Team Lead, Business Intelligence
harborglobal • Remote, Canada; Remote, United States; UK - Hybrid
Posted: June 26, 2026
Job Description
Harbor is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Team Lead – Business Intelligence to join our Financial Systems consulting team. This role combines people leadership with hands-on delivery, managing a team of BI Developers while actively contributing to client-facing engagements. The Team Lead will play a critical role in delivering high-quality financial reporting, analytics, and data-driven insights for our law firm clients. This individual will ensure strong alignment between client needs, internal standards, and technical best practices, while fostering a collaborative and high-performance team environment.
Harbor’s team of business and technology experts provides professional services firms with strategic consulting, software expertise, and data-driven solutions to enhance performance. We enable our clients to leverage their systems and data more effectively, helping them operate efficiently, strengthen client relationships, and improve profitability. This is a full-time, fully remote position that can be based anywhere in the United States, United Kingdom or Canada.
The Team Lead – Business Intelligence is responsible for leading a team of four BI Developers, balancing approximately 20% leadership responsibilities with 80% hands-on delivery and client utilization. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in law firm financial systems, reporting frameworks, and BI tools, along with proven leadership experience. This role requires a strong combination of technical capability, client engagement skills, and team management.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Team Leadership & Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of four Business Intelligence Developers
- Assign, prioritize, and monitor workloads to ensure timely delivery of high-quality outputs
- Conduct performance management activities, including coaching, feedback, and evaluations
- Foster a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing team culture
Client Delivery & Utilization (80%)
- Act as a hands-on contributor across BI projects, including report development, dashboard creation, semantic/tabular model design, and DAX measure development
- Partner with clients and internal stakeholders to gather, refine, and translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Deliver high-quality reporting and analytics solutions tailored to law firm operational needs
- Ensure adherence to BI development standards, data governance practices, and documentation requirements
Financial Reporting & Analytics
- Design and develop reporting solutions for key law firm financial metrics, including:
- Revenue, profitability, and realization
- Billing, collections, and Work in Progress (WIP)
- Timekeeper performance and utilization
- Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable, well-designed reports and dashboards
- Improve reporting efficiency through automation and optimized data models
Technical Oversight
- Provide guidance on BI tools and technologies (e.g., Power BI, Fabric, SQL, data lakes)
- Ensure data integrity, accuracy, and consistency across all reporting solutions
- Review and validate deliverables produced by team members
- Support best practices in semantic/tabular modeling, DAX, performance tuning, and solution design
Process Improvement & Innovation
- Identify opportunities to enhance reporting frameworks and analytics capabilities
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the BI function
- Stay current with emerging BI tools, trends, and law firm industry practices
Education, Experience, and Other Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience in Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, or a related field
- 2+ years of experience leading or managing technical teams
- Proven experience delivering financial reporting solutions, ideally within law firms or professional services
- Strong understanding of law firm financial concepts, including billing, collections, realization, and profitability
- Demonstrated ability to balance leadership responsibilities with hands-on delivery
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Finance, Accounting, Data Analytics, or relevant experience
Technical Skills
- Advanced proficiency in Power BI/Fabric, including semantic models, DAX measure development, and well-designed reports and dashboards
- Strong SQL and dimensional data modeling expertise, with the ability to design performant, maintainable datasets for reporting and analytics
- Experience with law firm financial systems (e.g., Elite, Aderant, or similar)
- Familiarity with data warehousing concepts and ETL processes
- Strong sense of report design, including visual aesthetics, usability, layout, and functional alignment with business workflows
- Familiarity with BI security concepts, including row-level security, workspace permissions, and controlled data access
Other Requirements
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- High level of attention to detail and commitment to quality
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities effectively
- Comfortable working in a client-facing, consulting environment
- Authorized to work in country of residence without restriction or sponsorship
Additional Content
Harbor is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Team Lead – Business Intelligence to join our Financial Systems consulting team. This role combines people leadership with hands-on delivery, managing a team of BI Developers while actively contributing to client-facing engagements. The Team Lead will play a critical role in delivering high-quality financial reporting, analytics, and data-driven insights for our law firm clients. This individual will ensure strong alignment between client needs, internal standards, and technical best practices, while fostering a collaborative and high-performance team environment.
Harbor’s team of business and technology experts provides professional services firms with strategic consulting, software expertise, and data-driven solutions to enhance performance. We enable our clients to leverage their systems and data more effectively, helping them operate efficiently, strengthen client relationships, and improve profitability. This is a full-time, fully remote position that can be based anywhere in the United States, United Kingdom or Canada.
The Team Lead – Business Intelligence is responsible for leading a team of four BI Developers, balancing approximately 20% leadership responsibilities with 80% hands-on delivery and client utilization. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in law firm financial systems, reporting frameworks, and BI tools, along with proven leadership experience. This role requires a strong combination of technical capability, client engagement skills, and team management.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Team Leadership & Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of four Business Intelligence Developers
- Assign, prioritize, and monitor workloads to ensure timely delivery of high-quality outputs
- Conduct performance management activities, including coaching, feedback, and evaluations
- Foster a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing team culture
Client Delivery & Utilization (80%)
- Act as a hands-on contributor across BI projects, including report development, dashboard creation, semantic/tabular model design, and DAX measure development
- Partner with clients and internal stakeholders to gather, refine, and translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Deliver high-quality reporting and analytics solutions tailored to law firm operational needs
- Ensure adherence to BI development standards, data governance practices, and documentation requirements
Financial Reporting & Analytics
- Design and develop reporting solutions for key law firm financial metrics, including:
- Revenue, profitability, and realization
- Billing, collections, and Work in Progress (WIP)
- Timekeeper performance and utilization
- Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, actionable, well-designed reports and dashboards
- Improve reporting efficiency through automation and optimized data models
Technical Oversight
- Provide guidance on BI tools and technologies (e.g., Power BI, Fabric, SQL, data lakes)
- Ensure data integrity, accuracy, and consistency across all reporting solutions
- Review and validate deliverables produced by team members
- Support best practices in semantic/tabular modeling, DAX, performance tuning, and solution design
Process Improvement & Innovation
- Identify opportunities to enhance reporting frameworks and analytics capabilities
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the BI function
- Stay current with emerging BI tools, trends, and law firm industry practices
Education, Experience, and Other Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience in Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, or a related field
- 2+ years of experience leading or managing technical teams
- Proven experience delivering financial reporting solutions, ideally within law firms or professional services
- Strong understanding of law firm financial concepts, including billing, collections, realization, and profitability
- Demonstrated ability to balance leadership responsibilities with hands-on delivery
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Finance, Accounting, Data Analytics, or relevant experience
Technical Skills
- Advanced proficiency in Power BI/Fabric, including semantic models, DAX measure development, and well-designed reports and dashboards
- Strong SQL and dimensional data modeling expertise, with the ability to design performant, maintainable datasets for reporting and analytics
- Experience with law firm financial systems (e.g., Elite, Aderant, or similar)
- Familiarity with data warehousing concepts and ETL processes
- Strong sense of report design, including visual aesthetics, usability, layout, and functional alignment with business workflows
- Familiarity with BI security concepts, including row-level security, workspace permissions, and controlled data access
Other Requirements
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- High level of attention to detail and commitment to quality
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities effectively
- Comfortable working in a client-facing, consulting environment
- Authorized to work in country of residence without restriction or sponsorship