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BI Platform Engineer

Job in London, Greater London, W1B, England, UK
Listing for: Canada Life
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-10-18
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Data Engineering, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, IT Specialist
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Permanent Full Time

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Are you a Business Intelligence platform engineer with a passion for administration automation reliability and support We are looking for a BI Platform Engineer to operate and evolve our enterprise BI platform so teams can deliver trusted performant insights s role is handson with ownership of platform capabilities governance and lifecycle from design choices and standards to deployment automation monitoring and incident response.

As a key member of the data & analytics function you will collaborate across engineering architecture and business teams to enable self service analytics while ensuring security compliance and cost efficiency.

What you will do

  • Administer and operate Power BI / Microsoft Fabric (work spaces capacity semantic models dataflows pipelines refresh schedules gateways and RLS).
  • Administer and operate Cognos and Tableau platform (Capacity workspace processes etc).
  • Build and maintain reusable platform capabilities (workspace provisioning policies and guardrails) to accelerate analytics delivery.
  • Implement governance and standards specifications including tenant settings auditing and segregation of administrative access across environments (dev/test/prod).
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex incidents; perform rootcause analysis; create runbooks and postincident improvements in partnership with Infrastructure Identity and Security teams.
  • Automate platform operations using Power Shell Python and Dev Ops tooling (Azure Dev Ops/Git Hub; Fabric/Power BI REST and Admin APIs; Infrastructure as Code such as Bicep/Terraform).
  • Implement security and compliance controls (AAD integration Purview labels sensitivity classifications access reviews and audit log monitoring).
  • Establish observability and SLOs for the BI platform (usage telemetry capacity health refresh reliability); build operational dashboards and alerts.
  • Manage capacity planning licensing and cost optimization across tenants and work spaces.
  • Partner with data engineering solution architecture and business stakeholders to enable self service analytics; provide enablement and best practice guidance.
  • Support a multitool ecosystem when required (e.g. Tableau/Cognos) and lead migrations to modern BI platform capabilities.

What you will bring

  • A university or college education in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience.
  • 5 years in BI platform administration/engineering and 3 years operating Power BI Service/Microsoft Fabric in production.
  • 3 years operating Cognos Business Analytics and Business Intelligence in production.
  • 3 years operating Tableau in production.
  • Handson experience with Microsoft tools for data and analytics:
    Power BI Power Platform Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse/Warehouse) Azure Data Factory and Azure services.
  • Working knowledge of Databricks or Azure Synapse.
  • Experience with CI/CD for BI artifacts Git integration and deployment pipelines; strong scripting skills (Power Shell/Python).
  • Enterprise gateway administration and hybrid connectivity (on premises data sources networking fundamentals SSL/TLS certificates).
  • Securityfirst mindset with experience implementing RLS data protection and auditing; familiarity with M365 Purview.
  • Strong communication skills customer focus and relationship management; able to work through ambiguity and shifting priorities.
  • Effective time management prioritization and decision making skills.
  • Nice to have:
    Tableau/Cognos administration SQL Server/Analysis Services DAX/SQL expertise.
  • Reliability Status Security Clearance this can only be completed with candidates who receive an offer of employment. This is a personal security status that is required as a condition of employment before an employee can gain access to Protected B information assets or work sites as…
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