Associate - PowerBI Platform Administrator

What You’ll Be Doing:

You will serve as an Analytics Platform Administrator for Lilly’s Power BI/Fabric platform—driving architecture decisions, ensuring platform reliability, and enabling secure and scalable analytics adoption across the organization. You will collaborate closely with infrastructure, database, cloud, and security teams to integrate platforms into a modern analytics ecosystem. You will also help drive platform optimization, automation, and operational excellence across global environments.

• Lead installation, upgrades, and large-scale deployments of Fabric/Power BI Report Server and Fabric/Power BI Service across Dev, QA, and Production environments.
• Design and maintain high-availability, clustered, and failover configurations to support enterprise BI workloads.
• Plan and execute patches, security updates, and version upgrades with minimal business disruption.
• Perform regular Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) that includes but not limited to certificate renewal, password rotations, security patching, qualify documents and SharePoint articles updates.
• Optimize Fabric/Power BI Gateway performance, Dataflow efficiency, and dataset refresh reliability.
• Define, implement, and enforce governance for work spaces, datasets, reports, permissions, and content lifecycle management.
• Perform regular audits and generate insights on usage, refresh schedules, performance, and capacity utilization.
• Develop automation scripts and Dev Ops pipelines using Fabric/Power BI REST APIs, Power Shell, and related tools to reduce manual administrative effort.
• Implement automated inventory management, monitoring, and usage tracking.
• Partner with infrastructure, network, database, cloud, and security teams to troubleshoot complex issues and improve platform stability.
• Support integrations across Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, and hybrid environments.
• Lead capacity planning, platform scaling, performance tuning, and resource optimization initiatives.
• Mentor junior administrators, establish SOPs, and drive standard methodologies for platform operations.
• Act as the enterprise SME for Fabric/Power BI architecture, governance, and upgrades—guiding stakeholders, assessing risks, and communicating platform strategy.

• Deep understanding of Fabric/Power BI architecture, including capacity management, HA/DR strategies, and system integration patterns.
• Proven ability to optimize dataset refresh, gateway performance, and BI workload distribution.
• Expertise using Power Shell, Fabric/Power BI REST API, and automation methods for large-scale administrative tasks.
• Advanced SQL skills for troubleshooting, data validation, and performance analysis.
• Experience managing enterprise identity, security models, and SSO integrations (AD, Azure AD).
• Familiarity with cloud ecosystems (Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks) and hybrid analytics deployments.
• Experience with version control (Git) and Dev Ops-style workflows.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to translate business requirements into platform enhancements.
• Preferred experience administering BI tools such as Spotfire or SAP Business Objects.
• Advanced SQL capability and proficiency with Power Shell and Fabric/Power BI REST API.
• Strong documentation skills required to support Security and CSQA compliance.

• High School Diploma/GED with 5 plus years of experience administering Fabric/Power BI platforms.
• 5 Plus years of hands‑on experience with Fabric/Power BI Service and Power BI Report Server administration.
• Demonstrated experience with upgrades, configuration, monitoring, and enterprise deployments.
• Experience supporting enterprise BI operations, migrations, and DR planning.
• Experience with Service Now or equivalent ticketing systems.

Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F‑1 CPT, F‑1 OPT, F‑1 STEM OPT, J‑1, H‑1B, TN, O‑1, E‑3, H‑1B1, or L‑1.

• Onsite role located in Indianapolis, Indiana (relocation…