BI Platform Engineer
Job in
Toronto, Ontario, C6A, Canada
Listed on 2026-10-18
Listing for:
Canada Life Group
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-10-18
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Data Engineering, Azure, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
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.
- 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.
- 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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