About this role
Role overview Join the Fabric Center of Excellence to operate, govern and continuously improve an enterprise-scale Microsoft Fabric and Power BI environment. This role combines platform administration, capacity and gateway management, automation, incident response and enablement of AI-powered analytics capabilities. Key responsibilities
• Administer Microsoft Fabric and Power BI tenant settings, capacities, domains, workspaces and access controls. • Establish and enforce governance standards across security, data protection, workspace lifecycle, deployment and operational compliance. • Monitor capacity health, utilization and throttling; support workload planning, performance optimization and proactive remediation. • Manage on-premises and virtual network data gateways, including clusters, data-source connectivity, upgrades, availability and troubleshooting. • Automate platform operations, monitoring, governance reporting and deployment activities using PowerShell, Python, REST APIs and CI/CD practices. • Own incident triage, root-cause analysis, service restoration, stakeholder communication and knowledge documentation. • Support AI Agents, Data Agents, ontologies and AI-ready semantic models through secure, governed platform patterns. • Partner with engineering, BI, security and business teams to onboard solutions and improve platform reliability and adoption. Required technical capabilities
• Strong hands-on experience in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI administration. • Capacity administration, monitoring, performance analysis and optimization. • Gateway architecture, configuration, high availability, upgrades and issue resolution. • Governance, access management, security controls, lifecycle management and operational standards. • Python, SQL, DAX, Fabric Notebooks, semantic models and Semantic Link Labs. • Working knowledge of AI Agents, Data Agents, ontology concepts and Copilot-enabled analytics. • Automation using PowerShell, REST APIs, Git and CI/CD pipelines. • Structured incident management, troubleshooting and clear technical documentation.
POSITION 01 | CONTINUED Qualifications and certifications
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience. • Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600) is mandatory. • Related certifications such as PL-300, DP-203, AI-102 or AZ-104 are preferred. • 3-5 years of relevant experience in data, analytics, BI or cloud platform engineering, including hands-on administration responsibilities. Preferred experience
• Supporting enterprise-scale Fabric or Power BI environments in a global operating model. • Capacity troubleshooting, workload governance, service monitoring and performance tuning. • Microsoft Purview, data lineage, DLP, RBAC and enterprise governance practices. • Lakehouse, Direct Lake, deployment pipelines and release management. Behavioral competencies
• Strong problem-solving mindset with attention to operational detail. • Ability to prioritize incidents and communicate clearly with technical and business stakeholders. • Ownership, accountability and a continuous-improvement orientation. • Willingness and ability to work the mandatory 5:00 PM IST to 2:00 AM IST shift. Success in this role
• Reliable, secure and well-governed platform operations. • Reduced recurring incidents through automation and corrective actions. • Improved capacity visibility, gateway resilience and adherence to CoE standards. Safe enablement of governed Fabric AI and analytics capabilities