Data Analyst: Power BI & Fabric Analytics Lead

QinetiQ; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched contribution pension scheme

Generous holiday allowance

Private Medical Insurance

Job summary

QinetiQ in Farnborough is seeking a Data Analyst to help deploy Microsoft Fabric and Power BI across our analytics platform. You will design dashboards, build semantic models, and shape data pipelines while mentoring junior analysts.

The role requires strong SQL, DAX, data modelling and stakeholder communication, with delivery across the full data lifecycle. This is a hands-on position on site at Farnborough, offering a competitive salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking abilities with the ability to interpret complex data and deliver actionable insights.
• Extensive recent experience with Power BI including report design, DAX and data modelling.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric or related Azure data services including Synapse and Data Factory.
• Proficiency in SQL, data transformation techniques and designing dimensional data models.
• Strong understanding of data warehousing, lakehouse concepts, version control and deployment practices.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to balance hands-on delivery, guidance and leadership responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing and maintaining Power BI dashboards and reports aligned with business requirements
• Building and optimising semantic models using best practices including star schema and DAX optimisation
• Developing and managing data pipelines within Microsoft Fabric using Dataflows Gen2, Lakehouse and Warehouse
• Translating stakeholder requirements into scalable data solutions while communicating insights to technical and non-technical audiences
• Ensuring data accuracy, integrity and performance while contributing to Fabric platform architecture, governance and reusable standards
• Providing expert advice, coaching and mentoring while identifying opportunities to improve performance, usability, scalability and adoption of best practices

Skills

Problem solving

Critical thinking

Leadership responsibilities

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Education

University degree or equivalent

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Synapse

Data Factory

SQL

Job description

QinetiQ in Farnborough is seeking a Data Analyst to help deploy Microsoft Fabric and Power BI across our analytics platform. You will design dashboards, build semantic models, and shape data pipelines while mentoring junior analysts.

The role requires strong SQL, DAX, data modelling and stakeholder communication, with delivery across the full data lifecycle. This is a hands-on position on site at Farnborough, offering a competitive salary and benefits.