Overview
Parts Authority is one of the largest wholesale automotive parts distributors in the United States, operating 250+ warehouse locations nationwide. We serve thousands of professional automotive repair shops, dealerships, and fleet operators with a comprehensive catalog of OEM and aftermarket parts.
Our analytics and data platform is modern and growing: We are investing aggressively in both enterprise BI and AI-driven analytics to become the most data-driven company in our industry.
We are seeking a BI Team Lead Sr. who thrives as a coach/player — someone who can lead a team and build production-quality dashboards. This is a hands-on leadership role, not a pure management position. Reporting to the VP of BI (with guidance from the CIO), you will serve as the day-to-day operational leader of our BI delivery team.
What You’ll Do
Hands-On Report & Dashboard Development & Governance
This is where you’ll spend most of your time. You will personally build BI solutions across Power BI, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric. We need a leader who stays deeply technical.
- Build production Power BI dashboards, reports, semantic models, and DAX measures that give every part of the business a trusted, governed source of truth for their KPIs.
- Design and maintain the enterprise semantic layer — shared datasets with standardized dimension models, deployment pipelines, content certification, and row-level security that scales from branch managers to the C-suite.
- Set the quality bar: conduct code reviews before production deployment, enforce visual design standards, and own the enterprise data dictionary so every metric has a clear definition and owner.
- Prototype dashboards and reports directly with stakeholders, iterate rapidly, and hand off maintenance to the team once stable.
Team Leadership & Delivery Operations
You will build a high-performing, structured team from a talented group that needs clear direction and process.
- Lead a distributed BI team across the US and India. Define roles, set performance objectives, and establish a predictable sprint-based delivery cadence.
- Own the BI request backlog end-to-end: triage, prioritize by business impact, assign work, and enforce delivery SLAs so stakeholders always know what’s coming and when.
Stakeholder Partnership
You will be the person stakeholders trust to get them the data they need.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for BI requests across Sales, Finance, Operations, and Executive leadership — translating ambiguous business questions into precise analytics requirements.
- Manage expectations proactively: run a formal intake process, communicate timelines clearly, and push back on scope creep constructively.
- Champion data-driven decision-making by presenting dashboard releases, tracking adoption, and aligning the BI roadmap with evolving business priorities.
What Success Looks Like
- In your first 30 days: You know every person on the team and their strengths, key report and semantic models in production, outstanding analytics request, and stakeholder’s priorities. Team roles are clearly defined and the request intake process is live.
- In 60 days: New enterprise dashboards and reports are live and actively used. The team has a predictable delivery rhythm and stakeholders see tangible progress.
- In 3 months: Enterprise dashboards and semantic models are in production across key business functions. Power BI adoption is growing steadily, and the governance framework is operational.
- In 6 months: Self-service analytics is working — a growing base of monthly users can answer recurring questions without IT involvement. AI capabilities are being integrated into governed dashboards and stakeholder satisfaction is consistently strong.
