Business Intelligence Team Leader I

Duck; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Duck is seeking a Business Intelligence Leader to transform data into strategic insights across the business. You will mentor a team of BI Analysts and own the design, development, and delivery of analytics solutions, partnering with leaders to translate needs into reliable, well-documented data products.

You will build Power BI models, manage data governance, optimize BigQuery and Fabric environments, and drive analytics maturity with a collaborative, results-driven mindset in a fast-paced,

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of Business Intelligence or Analytics experience delivering dashboards, reporting solutions, and stakeholder-facing insights.
• Minimum 1 year of experience leading analysts or serving as a technical lead or mentor.
• Proven production experience with Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and Google BigQuery.
• Exposure to data governance, performance optimization, and analytics best practices preferred.
• Certifications Preferred: Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst (PL 300).
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or PMI ACP (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross functional teams to improve analytics maturity and business decision making.
• Apply competency frameworks and skills standards across Business Intelligence roles.
• Partner with HR and Workday stakeholders to maintain current job profile competencies and analytics role standards.
• Escalate risks, roadblocks, and resource concerns while driving resolution and accountability.
• Present insights, recommendations, and tradeoffs to stakeholders and executive audiences.
• Coach team members on analytical thinking, problem framing, stakeholder communication, and data storytelling.
• Establish and enforce quality standards, documentation requirements, peer reviews, and release readiness criteria.
• Manage intake processes, prioritization frameworks, service level expectations, and stakeholder requests.
• Own team backlog management, capacity planning, and sprint or Kanban processes to ensure efficient delivery.
• Build and review Power BI semantic models, measures, reports, dashboards, and visualizations.
• Lead and manage a team of Business Intelligence Analysts to deliver high quality analytics solutions aligned with business priorities.
• Assign work based on business impact, team strengths, and organizational priorities.
• Partner with business leaders to translate complex business questions into actionable analytical solutions.
• Develop and oversee Power Query transformations and data modeling best practices.
• Manage and optimize Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse environments, Dataflows Gen2, and data pipelines.
• Support data governance initiatives and ensure consistency, quality, and reliability across reporting assets.
• Oversee Google BigQuery datasets with a focus on performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Establish and maintain visualization standards, reporting frameworks, and analytics best practices.
• Maintain reusable datasets, report catalogs, user documentation, and self service analytics resources.

Skills

Power BI

Leadership

Data storytelling

SQL

Mentoring

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Google BigQuery

Workday

Power Query

Job description

For ambitious, culturally diverse, curious minds seeking booming careers, Job Duck unlocks and nurtures your potential. We connect you with rewarding, remote job opportunities with US-based employers who recognize and appreciate your skills, allowing you to not just survive but thrive.

As a lifestyle company, we ensure that everybody working here has a fantastic time, which is why we’ve earned the Great Place to Work Certification every year since 2022!

Job Description

The Business Intelligence Leader plays a critical role in transforming data into meaningful business decisions across multiple functional areas. In this position, you will lead a team of Business Intelligence Analysts while actively contributing to the design, development, and delivery of high impact analytics solutions. You will collaborate with leaders across the organization to translate business needs into actionable insights, ensuring stakeholders have access to reliable, well documented, and decision ready data products. Success in this role requires a strategic thinker who enjoys mentoring others, driving continuous improvement, and balancing technical excellence with strong business partnership skills. This is an excellent opportunity for a collaborative and results driven professional who thrives in a fast paced, data focused environment and enjoys helping teams maximize their impact through analytics.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborate with cross functional teams to improve analytics maturity and business decision making

• Apply competency frameworks and skills standards across Business Intelligence roles

• Partner with HR and Workday stakeholders to maintain current job profile competencies and analytics role standards

• Escalate risks, roadblocks, and resource concerns while driving resolution and accountability

• Present insights, recommendations, and tradeoffs to stakeholders and executive audiences

• Coach team members on analytical thinking, problem framing, stakeholder communication, and data storytelling

• Establish and enforce quality standards, documentation requirements, peer reviews, and release readiness criteria

• Manage intake processes, prioritization frameworks, service level expectations, and stakeholder requests

• Own team backlog management, capacity planning, and sprint or Kanban processes to ensure efficient delivery

• Build and review Power BI semantic models, measures, reports, dashboards, and visualizations

• Lead and manage a team of Business Intelligence Analysts to deliver high quality analytics solutions aligned with business priorities

• Assign work based on business impact, team strengths, and organizational priorities

• Partner with business leaders to translate complex business questions into actionable analytical solutions

• Conduct design reviews and provide ongoing feedback to support professional development

• Develop and oversee Power Query transformations and data modeling best practices

• Manage and optimize Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse environments, Dataflows Gen2, and data pipelines

• Support data governance initiatives and ensure consistency, quality, and reliability across reporting assets

• Oversee Google BigQuery datasets with a focus on performance, scalability, and cost efficiency

• Establish and maintain visualization standards, reporting frameworks, and analytics best practices

• Maintain reusable datasets, report catalogs, user documentation, and self service analytics resources

Requirements

Minimum 2 years of Business Intelligence or Analytics experience delivering dashboards, reporting solutions, and stakeholder-facing insights

Minimum 1 year of experience leading analysts or serving as a technical lead or mentor

Proven production experience with Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and Google BigQuery

Exposure to data governance, performance optimization, and analytics best practices preferred

Certifications Preferred: Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst (PL 300)

Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer (DP 600)

Google Professional Data Engineer

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or PMI ACP

Required Software and Tools: Microsoft 365 Suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, and Planner. Workday. Power BI. Microsoft Fabric. Google BigQuery. Microsoft Copilot. Keeper Security. Virtual Machine environment when applicable

Technical Requirements: Advanced Power BI skills including DAX, Power Query, and data modeling

Microsoft Fabric experience including Dataflows Gen2, Lakehouse, and data pipelines

Advanced SQL and Google BigQuery optimization experience

Ability to develop data visualizations and analytics products following presentation and storytelling best practices

Understanding of analytics governance, quality assurance, and documentation standards

Preferred Technical Skills: Python for analytics and automation, Git version control, dbt or similar transformation frameworks

Work Shift

8:30 AM - 5:30 PM [EST][EDT] (United States of America)

Languages

English, Spanish