Microsoft Fabric and Power BI Lead

Role overview

Power BI responsibilities

• Develop and optimize reports, semantic models, Dataflows, and Paginated Reports using DAX, Power Query/M, data modeling, and supported query modes.
• Analyze performance across reports, visuals, models, refreshes, sources, and capacity; use Performance Analyzer, DAX Studio, and Tabular Editor.
• Administer Power BI Service workspaces, apps, models, dataflows, gateways, refreshes, security, and access.
• Monitor Premium and Fabric capacity; troubleshoot gateway, connectivity, refresh, deployment, and service issues.
• Support REST APIs, deployment, automation, governance, access controls, compliance, audit, risk management, and technical reviews.
• Set platform standards for workspaces, security, naming, content lifecycle, access, capacity, and certified or promoted content.
• Maintain documentation, runbooks, operational standards, and knowledge articles; identify risks, governance gaps, and technical debt.
• Provide technical guidance, recommendations, and code or model reviews to Power BI developers.

Microsoft Fabric and production support

• Support Fabric architecture and workloads including OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory/Pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, Notebooks, Semantic Models, capacity, and Monitoring Hub.
• Support Fabric readiness, onboarding, migration, architecture, security, monitoring, production implementation, and sustainable operating processes.
• Provide L2/L3 production support; own incidents through investigation and resolution and perform root-cause analysis for recurring issues.
• Coordinate with database, cloud, network, security, infrastructure, Microsoft, and vendor-support teams; communicate incidents, risks, dependencies, and recommendations.

Experience and qualifications

• Requires seven or more years of experience in Power BI, data analytics, or data-platform engineering.
• Requires Power BI administration, development, troubleshooting, production support, and report and semantic-model performance optimization experience.
• Requires hands-on experience with Paginated Reports, Dataflows, and enterprise gateways, plus working knowledge of Fabric architecture and workloads.
• Requires experience with enterprise governance, access management, risk, compliance, or similar platform controls.
• Experience in a structured production-support or IT service-management environment is preferred.

Required technical skills

• Power BI Service and Desktop; Microsoft Fabric architecture and platform concepts.
• OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Semantic Models, Data Factory/Pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, and Notebooks.
• Power BI administration, Premium and Fabric Capacity, DAX, Power Query/M, and data modeling.
• Import, DirectQuery, Composite Models, gateways, Dataflows, Paginated Reports, workspaces, apps, security, and access management.
• Power BI REST APIs, deployment processes, Fabric monitoring, governance, security, and capacity management.
• Performance Analyzer, DAX Studio, Tabular Editor, and report, model, refresh, and capacity optimization.

Preferred skills

• PowerShell or Python, SQL, Azure or Azure Data Factory, Git and CI/CD, Deployment Pipelines, and ServiceNow or a similar IT service-management platform are preferred.

Key competencies

• Seeks analytical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting ability, with a hands-on approach across development and platform administration.
• Requires ownership, incident-management capability, communication, stakeholder management, documentation, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.
• Requires translating complex technical issues into clear business communication and continuing to learn Fabric capabilities.

Work arrangement

• Employees work in the office at least three days per week and may work from home two days per week; some roles may have different or additional in-office expectations.

Schedule

• Full-time role with listed hours of 4:45 p.m. to 1:15 a.m.