Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Significant experience delivering Power BI solutions within a large or technically complex environment
- Previous experience as a BI Architect, Power BI Architect, Data Solution Architect or senior BI technical lead
- Strong knowledge of Power BI across both design and production environments
- A good understanding of enterprise data modelling and reporting architecture
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with analytical data platforms
- Experience connecting reporting tools to cloud-hosted data environments
- Knowledge of access controls, platform administration and information security
- Experience improving the reliability and performance of business-critical reporting
- Previous involvement in a BI modernisation, consolidation or technology change programme
- An understanding of release management and controlled development practices
- The ability to explain technical recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders
- Confidence working across architecture, engineering, delivery and business teams
- Exposure to Microsoft Fabric, Azure data services, automated deployment and release processes, Git or similar version-control tools, enterprise reporting governance, platform monitoring and capacity planning, or large-scale data or cloud transformation programmes would be useful
Responsibilities
- Review the existing reporting environment and identify duplication, technical limitations and areas of unnecessary complexity
- Recommend a clearer architecture and operating model for business intelligence
- Define technical principles covering data modelling, platform access, environments, ownership and change control
- Help create common reporting components that can be reused across different business areas
- Work with data engineering teams to ensure reporting solutions align with the central data estate
- Support the movement of suitable reporting services onto Microsoft technology
- Review technical designs and provide guidance to developers and engineers
- Investigate performance, refresh and data-quality issues
- Ensure reporting solutions are secure, maintainable and suitable for wider enterprise use
- Help establish a controlled approach to testing, releases and ongoing support
- Work with business teams to understand what information they need and how it should be delivered
- Produce recommendations and a practical roadmap for the next stage of the organisations BI development
Technologies
- Architect
- Azure
- Business Intelligence
- Cloud
- Fabric
- Git
- Support
- Power BI
- SQL
- Security
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We are supporting an established organisation that is reviewing how reporting and business intelligence are delivered across the business. This is a senior contract role based in London on a hybrid working pattern, with Power BI as the main technology, but the scope is broader than dashboard development. We are looking for someone to help assess the current setup, introduce a more joined-up approach to reporting, and provide technical leadership alongside practical delivery. Interviews are being held immediately.
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Power Platform Architect employer: Akkodis
As a Power Platform Architect with us, you'll join a forward-thinking organisation in London that values innovation and collaboration. We offer a dynamic hybrid work environment, competitive daily rates, and a culture that fosters professional growth through challenging projects and continuous learning opportunities. Our commitment to employee development and a supportive atmosphere makes us an excellent employer for those seeking meaningful and rewarding careers in business intelligence.
