in the developing world, and establishes global standards that foster seamless interconnection of a vast range of communication systems.

Business Intelligence Consultant

Vacancy notice no: 2031

Sector: TSB

Department: OPD

Country of contract: Remote

Duty station: Home Based

Position number: [[positionNumber]]

Grade: [[PositionGrade]]

Type of contract: Consultant

Duration of contract: 5 months

Recruitment open to: External

Application deadline (Midnight Geneva Time): 09 June 2025

ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT

The Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) fulfills the objectives of the Union relating to telecommunication standardization, by providing secretariat support to groups studying technical, operating and tariff questions and facilitating the adoption of Recommendations in these areas with a view to standardizing telecommunications and information technology on a global basis. In order to achieve these objectives, the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau works in accordance with the instructions of the World Telecommunication Standardization Assemblies (WTSA), Telecommunication Standardization Study Groups and the Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group. TSB, headed by an elected Director, provides the technical, administrative and logistic support for the assemblies and for the meetings of the groups mentioned.

The Operations and Planning Department (OPD), is responsible for coordinating and planning support for the activities of the Telecommunication Standardization Sector. It does this through managing the Bureau's activities for organization and planning of assemblies and logistical support to meetings. The Department oversees document processing and provides IT services and solutions for electronic working methods and the development of ITU-T databases. The Department also provides administrative and secretarial support for intellectual property matters and manages the technical editing and final production of ITU-T recommendations and publications as well as ISO/IEC common texts. The Department collaborates closely with the Departments of the General Secretariat and the Bureaux which are responsible for providing support services.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

The purpose of this consultancy is to increase TSB’s ability to provide useful statistics to our users. The goal is to ensure their accuracy, to ensure they are up to date, and to be able to improve them quickly whenever necessary.

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Under the direction of the Head of IT Support and Operations Unit, the Business Intelligence consultant will:

• Improve the TSB Power BI live report capabilities.
• Ensure that data sources are live.
• Find data in slow sources and migrate it to faster ones. For instance, we sometimes store data in large CSV files on SharePoint. They could go to a SQL Server database instead.
• Identify and decrease dependency on Power BI Gateway.
• Set up data pre-processing and reduce Power BI data transformation complexity, for instance by defining database views or by writing bespoke transformation software.
• Identify and remove duplicate reports.
• Fix and update reports, improve them and create new ones to implement new requirements.
• Evaluate SQL Server in Azure, its performance, ease of use, and cost to load data and query it from Power BI. Implement synchronisation and migration mechanisms from the on-premises SQL Server.
  
  

CONCRETE DELIVERABLES

• Verification of live data sources.
• Migration of faster data sources.
• Reduction of dependency on Power BI Gateway.
• Delivery of simpler data transformation.
• Identification and removal of duplicate reports.
• Integration of improved reports.
• Evaluation of SQL Server in Azure and synchronisation and migration mechanisms from the on-premises SQL Server.
  
  

COMPETENCIES

• Outstanding knowledge of Power BI..
• Proficiency in setting up, feeding and querying various data sources such as databases, spreadsheets, XML, JSON, filesystems, REST APIs.
• Proficiency in the use of Power BI supported formula languages, e.g. Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) and M.
• Effective skills in writing software to extract, transform and load data.
  
  

Education

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

University degree in the field of technical or scientific studies OR education in a reputed college of advanced education, with a diploma of equivalent standard to that of a university degree. An advanced degree would be an advantage.

Experience

At least one (1) year of progressively responsible experience in business intelligence engineering.

Languages

Knowledge of English at advanced level. Knowledge of a second official language of the Union (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish) would be an advantage.

REMUNERATION INFORMATION

CHF 4 000.- per month.

Additional Information

Ability to come to ITU headquarters for meetings when necessary.

INFORMATION ON RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Please note that all candidates must complete an on-line application and provide complete and accurate information. To apply, please visit the ITU Careers website. The evaluation of candidates is based on the criteria in the vacancy notice, and may include tests and/or assessments, as well as a competency-based interview. ITU uses communication technologies such as video or teleconference, e-mail correspondence, etc. for the assessment and evaluation of candidates. Please note that only selected candidates will be further contacted and candidates in the final selection step will be subject to reference checks based on the information provided. Messages originating from a non ITU e-mail account - @itu.int - should be disregarded. ITU does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.

ITU applies a zero-tolerance policy against all forms of harassment. ITU is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization. Achieving gender balance is a high priority for ITU.

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