Description

Key Responsibilities:
Leadership & Delivery:

• Lead a team of Power BI developers, analysts, and support resources.
• Prioritize and manage reporting demand, enhancements, defects, and production support activities.
• Act as the technical and functional lead for Power BI initiatives.
• Drive offshore team enablement, knowledge sharing, and work delegation.
• Ensure adherence to delivery timelines, quality standards, and SLAs.

Business & Stakeholder Management:

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand reporting and analytics requirements.
• Translate business needs into actionable reporting solutions and KPIs.
• Facilitate requirement workshops, solution reviews, and user acceptance testing.
• Provide executive-level reporting insights and recommendations.

Solution Design & Development:

• Design and develop enterprise-scale dashboards, scorecards, and self-service reporting solutions.
• Build and optimize semantic models, data models, measures, and calculations using DAX.
• Develop reusable reporting frameworks and visualization standards.
• Define reporting architecture and best practices.

Data & Integration:

• Work with Data Engineering teams to define data requirements and optimize datasets.
• Integrate Power BI with Azure Databricks, Fabric, SQL Server, Synapse, Snowflake, and other enterprise platforms.
• Ensure data quality, consistency, and reporting performance.

Governance & Administration:

• Establish Power BI governance, security, and deployment standards.
• Manage workspaces, apps, access controls, and Row-Level Security (RLS).
• Monitor platform usage, refresh schedules, gateway health, and capacity utilization.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise data governance policies.

Performance & Optimization:

• Optimize report rendering, DAX calculations, and dataset performance.
• Identify and resolve data refresh failures and reporting bottlenecks.
• Drive continuous improvement and automation initiatives.

AMS / Production Support:

• Oversee L2/L3 support activities for Power BI solutions.
• Manage incidents, problem management, root cause analysis, and preventive actions.
• Maintain operational documentation, SOPs, and knowledge repositories.

Required Skills:

• 8–12 years of BI and analytics experience.
• 5 years of hands-on Power BI development experience.
• Strong expertise in:
• Power BI Service
• Power BI Desktop
• DAX
• Power Query (M)
• Semantic Models
• Data Modeling
• Microsoft Fabric
• Strong SQL skills.
• Experience with Azure Data Platform (Databricks, Synapse, Azure SQL, ADLS).
• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD deployment practices.
• Understanding of data governance, security, and reporting best practices.
• Experience leading onsite-offshore delivery teams.

Preferred Certifications:

• Microsoft PL-300 – Power BI Data Analyst
• Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
• Azure Data Engineer Associate
• Agile/Scrum certifications (preferred)

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree