Power BI IT Monitoring Dashboard Consultant (Contract)

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC; Montpelier (VT); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 203,000; Part time

Job summary

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking an experienced Power BI IT Monitoring & Dashboard Consultant for an urgent, short-term engagement through year-end. The project aims to design a consolidated IT health dashboard, a single pane of glass for technology leadership, with executive-level indicators and drill-down capabilities.

The consultant will work with stakeholders to define metrics, determine data collection approaches, and present information to leadership, starting ASAP with onsite or

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Power BI dashboard development.
• Experience with IT infrastructure and IT operations monitoring.
• Experience building executive-facing dashboards and reporting.
• Strong understanding of IT operational KPIs and infrastructure health metrics.
• SQL and data integration experience.
• Experience implementing automated reporting and/or automated data feeds.
• Experience creating monitoring dashboards, operational health dashboards, or "single pane of glass" solutions.
• Ability to work effectively when requirements are still evolving.
• Ability to independently recommend metrics, visualization approaches, and priorities.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to accelerate development.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop executive-level IT monitoring dashboards using Power BI.
• Create intuitive red/yellow/green health indicators and drill-down reporting.
• Identify and prioritize valuable infrastructure and operational metrics.
• Incorporate metrics such as CPU utilization, disk/storage utilization, patch levels, infrastructure health KPIs.
• Identify approaches for collecting, transforming, and integrating monitoring data.
• Potentially leverage SQL databases or similar data sources to feed Power BI.
• Establish automated data refreshes and reporting wherever possible.
• Evaluate existing internal monitoring pages and examples for potential reuse.
• Translate loosely defined business and technical requirements into an actionable dashboard strategy.
• Prioritize functionality based on value within the year-end timebox.
• Build a maintainable and extensible solution for future expansion.
• Clearly communicate what can realistically be accomplished during the engagement.

Skills

Power BI dashboards

IT infra monitoring

Executive dashboards

IT KPIs metrics

SQL data integration

Automated reporting

Single pane dashboards

Evolving requirements

Metrics recommendation

AI tools awareness

Tools

Power BI

SQL databases

Job description

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC is seeking an experienced Power BI IT Monitoring & Dashboard Consultant for an urgent, short-term engagement through year-end. The project aims to design a consolidated IT health dashboard, a single pane of glass for technology leadership, with executive-level indicators and drill-down capabilities.

The consultant will work with stakeholders to define metrics, determine data collection approaches, and present information to leadership, starting ASAP with onsite or