Power BI Lead

POWER BI LEAD | Business Intelligence & Analytics

Experience: 7-8 Years | Function: Business Intelligence, Analytics & Reporting

Duration: One year extendable

ROLE SUMMARY:

We are seeking an experienced Power BI Lead to design, develop and govern scalable enterprise BI solutions using Power BI, Microsoft Fabric and the Azure data ecosystem. The role combines hands-on technical leadership, strong data modelling and visualisation expertise, team mentoring, and close engagement with business and technology stakeholders to deliver secure, high-performing and actionable analytics solutions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design and architect enterprise-grade BI solutions, semantic models and reusable datasets using Power BI, Microsoft Fabric and Azure data services.
• Define and enforce development standards for dimensional modelling, DAX, Power Query (M), report design, accessibility, optimization and documentation.
• Develop interactive dashboards, scorecards and reports aligned with business KPIs, operational needs and strategic objectives.
• Implement governance, workspace management, deployment pipelines, CI/CD, version control, Row-Level Security (RLS) and Object-Level Security (OLS).
• Integrate reporting solutions with Azure Synapse, Data Lake, Databricks, SQL Server, API Endpoints and other enterprise applications in collaboration with data engineering teams.
• Optimize large datasets, complex calculations, refresh processes and capacity utilisation to ensure scalability, reliability and strong user experience.
• Lead and mentor BI developers and analysts through solution reviews, code reviews, knowledge sharing and delivery oversight.
• Partner with business stakeholders, IT teams and senior leadership to translate requirements into measurable analytics outcomes and drive self-service BI adoption.
• Support solution demonstrations, project estimations, proposals, client workshops and continuous improvement using Fabric, Copilot and emerging BI/AI capabilities.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• 7-8 years of experience in Business Intelligence, Data Analytics or enterprise reporting, including 4-5+ years of strong hands-on Power BI experience.
• Advanced expertise in Power BI, DAX, Power Query (M), dashboard development, data visualisation and performance tuning.
• Strong knowledge of star schema, snowflake schema, dimensional modelling, data warehousing and semantic model design.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, relational databases, ETL/ELT workflows and the Azure data ecosystem, including Synapse, Data Lake, Databricks and Microsoft Fabric.
• Proven experience governing enterprise BI environments and leading BI projects or development teams.
• Excellent analytical, communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills, including interaction with senior and CXO-level stakeholders.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Microsoft Power BI or Fabric certification; experience with Agile delivery, enterprise analytics transformation and AI-enabled analytics.