Power BI Platform Lead

ATCON GLOBAL; Brussel; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Atcon Global is seeking a Data Analytics - Platform Lead in Belgium to manage and govern enterprise analytics platforms, with a strong focus on Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. The role combines hands-on platform administration, architecture oversight and stakeholder coordination across teams.

You will review changes, ensure security and governance alignment, and drive continuous improvement in platform efficiency, costs and adoption of standardized patterns.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI with platform administration.
• Solid understanding of cloud platform concepts and data services.
• Experience in data architecture and analytics solution design across multiple technologies.
• Experience with architecture governance, solution reviews and applying design patterns and guardrails.
• Operational excellence mindset with platform operations, incident, problem and change management in a regulated industry.
• Experience assessing releases, lifecycle changes and coordinating impact on platforms and users.

Responsibilities

• Manage platform operations: approve access requests and activities across Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake and related services.
• Assess technology changes: monitor releases and coordinate platform changes.
• Maintain platform documentation, procedures and knowledge articles for security and governance.
• Provide architecture oversight: review changes and ensure adherence to principles and standards.
• Review architecture and solution designs, mappings and ASD/PSD documents.
• Optimize cloud consumption and manage capacity, performance and costs.

Skills

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

Cloud architecture

Data architecture

Architecture governance

Platform operations

Tools

Snowflake

DevOps/CI-CD

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