Technical Specialist

Location: Fairland

Description

Hello Future Technical Specialist

Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.

As part of our talented team, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change.

Responsible for the strategic planning, design, and development of enterprise-wide IT infrastructure architecture to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with current and future business needs. Collaborate across functions to translate business strategies into robust technology frameworks that drive operational efficiency and enable innovation..

Are you someone who can

Administer and manage the end-to-end Power BI and Microsoft Fabric platform (Capacities, Work spaces, Tenant Settings).

Design and implement Fabric architectures including Lakehouse, Warehouse, Pipelines, Notebooks, Semantic Models, and Dataflows Gen
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Manage Power BI Premium / Fabric capacity sizing, scaling, chargeback models, and utilization optimization. Monitor and analyze capacity metrics (CU usage, background operations, interactive workloads, refresh concurrency, throttling).

Lead troubleshooting of platform-level issues including refresh failures, throttling, memory pressure, gateway bottlenecks, and service degradation.

Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise On-Premises Data Gateway clusters (high availability and performance).

Configure and tune gateway settings (connection pools, spooling, memory thresholds, concurrency limits).

Manage secure connectivity to on-prem and cloud data sources (SQL Server, Oracle, Hive/Cloudera, SAP, REST APIs).

Diagnose and resolve TLS/SSL, certificate, proxy, DNS, and authentication-related connectivity issues.

Design and maintain enterprise-grade data architectures (on-prem and cloud).

Build data ingestion frameworks, storage solutions, and process pipelines. Integrate Fabric workloads with existing enterprise data platforms and cloud services.

Ensure system health and performance aligned with SLAs and best practices.

Optimize infrastructure for analytics workloads (batch, streaming, BI refresh, AI workloads).

Provide Level 2/3 support for business-critical analytics platforms.

Conduct root cause analysis on dataset refresh, pipeline, gateway, and capacity incidents.

Monitor logs, telemetry, Admin APIs, and platform metrics. Manage Severity A incident with Microsoft Support and drive root-cause resolution.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Power BI and Fabric artefacts (PBIP projects, Semantic Models, Notebooks, Pipelines).

Integrate Power BI/Fabric deployments with Git-based source control (Bitbucket, Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub).

Automate platform monitoring, governance checks, and operational reporting using Power Shell, REST APIs, and Admin APIs.

Implement Infrastructure as Code and configuration management where applicable.

Ensure compliance with enterprise security, audit, and regulatory requirements.

Configure and enforce Power BI tenant settings, workspace governance, endorsement models, and data access controls.

Implement secure secret management using Azure Key Vault and approved PAM solutions.

Apply data security best practices including RLS, sensitivity labels, and information protection.

Work closely with business units, BI developers, data engineers, architects, and leadership.

Act as the senior technical authority and SME for Power BI and Fabric across the organization.

Mentor junior specialists and establish platform standards, runbooks, and best practices.

Translate technical platform capabilities into business value and operational impact.

You’ll benefit from our changeable benefits like:

Inspiring work environment

Work that is challenging

Space to make a difference.

Opportunities to innovate.

Focus on health and wellbeing (onsite wellness center, gym and crèche at our main campus to innovative employee wellbeing and financial fitness programmes)

Resources to help you with your professional development.

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