Senior Business Intelligence Architect

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Business Intelligence Architect based in the United States. We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Intelligence Architect to lead the design and evolution of enterprise analytics and reporting solutions. In this role, you will serve as a technical authority on Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, transforming complex business data into actionable insights that support strategic and operational decisions. You will collaborate with business leaders, finance teams, ERP stakeholders, developers, and data professionals to build scalable, secure, and reliable analytics solutions. Your expertise will help optimize reporting capabilities across financial management, project accounting, forecasting, resource planning, and business operations. You will also establish data governance standards, improve platform performance, and drive modern development practices across the analytics ecosystem. This remote opportunity is ideal for a strategic technical leader who combines advanced data architecture expertise with business acumen, stakeholder engagement, and a passion for mentoring others. Accountabilities - Enterprise analytics architecture: Lead the architecture, development, governance, optimization, and ongoing support of enterprise-wide Power BI and Microsoft Fabric solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with business objectives. - Data modeling and reporting: Design and maintain semantic models, dimensional data models, data marts, datasets, dashboards, KPIs, and executive reporting frameworks that provide actionable insights to business stakeholders.

- Business requirements and stakeholder collaboration: Partner with business leaders, finance teams, ERP stakeholders, developers, and data teams to understand reporting needs and translate business requirements into scalable analytics solutions. - ERP and financial analytics: Support reporting and analytics for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations and Project Operations, covering financial performance, project accounting, forecasting, utilization, resource management, and operational efficiency. - Power BI development and optimization: Develop, maintain, and optimize Power BI datasets, DAX calculations, Power Query (M) transformations, dataflows, and reporting frameworks to improve performance and usability. - Data governance and security: Establish and maintain analytics governance policies, development standards, access controls, security models, and deployment best practices to ensure data integrity, consistency, and compliance. - Development lifecycle and automation: Implement and manage source control, release management, version control, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes using Azure DevOps and Git. - Data quality and platform reliability: Ensure data accuracy and consistency with authoritative source systems, monitor production analytics environments, manage refresh processes, troubleshoot issues, and optimize platform performance. - Technology innovation: Evaluate emerging Microsoft technologies and analytics capabilities, recommending improvements that strengthen the organization's data architecture and reporting environment. - Technical leadership and mentoring: Mentor analytics developers and business intelligence professionals, promote best practices, and support continuous improvement across the analytics function. - Executive decision support: Collaborate with senior leadership to develop strategic dashboards, KPI frameworks, and advanced business insights that inform planning, forecasting, resource allocation, and organizational performance. Requirements - Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.