Power Platform Architect

Salary: £? - ? per year

• Significant experience delivering Power BI solutions within a large or technically complex environment
• Previous experience as a BI Architect, Power BI Architect, Data Solution Architect or senior BI technical lead
• Strong knowledge of Power BI across both design and production environments
• A good understanding of enterprise data modelling and reporting architecture
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with analytical data platforms
• Experience connecting reporting tools to cloud-hosted data environments
• Knowledge of access controls, platform administration and information security
• Experience improving the reliability and performance of business-critical reporting
• Previous involvement in a BI modernisation, consolidation or technology change programme
• An understanding of release management and controlled development practices
• The ability to explain technical recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders
• Confidence working across architecture, engineering, delivery and business teams
• Exposure to Microsoft Fabric, Azure data services, automated deployment and release processes, Git or similar version-control tools, enterprise reporting governance, platform monitoring and capacity planning, or large-scale data or cloud transformation programmes would be useful

• Review the existing reporting environment and identify duplication, technical limitations and areas of unnecessary complexity
• Recommend a clearer architecture and operating model for business intelligence
• Define technical principles covering data modelling, platform access, environments, ownership and change control
• Help create common reporting components that can be reused across different business areas
• Work with data engineering teams to ensure reporting solutions align with the central data estate
• Support the movement of suitable reporting services onto Microsoft technology
• Review technical designs and provide guidance to developers and engineers
• Investigate performance, refresh and data-quality issues
• Ensure reporting solutions are secure, maintainable and suitable for wider enterprise use
• Help establish a controlled approach to testing, releases and ongoing support
• Work with business teams to understand what information they need and how it should be delivered
• Produce recommendations and a practical roadmap for the next stage of the organisations BI development

• Architect
• Azure
• Business Intelligence
• Cloud
• Fabric
• Git
• Support
• Power BI
• SQL
• Security

We are supporting an established organisation that is reviewing how reporting and business intelligence are delivered across the business. This is a senior contract role based in London on a hybrid working pattern, with Power BI as the main technology, but the scope is broader than dashboard development. We are looking for someone to help assess the current setup, introduce a more joined-up approach to reporting, and provide technical leadership alongside practical delivery.

Interviews are being held immediately.