Lead BI Engineer

Acora Limited; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 90.000 - 140.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Acora Limited is seeking a Lead BI Engineer to drive cross-project BI platform architecture, governance, and engineering oversight. The role ensures scalable, secure, cost-efficient and reliable BI solutions across multiple teams and engagements.

You will shape delivery with BI developers, analysts and data engineers, mentor engineers, and establish reusable patterns for successful BI platforms in an AI-enabled environment.

Formación

• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale BI platforms.
• Strong governance and security controls experience.
• IaC and CI/CD practices for BI environments.

Responsabilidades

• Lead complex BI platform architecture and capacity strategy.
• Own cross-project platform governance and deployment standards.
• Influence decisions across BI, data engineering and architecture teams.
• Provide senior platform oversight and escalate complex issues.
• Define reusable platform engineering patterns (IaC, pipelines, monitoring).
• Identify cross-workstream risks and cost inefficiencies.
• Shape delivery with BI developers, analysts and engineers.
• Mentor BI engineers to raise platform quality.

Conocimientos

BI platform design

Capacity planning

Security & governance

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD for BI

Cross-team leadership

Stakeholder influence

Herramientas

Power BI

Databricks

Synapse

Fabric

Descripción del empleo

About Us Acora are a progressive full-stack full-service business technology services partner, built for the AI era. Combining the capabilities of a Managed Service Provider (MSP), Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP), IT Consulting, Professional Services and Development company, Acora helps customers achieve breakthrough results - often quicker and at lower risk than they thought possible.

We believe in a better working world, where our customers are confident to fully embrace the AI opportunity and generate economic impact.

Our Values

• Be the best you can be
• We do what we say
• Together we win

Description

Lead BI Engineer responsible for cross-project platform architecture, governance and technical oversight. Operates as a senior technical authority across BI platform engineering, ensuring scalability, security, cost-efficiency and reliability. Drives consistency, reusable patterns and best-practice engineering across multiple teams and engagements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design of complex BI platform architecture, including capacity strategy, environment topology, security model and CI/CD approach
• Own cross-project platform governance, ensuring consistency of security, capacity and deployment standards across teams
• Influence platform and infrastructure decisions across BI, Data Engineering and Architecture teams
• Operate across multiple projects, providing senior platform oversight and acting as an escalation point for complex capacity, security or reliability issues
• Define reusable platform engineering patterns (infrastructure-as-code, deployment pipelines, monitoring frameworks)
• Identify and resolve cross-workstream platform risks, dependencies and cost inefficiencies
• Shape delivery approaches in partnership with BI Developers, BI Analysts, Data Engineers and Architects
• Support stakeholder alignment across business and technical teams on platform capability, capacity and security decisions
• Mentor and guide BI Engineers across teams, improving platform engineering quality and capability

Key Skills

• Deep expertise designing and operating large-scale BI/analytics platforms (Fabric, Power BI, Databricks, Synapse)
• Strong knowledge of capacity planning, cost optimisation and scaling strategies
• Expert understanding of platform security, governance and compliance controls
• Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices for BI environments
• Ability to diagnose and resolve complex platform engineering problems across systems and teams
• Strong communication and stakeholder-influence skills, able to guide senior decision-makers
• Leadership through influence, driving consistency and best practice across multiple teams

Personal Specification

• Confident communicator able to represent Acora's platform standards in client environments
• Operates effectively across multiple projects and ambiguous environments
• Strong ownership mindset with high accountability
• Structured problem-solver with commercial awareness
• Demonstrates leadership through expertise rather than formal authority