Microsoft Fabric & Power BI Lead

The Methodist Church in Britain; Birmingham; Sur place; GBP 65 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive salary

Generous holiday allowance

Contribution pension scheme

Employee benefits

Investment in ongoing professional dev

Résumé du poste

Birmingham Hospice is seeking a Lead to run its Microsoft Fabric and Power BI platform within the Digital, Data & Technology department. The role combines hands-on technical work with stakeholder engagement, coaching colleagues and managing suppliers.

You will design, build and govern data products, ensure standards, and drive adoption while reporting to the Head of Technology & Data. DBS clearance is required and degree or equivalent experience.

Qualifications

• Degree-level education or equivalent substantial professional experience.
• Continued professional development in Fabric, Power BI, data governance and cloud.
• Experience leading production BI and cloud data platforms.

Responsabilités

• Lead the design, delivery and operation of the Fabric and Power BI platform.
• Build secure ingestion, transformation and orchestration across systems.
• Develop governed workspaces and reusable semantic models.
• Set standards in SQL, Python/PySpark, ETL/ELT, DAX and data modelling.
• Mentor colleagues and manage supplier relationships for value.

Connaissances

Data leadership

Power BI

Fabric

SQL

Python

ETL/ELT

Stakeholder engagement

Formation

Degree-level education

Outils

Azure data services

Power Platform

Git

OneLake

Description du poste

Birmingham Hospice's Digital, Data & Technology department is recruiting a lead to run its Microsoft Fabric and Power BI platform, reporting to the Head of Technology & Data. The post covers architecture, engineering, reporting standards and day-to-day support, with the aim of replacing fragmented datasets and manual reports with governed, reusable data products. It combines hands‑on technical work with stakeholder engagement, coaching colleagues and managing specialist suppliers. Enhanced DBS clearance applies, and a degree or equivalent substantial professional experience is required.

What the job involves

• Lead the design, delivery and operation of the Fabric and Power BI platform, including its architecture and roadmap
• Build secure ingestion, transformation and orchestration across applications, APIs, databases and files
• Develop governed workspaces, reusable semantic models and dashboards with consistent measures across directorates
• Set SQL, Python or PySpark, ETL/ELT, DAX, modelling, visual design and accessibility standards
• Work with data owners to improve data capture at source, validation, reconciliation and data-quality resolution
• Translate service questions and statutory needs into prioritised requirements and lead delivery through to adoption
• Implement least-privilege access, row-level security and workspace governance with information governance and cyber-security teams
• Run source control, peer review, testing and deployment pipelines across separate development, test and production environments
• Monitor capacity, refreshes, gateways, performance and cost, and resolve incidents through root-cause analysis
• Advise on platform options, investment needs, business cases, licensing and budget planning
• Mentor colleagues, build data literacy and enable controlled self-service analytics
• Manage specialist suppliers and Microsoft partners for technical quality, value for money and knowledge transfer

Qualifications

• Degree-level education or equivalent substantial professional experience in data, BI, software engineering, IT or a related discipline
• Continuing professional development in Fabric, Power BI, data engineering, analytics, cloud or data governance

Experience

• Substantial experience designing, delivering and supporting production BI and cloud data platforms, with hands‑on technical leadership
• Deep Power BI experience across workspaces, apps, semantic models, DAX, refresh, gateways, security and deployment
• Experience integrating business systems with validation, reconciliation, monitoring and data-quality controls
• Experience managing capacity, refreshes, gateways, licensing and cost, and resolving incidents through root-cause analysis
• Experience translating stakeholder needs into governed data products, with sound analytical and operational judgement

Skills & knowledge

• Strong practical knowledge of Fabric, including OneLake, lakehouses, warehouses, pipelines, notebooks and deployment patterns
• Strong SQL and data modelling, including dimensional models, semantic layers and performance‑aware design
• Working knowledge of Python and/or PySpark, APIs, ETL/ELT and orchestration
• Experience of source control, peer review, testing, deployment pipelines, release management and technical documentation
• Strong understanding of governance, lineage, metadata, privacy and access controls, meeting information-governance, cyber-security and clinical‑safety requirements

Checks & eligibility

• Enhanced DBS check

Other

• Clear communication with technical and non‑technical audiences, and strong relationships when balancing delivery, incidents and technical debt
• Experience coaching colleagues, developing team capability and managing specialist suppliers
• Integrity, discretion and ethical judgement with sensitive information, and commitment to the hospice's values

Nice to have

• Relevant Microsoft certification, or qualifications in data management, information governance, project delivery, service management or leadership
• Experience in a hospice, charity, health, social care or other regulated setting
• Knowledge of clinical systems, healthcare standards, fundraising, retail or charity data
• Experience of Azure data services, Microsoft Purview, Power Platform or Microsoft 365, including migrating legacy reporting or data workloads
• Experience supporting forecasting, statistical analysis, machine learning or responsible AI use cases
• Experience developing governed self‑service analytics, data literacy or a reporting centre of excellence

What’s offered

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday allowance
• Contribution pension scheme
• Employee benefits
• Investment in ongoing professional development