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BI Platform Engineer

Job in Toronto, Ontario, C6A, Canada
Listing for: Canada Life Group
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-10-18
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Data Engineering, Azure, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 85200 - 135200 CAD Yearly CAD 85200.00 135200.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

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 hands‑on, 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 root‑cause analysis; create runbooks and post‑incident 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 multi‑tool 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.
  • Hands‑on 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).
  • Security‑first 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…
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