Spotfire Consultant

Highnic; City of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Central London is seeking a Spotfire Lead Consultant to lead the migration of Spotfire reports to Power BI. The successful candidate will need strong data modelling skills, a deep understanding of Spotfire's frameworks, and experience in BI analytics. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders and providing performance engineering guidance. This is a contract position offering a hybrid working model.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in BI & analytics with 5+ years in Spotfire.
• Deep technical expertise in Spotfire visual and scripting frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with IronPython scripting and Power BI development.

Responsibilities

• Lead Spotfire-to-Power BI migration and simplify dashboards.
• Conduct detailed analysis of Spotfire for functional specifications.
• Validate migrated Power BI reports meet original Spotfire intent.

Skills

Spotfire Reports/Dashboards Development

BI & Analytics Experience

Data Modelling

IronPython Scripting

Power BI Knowledge

SQL Proficiency

Analytical Skills

Job description

Spotfire Lead Consultant (Spotfire to Power BI Migration)

Location: Central London & Remote

Type: Contract

Spotfire Architect with strong data modelling skills to lead and support the migration of complex Spotfire reports to Power BI. The role requires deep technical expertise in Spotfire s visual and scripting frameworks, alongside the ability to reverse‑engineer, redesign and optimise data models for scalable, high‑performance reporting in Power BI. This role is critical to navigating functional parity, data transformation and performance alignment between platforms, working closely with business users, report owners and Power BI engineers.

Experience

• Developed 20+ reports/dashboards in Spotfire
• 8+ years of experience in BI & analytics with at least 5 years in Spotfire (including architecture, scripting, and advanced configurations)
• Strong experience with data modelling for BI platforms; dimensional modelling, fact/dimension tables, normalisation/denormalisation
• Hands‑on expertise with IronPython scripting, custom expressions, data functions (TERR/Python/R) and Spotfire APIs
• Working knowledge of Power BI report development and differences between Spotfire and Power BI capabilities
• Proficient in SQL, data integration (flat files, APIs, databases), ETL logic interpretation
• Understanding of functional and visual parity considerations between BI tools
• Strong analytical, debugging, communication skills to interface with stakeholders and migration engineers

The Role

• Act as the technical lead for Spotfire-to-Power BI migration, focusing on architecting and simplifying complex Spotfire dashboards
• Reverse engineer Spotfire DXP files including data tables, custom expressions, R/TERR scripts, IronPython automation, document properties
• Conduct detailed analysis of Spotfire markings, filters and visual structures to produce functional specification documents for migration
• Define and redesign semantic data models (star/snowflake schemas) suitable for Power BI
• Collaborate with data engineers and Power BI developers to align source data, dataflows and model transformations
• Work with business stakeholders to define functional parity, consolidate multiple versions and recommend optimisations
• Provide guidance on performance engineering approaches in Power BI, including model size reduction, incremental refresh, composite models, DirectQuery/Import trade‑offs
• Support UAT by validating that migrated Power BI reports meet original Spotfire intent and business KPIs

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