Power Platform Solutions Architect

razorblue role:

Reporting to the Enterprise Solution Architect, the Power BI & Microsoft Fabric Solutions Architect is a senior member of the Solution Design team, responsible for designing, governing, and delivering modern Microsoft data and analytics solutions across razorblue's client base.

This role combines deep technical expertise with commercial awareness and excellent customer engagement skills, helping organisations transform data into meaningful business insight through Microsoft's modern analytics platform.

You'll work closely with customers, Solution Architects, Account Management, Developers, and Project Delivery teams to ensure all proposed solutions are scalable, secure, commercially viable, and aligned with Microsoft best practice.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience across the Microsoft data ecosystem, with particular focus on Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Microsoft SQL, Azure Data Services, and Microsoft 365, alongside a good understanding of AI-driven analytics including Microsoft Copilot.

You'll be comfortable leading discovery workshops, designing enterprise reporting platforms, advising customers on data strategy, and supporting project delivery from initial concept through to successful adoption.

This is a customer-facing role requiring excellent communication skills, commercial awareness, and the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Our ideal candidate is passionate about helping organisations make better decisions through data.

You'll enjoy solving complex business problems, designing scalable analytics platforms, and helping customers modernise legacy reporting solutions using Microsoft's latest technologies.

Customer service is paramount to us, which is why we're looking for someone who combines exceptional technical knowledge with outstanding communication and consultancy skills.

Solution Design & Pre-Sales (40%)

• Lead the design of modern Microsoft data and analytics solutions for new and existing customers.

• Produce and review High Level Designs (HLDs) and technical documentation aligned to razorblue standards.

• Design enterprise analytics solutions using Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, SQL, One Lake, Dataflows Gen2, Lake houses, Warehouses and Semantic Models.

• Design scalable reporting architectures supporting operational, management and executive reporting.

• Support customers in defining reporting strategies, KPI frameworks and self-service BI capabilities.

• Lead customer workshops to gather reporting, analytics and data requirements.

• Present proposed technical solutions to both technical and business stakeholders.

• Support Account Managers and Solution Architects with technical proposals, Statements of Work and project scoping.

Microsoft Data Platform & Analytics Strategy (20%)

• Act as the subject matter expert for Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and Microsoft's modern analytics platform.

• Advise customers on data governance, security, data modelling and reporting best practice.

• Help organisations modernise legacy reporting platforms, spreadsheets and disconnected data sources.

• Design data integration solutions across Microsoft 365, Azure, SQL Server and third-party applications.

• Support the adoption of Microsoft Fabric capabilities including Real-Time Intelligence, Data Engineering, Data Science and One Lake where appropriate.

• Promote best practice around semantic modelling, DAX optimisation, report performance and workspace governance.

• Stay current with Microsoft's roadmap across Fabric, Power BI, Copilot and AI-powered analytics.

Project Delivery & Technical Leadership (20%)

• Work closely with Project Managers, Consultants and Developers to support successful project delivery.

• Provide technical leadership throughout implementation projects.

• Support complex troubleshooting across customer reporting and analytics environments.

• Ensure solutions align with security, governance and operational best practice.

• Support testing, validation, deployment and customer handover.

• Contribute to continuous improvement of delivery methodologies and technical standards.

Mentoring & Knowledge…