Fabric & Power BI Platform Lead

NHS Jobs; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs seeks a senior Microsoft Fabric & Power BI Lead to design, deliver and operate a unified analytics platform across clinical, operational, financial and fundraising data. You will own the platform architecture, governance and delivery roadmap.

You will work with data owners, analysts and external partners to replace fragmented reports with reusable data products, ensure information governance and cyber security, and mentor teams in BI best practices.

Qualifications

• DBS check required.
• Experience leading Fabric/Power BI platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design secure, scalable Fabric architecture using OneLake, lakehouse, warehouse, pipeline and notebook patterns.
• Build reliable ingestion, transformation and orchestration across applications, APIs, databases, files and external sources.
• Set SQL, Python or PySpark and ETL/ELT standards, using reusable integration patterns.
• Map authoritative sources and information flows.
• Improve capture at source with validation, reconciliation and data-quality issue resolution.
• Maintain documentation, metadata, lineage, definitions and dependencies.
• Build logging, alerting, recovery and maintainability with ownership, security, licensing and support considerations.
• Develop governed workspaces, apps, semantic models and dashboards across directorates.
• Set dimensional modelling, DAX, calculation and accessibility standards.
• Optimise model, query, refresh and report performance.
• Translate service questions into prioritised requirements.
• Lead discovery, build, testing, release, adoption and benefits review.
• Explain technical constraints and data limitations.
• Use feedback to improve products and retire obsolete outputs.
• Enable self-service analytics and build data literacy.
• Use source control, peer review, deployment pipelines and separate environments.
• Test data, models, security, performance, accessibility and user acceptance.
• Maintain release records, dependencies, rollback plans and change communications.
• Automate platform deployment, validation, monitoring and administration.
• Prioritise technical debt, defects and improvements.
• Embed data protection, confidentiality, governance and cyber security, working with governance teams.
• Implement least-privilege access, security and publication controls.
• Assess privacy and security risks for new data and AI features.
• Support audits and incident investigations, improving controls.
• Monitor Fabric capacity, Power BI performance, refreshes and cost.
• Plan licensing and capacity against demand.
• Resolve incidents and perform root-cause analysis.
• Maintain support routes and escalation procedures.
• Manage vulnerabilities and dependencies with ICT and security teams.
• Protect confidential information and separate experimentation from production.
• Ensure solutions are validated and explainable and monitor bias and accuracy.
• Mentor data teams and manage suppliers and partners.

Skills

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

Data governance

SQL

Python

ETL/ELT

Stakeholder mgmt

Security

Job description

NHS Jobs seeks a senior Microsoft Fabric & Power BI Lead to design, deliver and operate a unified analytics platform across clinical, operational, financial and fundraising data. You will own the platform architecture, governance and delivery roadmap.

You will work with data owners, analysts and external partners to replace fragmented reports with reusable data products, ensure information governance and cyber security, and mentor teams in BI best practices.