Senior BI Lead — Power BI Dashboards & Analytics

Leidos; United States; Remote; USD 108,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos Digital seeks a Technical Project Leader – Senior BI / Power BI Builder to support U.S. Coast Guard digital transformation, automation, and decision-support initiatives.

The role combines technical leadership with Power BI development to deliver dashboards for mission visibility and executive decision-making. You will work with Coast Guard leaders, program managers, data engineers, cybersecurity teams, and stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable BI solutions that meet

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of IT, analytics, systems engineering, or technical project leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional technical projects.
• Hands‑on experience with: Power BI, PowerApps, SharePoint, Excel, SQL, Python, Microsoft 365.
• Experience developing executive dashboards, KPIs, analytical products, and decision-support reporting.
• Experience with requirements analysis, process mapping, data validation, root cause analysis, and technical documentation.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum and tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DHS Public Trust.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, execution, and delivery of BI and Power BI initiatives from requirements through deployment and sustainment.
• Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain Power BI dashboards, KPI scorecards, executive reports, and operational performance views.
• Integrate Power BI with PowerApps, SharePoint, Excel, SQL, APIs, and Microsoft 365 data sources.
• Analyze program and operational data using Power BI, Excel, Python, and SQL to identify trends and risks.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops to define reporting requirements, KPIs, business rules, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop project plans, schedules, milestone tracking, risk registers, technical roadmaps, and status briefings.
• Manage BI backlogs, dependencies, risks, technical issues, testing, demonstrations, and user feedback.
• Support data quality, validation, reconciliation, requirements traceability, and authoritative data-source identification.
• Coordinate with cloud, cybersecurity, and data teams to ensure BI solutions comply with security and governance requirements.
• Support Agile planning, sprint reviews, technical demonstrations, and executive briefings.
• Develop reusable dashboard standards, templates, and reporting best practices.

Skills

Power BI development

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Project leadership

SQL querying

Python scripting

Microsoft 365 collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/Data Analytics/BI/Engineering

Tools

Power BI

PowerApps

SharePoint

Excel

SQL

Python

Microsoft 365

Job description

Leidos Digital seeks a Technical Project Leader – Senior BI / Power BI Builder to support U.S. Coast Guard digital transformation, automation, and decision-support initiatives.

The role combines technical leadership with Power BI development to deliver dashboards for mission visibility and executive decision-making. You will work with Coast Guard leaders, program managers, data engineers, cybersecurity teams, and stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable BI solutions that meet