Senior Data & AI Consultant (Azure & Power BI)

Lantern; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Lantern is seeking a hands-on Data & AI Senior Consultant to design and deliver modern data, analytics, and AI solutions across Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and Azure.

You will work directly with client stakeholders and Lantern delivery teams to translate business needs into secure, governed, and scalable solutions that support analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and intelligent applications.

Qualifications

• 5+ years delivering data, analytics, or AI solutions in client-facing environments.
• Hands-on with Azure Databricks, Fabric, or Power BI and Azure data ecosystem.
• Proficient in SQL and Python/PySpark with ETL/ELT and data modeling.
• Knowledge of lakehouse or warehouse delivery and semantic models.
• Experience with data governance, security, quality, metadata, lineage, observability, CI/CD, cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate discovery sessions, gather requirements, and translate business needs into practical solution designs and delivery plans.
• Design, build, test, and deploy lakehouse, warehouse, batch, streaming, and real-time data solutions using Databricks, Fabric, Power BI, and Azure.
• Develop data pipelines, transformations, models, semantic layers, dashboards, notebooks, and reusable technical components.
• Apply data governance, quality, metadata, lineage, observability, security, and cost-management practices throughout delivery.
• Implement CI/CD, DevOps, DataOps, source-control, testing, and deployment patterns for modern data platforms.
• Own assigned workstreams, communicate progress and risks, troubleshoot issues, and help deliver high-quality outcomes on time.
• Contribute to estimates, proposals, demonstrations, accelerators, technical documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Mentor consultants and engineers, participate in peer reviews, and collaborate with architects and project leaders on technical decisions.

Skills

5+ years experience in data analytics/

Client-facing consulting

Strong stakeholder management

Independent work capability

Tools

Azure Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

SQL

Python/PySpark

Job description

Lantern is seeking a hands-on Data & AI Senior Consultant to design and deliver modern data, analytics, and AI solutions across Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and Azure.

You will work directly with client stakeholders and Lantern delivery teams to translate business needs into secure, governed, and scalable solutions that support analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and intelligent applications.