BI Platforms Administrator; Microsoft Fabric​/Power BI

Position: BI Platforms Administrator (Microsoft Fabric/Power BI)
At Lilly, the work is demanding because patients are waiting. We unite caring with discovery to help make life better for people around the world, knowing that every decision, every detail, and every day matters. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, our over 50,000 employees around the globe take on complex challenges to discover and deliver life-changing medicines, strengthen how health is understood and managed, and support the communities we serve.

This is hard, urgent, selfless work-but it's work worth doing. If you're driven by purpose and ready to bring your best to work that truly matters for patients, we invite you to join us.

Come help us deliver cutting-edge Analytics Platforms with the power of AI and automation!

** The Tech@Lilly Team is Actively Looking for
** an experienced BI Platform Administrator.

Are you passionate about operating highly available analytics platforms, driving automation, and establishing strong governance frameworks? Are you energized by leading enterprise-scale deployments and optimizing end-to-end BI performance? If so, bring YOUR technical expertise to Lilly-where your work helps accelerate scientific discovery, strengthen decision-making, and ultimately improve patient outcomes.

** What You'll Be Doing:*
* You will serve as an Analytics Platform Administrator for Lilly's Power BI/Fabric platform-operating and administering the environment day to day, ensuring platform reliability, and enabling secure and scalable analytics adoption across the organization. You will collaborate closely with infrastructure, database, cloud (Azure & AWS), networking, firewall 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.

** How You'll Succeed:*
* + 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), including but not limited to certificate renewals, password rotations, security patching, and quality document and SharePoint article 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 platform SME for day-to-day Fabric/Power BI operations, governance, and upgrades-supporting stakeholders, assessing operational risks, and communicating platform status.

** What You Should Bring:*
* + 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.

+ In-depth expertise with On-Premises Data Gateways-including architecture internals, installation, detailed configuration (clustering, service accounts, network ports, proxy settings), performance tuning, troubleshooting, and certificate/credential management across enterprise environments.

+ Expert-level ability to generate, collect, and analyze diagnostic logs for both Microsoft Fabric (capacity metrics, workspace activity, Spark logs, pipeline run logs) and On-Premises Data Gateways (gateway logs, mashup engine logs, performance counters) to support incident investigation and proactive health monitoring.

+ Strong networking fundamentals as applied to Fabric and Power BI SaaS deployments-including firewall rules, private endpoints, Azure Service Tags, proxy configurations, DNS resolution, and Azure Service Bus Relay behavior-with the ability to partner effectively with Network teams to diagnose and resolve connectivity issues.

+ 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…