Power BI/Fabric administration

Job Description: Power BI/Fabric administration

Location: Plano, TX - Hybrid

Employment Type: Contract

Duration: Long term contract  

Job Responsibilities

• Modern Visualization Platform Enablement and Sustain
• Manage and mentor a team of cloud visualization platform infrastructure SMEs, providing technical leadership and direction.
• Provide guidance and support for application migration, modernization, and transformation projects, leveraging cloud-native technologies and methodologies.
• Implement cloud infrastructure policies, standards, and best practices, ensuring cloud environment adherence to security and regulatory requirements.
• Design, deploy and optimize cloud-based visualization infrastructure using Azure/AWS services that meet the performance, availability, scalability, and reliability needs of our applications and services.
• Own and manage platform lifecycle – patching, upgrades, capacity planning, performance tuning, and financial/license management.
• Enable new features, tools, and innovations that enhance user experience and productivity in collaboration with new product innovation and enterprise architecture team.
• Drive troubleshooting of cloud infrastructure issues, ensuring timely resolution and root cause analysis by partnering with global cloud center of excellence & enterprise application teams
• User access management. Managing user accounts, permissions, and roles.
• Capacity management. Managing  capacities, to ensure sufficient resources for user needs.
• Platform configuration. Configuring settings, policies, and features to align with organizational needs and security requirements.
• Governance and compliance: Ensuring compliance with organizational policies and industry regulations.
• Monitoring and Auditing: Tracking usage, performance, and auditing activity.
• Establish and maintain effective communication and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, including business leaders, developers, customers, and vendors.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate provisioning and management of cloud resources. Write and maintain scripts for automation and deployment using PowerShell, Python, or Azure/AWS CLI.
• Work with stakeholders to document architectures, configurations, and best practices.
• Design and implement cloud security principles around data protection, identity and access Management (IAM), compliance and regulatory, threat detection and prevention, disaster recovery and business continuity.

Qualifications

• At least 13 to 16 years of experience in managing infrastructure, architecture and operations on any two of the visualization technologies – Power BI/Fabric or Tableau (preferred) – with at least 6 to 8 years of experience in IT cloud infrastructure, architecture and operations.
• Extensive knowledge of cloud architecture, design, and deployment principles and practices, including containers, and DevOps.
• Extensive expertise in Windows and/or Linux administration.
• Familiarity of visualization technology’s  REST APIs for automation and management.
• Knowledge of Power BI tenant settings, workspaces, gateways, and dataflows is preferred.
• Knowledge  of other Visualization tools like Tableau, SAP Business Objects AWS QuickSight, etc.
• Knowledge of different Azure/AWS database platforms and SQL.
• Extensive expertise in Azure/AWS networking and security fundamentals, including network endpoints & network security groups, firewalls, proxy, external/internal DNS, load balancers, virtual networks and subnets.
• Extensive expertise in scripting and automation tools, such as PowerShell, Python, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Certifications in Azure/AWS platform administration, networking and security are preferred.
• Strong self-organization, time management and prioritization skills
• A high level of attention to detail, excellent follow through, and reliability
• Strong collaboration, teamwork and relationship building skills across multiple levels and functions in the organization
• Ability to listen, establish rapport, and credibility as a strategic partner vertically within the business unit or function, as well as with leadership and functional teams
• Strategic thinker focused on business value results that utilize technical solutions
• Strong communication skills in writing, speaking, and presenting
• Capable to work effectively in a multi-tasking environment.
• Fluent in English language.