Sr PowerBI Platform Engineer

Senior Bi Platform & Analytics Engineer

Location: Remote

Rate: Negotiable

Duration: 6 month (can extend or convert)

We are seeking a senior-level bi professional to serve as the technical owner of our Microsoft reporting and analytics platforms. This role is critical to ensuring the stability, security, governance, and long-term health of our enterprise bi environment while enabling scalable, trusted analytics across the organization.

This position blends platform administration, security coordination, and senior-level bi development, and partners closely with security, infrastructure, and data teams to deliver reliable Microsoft-based analytical solutions at enterprise scale.

Key Responsibilities Platform Ownership & Administration

• Own the installation, configuration, administration, patching, and lifecycle management of enterprise bi and reporting platforms
• Serve as the primary liaison between bi and security teams, ensuring compliance with internal security and governance standards
• Administer and support:
• Sql server analysis services (ssas – tabular)
• Sql server reporting services (ssrs)
• Power bi gateway (on‑prem and hybrid)
• Power bi service tenant settings, capacities, and governance controls

Data Platform Enablement

• Integrate and support power bi dataflows within governed enterprise reporting architectures
• Enable analytics solutions backed by data warehouses and data lakes
• Ensure reporting assets align with enterprise data standards, lineage, and certification practices

Automation & Operational Excellence

• Develop and maintain powershell automation for deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and administration
• Automate bi platform operations across azure and on‑prem/hybrid environments
• Reduce operational risk through standardization, proactive monitoring, and documented best practices

Analytics & Semantic Modeling

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-scale ssas tabular models
• Build and support power bi datasets and reports used across the organization
• Develop paginated reports using power bi report builder for operational and executive reporting needs

Preferred / Added Advantage Experience

• Planning and executing power bi tenant‑to‑tenant migrations, including:
• Workspace, dataset, report, and app migration
• Power bi gateway reconfiguration and validation
• Security model, role mapping, and access validation
• Capacity and tenant-setting alignment
• Partnering with security, identity, and infrastructure teams (azure ad, service principals, permissions)
• Post‑migration validation of performance, refresh reliability, and access controls
• Experience using power bi apis, scripting, deployment pipelines, or custom tooling for automation and migration

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in bi, analytics, or data platform engineering
• Deep expertise with Microsoft bi technologies (Power BI, SSAS, SSRS)
• Strong powershell scripting and automation experience
• Experience operating bi platforms in regulated or security-conscious environments
• Ability to operate as a senior individual contributor and platform owner