Close Power BI Lead
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced and strategic Power BI Governance & Enablement Lead to establish, administer, and continuously improve the company’s Power BI environment. This role will serve as the organization’s subject matter expert for Power BI, Microsoft Fabric integration, reporting governance, semantic modelling, security, best practices, and self-service analytics enablement.
Unlike a traditional Power BI Developer role, this position is focused on defining and enforcing standards, building governance processes, artifacts, and templates, enabling adoption, mentoring and training developers, and ensuring the organization delivers consistent, high-quality, scalable, and trusted analytics solutions.
The ideal candidate combines strong technical knowledge of Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, data modeling, and analytics architecture with exceptional leadership, communication, and organizational skills. This individual will act as the steward of the Power BI platform and help shape the future of analytics across the company.
Job Specification
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience working with Power BI, data analytics, business intelligence, or enterprise reporting platforms.
- Deep expertise in Power BI administration, governance, architecture, and semantic model design.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft Fabric, including Lakehouse, Warehouse, OneLake, Direct Lake, Data Factory, and Power BI integration.
- Extensive experience designing and managing enterprise semantic models, certified datasets, shared dimensions, and reusable reporting assets.
- Strong knowledge of Power BI security, including Row-Level Security (RLS), Object-Level Security (OLS), workspace governance, and data access management.
- Experience defining and implementing reporting standards, governance frameworks, development lifecycle processes, and best practices.
- Advanced knowledge of DAX, Power Query, and Power BI performance optimization techniques.
- Experience establishing KPI governance, data definitions, business metrics, and enterprise reporting standards.
- Strong understanding of dashboard design principles, user experience, and business-focused data visualization techniques.
- Experience developing training programs, documentation, templates, standards, and developer enablement materials.
- Familiarity with Power BI deployment pipelines, DevOps, source control, and CI/CD practices.
- Working knowledge of AI capabilities within Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft Copilot technologies.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to influence without direct authority and drive adoption across multiple business functions.