Data Platform Lead (Microsoft Fabric & Power BI)

Atcon Global; Brussel Hoofdstad; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Atcon Global is seeking a Data Analytics - Platform Lead to support enterprise analytics platforms with a focus on Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. You will oversee platform operations, governance and architecture while coordinating with delivery and business teams to ensure secure, reliable and efficient analytics services.

Ideal candidates will have hands-on platform administration experience, strong data architecture skills and a track record of applying architecture standards and guardrails in

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI with platform administration experience.
• Solid understanding of cloud platform concepts and data platform services.
• Experience in data architecture, analytics solution design and architecture governance.
• Operational excellence mindset with platform operations, incident, problem and change management.
• Ability to coordinate with technical teams and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage platform operations: review access requests and service activities across Fabric, Snowflake and analytics services.
• Assess technology changes: monitor releases and coordinate platform changes with teams.
• Maintain documentation and knowledge: keep platform docs, FAQs and procedures up to date.
• Provide architecture oversight: review changes and ensure adherence to standards and reference designs.
• Review technical deliverables: assess architecture designs and mapping specifications.
• Optimize cloud consumption: manage capacity, performance and costs per governance standards.
• Coordinate stakeholders: act as governance contact for platform teams and business stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement: identify risks, debt and compliance gaps; promote automation.

Skills

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

Platform administration

Architecture governance

Data architecture

Stakeholder management

Cloud concepts

Incident & change management

DevOps awareness

CI/CD familiarity

Tools

Snowflake

CI/CD tools

Job description

We are looking for an Data Analytics - Platform Lead to support the operations, governance and architectural integrity of our enterprise analytics platforms, with a primary focus on Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. Experience with Snowflake is an advantage.

This role combines hands-on platform administration, architecture oversight and stakeholder coordination. You'll help ensure our analytics platforms remain secure, reliable, efficient and aligned with enterprise standards.

Responsibilities

• Manage platform operations: Review and approve daily access requests, service requests and platform activities across Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake and related analytics services.
• Assess technology changes: Monitor upcoming releases, evaluate their impact on existing analytics solutions and coordinate communications and necessary platform changes.
• Maintain documentation and knowledge: Keep platform documentation, FAQs, procedures and service desk knowledge articles accurate, current and aligned with security, access management and governance requirements.
• Provide architecture oversight: Review and challenge change requests, represent the platform in Architecture Review Boards and ensure delivery teams follow approved architecture principles, reference designs and platform standards.
• Review technical deliverables: Assess and approve architecture and solution designs, including Asds, Psds and source-to-target mapping specifications.
• Optimize cloud consumption: Manage capacity, workload prioritization, performance and costs in line with platform governance standards.
• Coordinate stakeholders: Serve as the governance contact and escalation point for platform teams, architects, delivery and support teams, and business stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement: Identify risks, deviations, technical debt and compliance gaps; coordinate corrective actions; and promote reuse, standardization, automation and adoption of enterprise analytics capabilities.

Requirements

• Strong expertise in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, including platform administration.
• A solid understanding of cloud platform concepts, integration patterns and data platform services.
• Experience in data architecture and analytics solution design across multiple technologies.
• Experience with architecture governance, solution reviews and the application of architecture standards, design patterns and technology guardrails.
• An operational excellence mindset, with experience in platform operations and incident, problem and change management within a regulated industry.
• Experience assessing technology releases, managing lifecycle changes and coordinating their impact on platforms and users.
• The ability to work effectively across technical teams and business stakeholders.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of Snowflake and its administration
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD and release management
• Experience improving platform governance, operational processes and user experience through standardization and automation