Power BI Lead & Enterprise Analytics Architect

GBM; Dubai; On-site; AED 480,000 - 780,000; Full time

Job summary

GBM seeks 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, data modelling and visualisation with mentoring and close engagement with business and technology stakeholders to deliver secure, high-performing analytics.

You will lead the design of semantic models, enforce standards, and oversee deployments while collaborating with data engineering

Qualifications

• 7-8 years of experience in BI, data analytics or enterprise reporting.
• 4-5+ years hands-on Power BI experience.
• Advanced expertise in Power BI, DAX, Power Query, dashboard development and performance tuning.
• Strong knowledge of star and snowflake schemas, dimensional modeling, data warehousing and semantic model design.
• Hands-on SQL with relational databases; proficiency in Azure data ecosystem (Synapse, Data Lake, Databricks, Fabric).
• Proven experience governing enterprise BI environments and leading BI projects or teams.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, including interaction with senior/CXO-level stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect enterprise-grade BI solutions and semantic models.
• Define and enforce development standards for dimensional modelling, DAX, Power Query and report design.
• Develop interactive dashboards, scorecards and reports aligned with KPIs and strategic objectives.
• Implement governance, workspace management, CI/CD, version control, RLS and OLS.
• Integrate reporting with Azure Synapse, Data Lake, Databricks and other enterprise apps with data engineering teams.
• Optimize large datasets, calculations, refresh processes and capacity for scalability.
• Lead and mentor BI developers and analysts through reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into measurable analytics outcomes and drive self-service BI adoption.
• Support solution demonstrations, estimations, proposals, and client workshops leveraging Fabric and AI capabilities.

Skills

Power BI

DAX

Power Query

SQL

Data Modeling

Stakeholder Management

Leadership

Data Warehousing

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Synapse

Databricks

Data Lake

SQL Server

Job description

GBM seeks 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, data modelling and visualisation with mentoring and close engagement with business and technology stakeholders to deliver secure, high-performing analytics.

You will lead the design of semantic models, enforce standards, and oversee deployments while collaborating with data engineering