Senior Fabric Architect

Capgemini; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global business transformation partner seeks a solutions architect to join their AI and Analytics team. The role involves designing end-to-end Microsoft Fabric and Power BI solutions for enterprise clients, ensuring governance and compliance. Ideal candidates will have strong expertise in Fabric and experience leading teams through Power BI implementations. The position offers involvement in high-impact projects and opportunities for continuous learning and development.

Benefits

Wellbeing programs

Training and development opportunities

Flexible work environment

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Fabric and Power BI, with hands-on experience in designing and building dashboards.
• Ability to lead teams through full-lifecycle Power BI implementations.
• Experience with managing Fabric and Power BI capacities.

Responsibilities

• Solve complex data challenges for large corporate clients.
• Support clients in creating scalable, user-centric Business Intelligence solutions.
• Establish best practices for Fabric and Power BI governance.

Skills

Fabric and Power BI expertise

Integration skills with Microsoft and non-Microsoft ecosystems

DAX and Power Query proficiency

Data warehousing concepts understanding

Experience interfacing with senior client stakeholders

Tools

Microsoft Office

Power Platform

AWS

Azure

Databricks

Job description

The Job You're Considering

You will be joining the AI and Analytics team within Capgemini's Insights and Data Global Business Unit. We are an extremely talented and passionate team focused on solving customers' business problems using the latest techniques, methods, and technologies. Our rapidly growing team of visualisation specialists, data scientists, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning engineers seeks to ideate and bring to life what's next for our clients.

Your Role

We are seeking individuals with a deep expertise in architecting end-to-end (E2E) Microsoft Fabric and Power BI solutions for enterprise scale deployment at client organisations of varying sizes. The role will require you to work as a solutions architect closely with clients starting or maturing their journey with Fabric and Power BI who seek to develop the relevant guardrails and governance, policies and processes that are able to meet the client's needs and constraints. The role will require you to lead on capturing and understanding the functional and non-functional requirements and design an E2E Fabric and Power BI solution that allow the client to achieve their goals.

The role will require expertise and experience across all interfaces with Fabric / Power BI including but not limited to:

• Security
• Data Pipelines and Data Flows (real-time and batch processing)
• Governance and processes
• Service Support (including onboarding, troubleshooting etc.)
• Data Gateways (on-premises and managed)
• Monitoring, Logging and Alerting (LMA)
• Continuous artefact (reports, apps, pipelines, dataflows etc.) deployment and continuous integration
• Visualisation design best practices
• E2E Automation

What You'll Do:

• Solve complex data challenges for large corporate clients across various sectors, designing effective Power BI and Fabric solutions
• Collaborate with or lead multidisciplinary, agile, and globally distributed teams
• Strengthen internal capabilities by contributing to the AI & Analytics practice, fostering innovation, and mentoring other team members
• Support clients in creating scalable, user-centric Business Intelligence (BI) and self-serve AI solutions
• Support and advise clients on the design and development of dashboards and reports that deliver actionable insights
• Establish best practices for Fabric and Power BI governance, including workspace setup, security models, and performance optimisation
• Advise and design solution integrations with Fabric / Power BI and other vendor technologies / services (e.g. SAP, AWS, ITNow, etc.)
• Support or lead on bid responses and client engagement activities to win new Fabric / Power BI engagements

Your Skills and Experience

• Strong expertise in Fabric and Power BI, including hands‑on experience designing and building dashboards, reports, and data models and / or of workflows of the different fabric personas (data engineer, data scientist, business analyst etc.)
• Strong expertise integrating Fabric / Power BI with the Microsoft Office, Power Platform, Azure and other non‑Microsoft ecosystems (AWS, SAP, GCP, On‑Premises etc.)
• Experience implementing governance and processes to manage and mitigate the proliferation of Fabric and Power BI usage at enterprise scale
• Knowledge of implementing Role Based Access Controls (RBAC) and integration with EntraID to manage access both within and outside of an organisation to Fabric
• Knowledge of security models and RBAC for secure Fabric and Power BI solutions (workspace / Power BI App access, row‑level security etc.)
• Knowledge of the best practices for a variety of use cases connecting to various backend solutions across various vendors and data sources
• Experience of working with and managing Fabric and Power BI capacities including the licencing implications, cost management and capacity consumption and planning
• Knowledge of or experience implementing Fabric / Power BI orientated operating models
• Proficiency in DAX and Power Query
• Proficiency with Fabric (including Power BI) service administration
• Ability to lead teams through multiple full‑lifecycle Power BI implementations,
• A strong understanding of data warehousing concepts, data modelling, and data visualisation best practices
• Experience integrating Power BI with data lakes (including OneLake), Azure Synapse, and other cloud platforms
• Experience using and designing for the use of Microsoft Spark and / or Databricks as part of a Fabric deployment
• Knowledge of the different data architecture and modelling methodologies and their pros and cons
• Experience in interfacing with senior client stakeholders, translating business needs into data solutions
• Have a passion and enthusiasm for data‑driven insights and storytelling concepts
• Commercial management experience is advantageous

Your Security Clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement you are willing to and are eligible to apply for Security Check (SC) clearance.

To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.
Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.
Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

What does 'Get The Future You Want' mean for you?

Your wellbeing
You'd be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2023. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

Shape your path
You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini's 'learning for life' mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients' businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free‑thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what's possible. It's why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world's leading businesses, and it's how you'll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you'll build the skills you want. You'll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.