Sr PowerBI Platform Engineer

Job#: 3032975

Job Description:
Senior BI Platform & Analytics Engineer

Location: Remote

Rate: Negotiable

Duration: 6 month (can extend or convert)

We are seeking a senior-level BI professional to serve as the technical owner of our Microsoft reporting and analytics platforms. This role is critical to ensuring the stability, security, governance, and long-term health of our enterprise BI environment while enabling scalable, trusted analytics across the organization.

This position blends platform administration, security coordination, and senior-level BI development, and partners closely with security, infrastructure, and data teams to deliver reliable Microsoft-based analytical solutions at enterprise scale.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Ownership & Administration

• Own the installation, configuration, administration, patching, and lifecycle management of enterprise BI and reporting platforms
• Serve as the primary liaison between BI and security teams, ensuring compliance with internal security and governance standards
• Administer and support:
  • SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS - Tabular)
  • SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
  • Power BI Gateway (on-prem and hybrid)
  • Power BI Service tenant settings, capacities, and governance controls

Data Platform Enablement

• Integrate and support Power BI Dataflows within governed enterprise reporting architectures
• Enable analytics solutions backed by Data Warehouses and Data Lakes
• Ensure reporting assets align with enterprise data standards, lineage, and certification practices

Automation & Operational Excellence

• Develop and maintain PowerShell automation for deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and administration
• Automate BI platform operations across Azure and on-prem/hybrid environments
• Reduce operational risk through standardization, proactive monitoring, and documented best practices

Analytics & Semantic Modeling

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-scale SSAS tabular models
• Build and support Power BI datasets and reports used across the organization
• Develop paginated reports using Power BI Report Builder for operational and executive reporting needs

Preferred / Added Advantage Experience

• Planning and executing Power BI tenant-to-tenant migrations, including:
  • Workspace, dataset, report, and app migration
  • Power BI Gateway reconfiguration and validation
  • Security model, role mapping, and access validation
  • Capacity and tenant-setting alignment
• Partnering with security, identity, and infrastructure teams (Azure AD, service principals, permissions)
• Post-migration validation of performance, refresh reliability, and access controls
• Experience using Power BI APIs, scripting, deployment pipelines, or custom tooling for automation and migration

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in BI, analytics, or data platform engineering
• Deep expertise with Microsoft BI technologies (Power BI, SSAS, SSRS)
• Strong PowerShell scripting and automation experience
• Experience operating BI platforms in regulated or security-conscious environments
• Ability to operate as a senior individual contributor and platform owner

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.