About the role
We are looking for a Senior Application Support Engineer specializing in Microsoft Power BI Administration and Microsoft Fabric to manage, optimize, and support enterprise Business Intelligence platforms. This role is focused primarily on Power BI platform administration, backend environment management, optimization, migration, and application support, rather than Power BI report development alone. The successful candidate will work independently, collaborate with cross-functional technology teams, troubleshoot complex platform issues, and contribute to platform upgrades, migrations, performance tuning, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Key responsibilities
- Administer and optimize the Microsoft Power BI platform and Microsoft Fabric environment.
- Manage Power BI workspaces, gateways, licenses, parameters, reports, dashboards, and platform configurations.
- Monitor platform performance, capacity utilization, and overall environment health.
- Troubleshoot Power BI service disruptions, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
- Coordinate with support and technology teams to resolve critical incidents and platform issues.
- Support application deployments and assess production readiness of Power BI solutions.
- Manage code migration and deployment across Development, Test, Staging, and Production environments.
- Utilize automation and deployment tools such as Python, Terraform, and Ansible.
- Lead or support Power BI platform upgrades, cloud migrations, performance tuning, and other technical initiatives.
- Participate in scheduled on-call rotations and provide support for critical issues.
About you
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience in Power BI Administration.
- Strong experience managing and optimizing the Power BI platform.
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric administration.
- Strong knowledge of Power BI workspace management, gateways, licensing, parameters, dashboards, and platform configuration.
- Experience with code migration and automated deployment across environments.
- Knowledge of automation/deployment tools such as Python, Ansible, and/or Terraform.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, including root cause analysis.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate with both technical teams and senior stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently and lead technical initiatives or critical incident resolution.