Power BI Architect

Kumaran Systems; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Kumaran Systems seeks an experienced Power BI Architect to lead modernization and migration of legacy reporting platforms to Microsoft Power BI.

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Power BI, DAX, semantic modeling, and automation, with a track record migrating from SAP BO, Cognos, MicroStrategy, Tableau, and other platforms. Strong leadership and architectural skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering with enterprise reporting.
• Strong hands-on Power BI across Desktop, Service, and Report Server.
• Experience migrating from legacy BI platforms (e.g., SAP BusinessObjects, IBM Cognos, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Qlik, SSRS, Oracle BI/OBIEE).

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and strategy for migrating legacy BI to Power BI.
• Analyze legacy reports, dashboards, datasets, queries, calculations, filters, prompts, security models, and dependencies.
• Define migration patterns and standards for Power BI reports.
• Design scalable semantic models/datasets using star-schema and dimensional modelling.
• Establish enterprise standards for Power BI report development, modeling, visualization, naming conventions, performance, and deployment.
• Design and implement frameworks to automate Power BI report creation and migration where feasible.
• Evaluate and leverage Power BI REST APIs, Fabric APIs, XMLA endpoints, TOM, Tabular Editor, PowerShell, Python and/or .NET for automation.
• Define automated report comparison and validation frameworks to ensure migrated reports match legacy results.
• Provide technical leadership, architecture guidance, and mentoring to Power BI developers.

Skills

Power BI

DAX

Power Query

Data modeling

Star schema

Row-Level Security

DirectQuery

Incremental refresh

REST APIs

Automation

Tools

Tabular Editor

PowerShell

Python

.NET

XMLA

TOM

Job description

Job Description:

About Us

Kumaran Systems: Engineering Future-Ready Transformations Since 1992, Kumaran Systems has been helping enterprises bridge the past and the future, reimagining legacy systems and embracing AI-led possibilities. With over 34 years of delivery excellence, we specialise in re-engineering core applications, driving cloud transformation, and building automation-first, GenAI-enabled ecosystems across the Banking and Financial Services, Insurance, Telecom, and Automotive sectors. We help organisations not just upgrade their systems but reimagine what’s possible.

Why Kumaran?

We blend engineering discipline with AI innovation, helping clients modernise with confidence, automate with clarity, and scale with purpose. Our global delivery model ensures agility, responsiveness, and seamless collaboration, with clients always at the heart of every engagement. At Kumaran, we don’t just solve problems, we engineer future-ready transformations.

Power BI Architect – Reports Migration Expert

We are looking for a highly experienced Power BI Architect to lead the modernization and migration of legacy reporting platforms to Microsoft Power BI .

The ideal candidate should have deep expertise in Power BI , Power BI Service, DAX, Power Query, semantic modeling, SQL, data visualization, and BI architecture, combined with strong experience in automating repetitive report-development and migration activities

• Lead the architecture and technical strategy for migrating legacy BI /reporting platforms to Power BI .
• Analyse existing legacy reports, dashboards, datasets, queries, calculations, filters, prompts, security models, and dependencies.
• Define migration patterns and standards for converting legacy reports into Power BI reports.
• Design scalable Power BI semantic models/datasets using appropriate star-schema and dimensional modeling principles.
• Establish enterprise standards for Power BI report development, modeling, visualization, naming conventions, performance, and deployment.
• Design and implement frameworks to automate Power BI report creation and migration wherever technically feasible.
• Evaluate and leverage Power BI REST APIs, Power BI /Fabric APIs, XMLA endpoints, Tabular Object Model (TOM), Tabular Editor, Power Shell, Python and/or .NET for automation.
• Define automated report comparison and validation frameworks to ensure migrated reports produce results equivalent to legacy reports.
• Provide technical leadership, architecture guidance, and mentoring to Power BI developers.

Required Technical Skills

• 10+ years of experience in Data engineering domain & enterprise reports building with at least 2 projects experience in migration from legacy reporting technologies to Power BI .
• The candidate should have very strong hands-on Power BI expertise, including Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, Power BI Report Server, Power BI semantic models/datasets, DAX – advanced/expert level, Power Query / M, Data modelling, Star schema / dimensional modelling, Composite models, Import and DirectQuery, Incremental refresh, Aggregations, Calculation groups, Row-Level Security (RLS), Object-Level Security (OLS), Drill-through, Bookmarks, Dynamic measures, Field parameters, Dynamic titles and visualization, Custom visuals, Power BI performance optimization, Deployment pipelines, Workspaces and governance
• Experience migrating reports from one or more legacy platforms is highly desirable, for example SAP BusinessObjects, IBM Cognos, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Qlik, SSRS, Crystal Reports, Oracle BI / OBIEE