Lead Power BI Developer

NES Fircroft; Manila; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

NES Fircroft in Manila, Philippines seeks a Lead Power BI Developer to guide Power BI and Microsoft Fabric development end-to-end. You will lead technical design, governance and quality across complex dashboards, data models and analytics solutions, while coaching two Power BI Developers and coordinating with IT and analytics teams.

You will drive standardisation, performance optimisation and secure release practices in a hands-on leadership role, shaping the analytics capability across the

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience building enterprise Power BI solutions with advanced DAX and data modelling.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Fabric including Lakehouse, Data Factory and Gen2 dataflows.
• Experience in governance, security, deployment pipelines and row-level security.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical SME for Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, guiding design, modelling and best practices.
• Define and maintain technical standards, reusable approaches and quality controls for the team.
• Lead design decisions while remaining hands-on with dashboards, data models and analytics solutions.
• Mentor and line-manage two Power BI Developers, with performance support and career planning.
• Collaborate with IT and Analytics Engineering to align with platform standards.

Skills

Power BI

DAX

Data modelling

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Governance & security

SQL

Performance tuning

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

OneLake

Lakehouse

Data Factory

Dataflows Gen2

Azure data services

Python

PySpark

Job description

Lead Power BI Developer

Join NES Fircroft in a new technical leadership role based in Manila, Philippines. You’ll lead our Power BI and Microsoft Fabric development capability, combining hands-on development with technical leadership, coaching and quality assurance to deliver scalable, secure and high-performing analytics solutions.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Technical Leadership: Act as the technical SME for Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, providing guidance across solution design, data modelling, DAX, Power Query, semantic models, performance and development best practice.
• Development Standards: Define and maintain technical standards, reusable approaches, documentation and quality controls across the Power BI development team.
• Hands-On Development: Lead technical design decisions while remaining hands-on with complex or strategically important dashboards, reports, data models and analytics solutions.
• Quality & Performance: Conduct technical reviews, quality assurance and performance optimisation across solutions developed by the wider team.
• Microsoft Fabric: Provide technical leadership across OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory, Dataflows Gen2, notebooks, semantic models and Direct Lake.
• Data Architecture: Lead governed data ingestion and transformation processes, applying bronze, silver and gold data-layer principles where appropriate.
• Platform Performance: Monitor Power BI and Fabric capacity, refreshes, pipelines, workspaces and solution performance, acting as an escalation point for complex issues.
• Deployment & Governance: Support controlled deployment and release practices, including deployment pipelines, version control, Git integration, security, row-level security and lineage.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with IT and Analytics Engineering to ensure solutions align with wider platform and data architecture standards.
• People Leadership: Provide day-to-day leadership and line management for two Power BI Developers, including work allocation, one-to-ones, performance support and development planning.
• Coaching & Development: Mentor developers, encourage knowledge sharing and identify opportunities to strengthen technical capability across the team.
• Team Growth: Support the recruitment, onboarding and integration of future development resources where required.

Why NES Fircroft

• Technical Ownership: Take a leading role in shaping the standards, quality and direction of Power BI and Microsoft Fabric development.
• Leadership Opportunity: Combine hands-on technical delivery with direct leadership, coaching and development of two Power BI Developers.
• Enterprise Exposure: Work collaboratively across Analytics and IT on reporting and analytics solutions aligned with enterprise platform and data architecture standards.

What We’re Looking For

• Power BI Expertise: Significant hands-on experience developing enterprise Power BI solutions, with advanced capability in DAX, Power Query, semantic modelling and data visualisation.
• Microsoft Fabric: Strong practical knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, including Lakehouse or Warehouse, Data Factory, Dataflows Gen2, OneLake and semantic models.
• SQL & Data Modelling: Strong SQL capability alongside knowledge of relational and dimensional modelling, ETL/ELT, transformation and data quality principles.
• Optimisation: Experience optimising models, DAX, refresh processes, pipelines and report performance and diagnosing complex technical issues.
• Governance & Security: Understanding of Power BI and Fabric security, workspace management, deployment pipelines, governance and controlled release practices.
• Technical Leadership: Experience establishing technical standards, reviewing developers’ work and acting as a technical escalation point.
• People Leadership: Demonstrable experience coaching, mentoring or managing developers, with the ability to provide clear feedback and maintain accountability.
• Stakeholder Management: Strong communication skills with the ability to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Leadership Style: Technically credible, collaborative, delivery-focused and comfortable balancing hands-on development, governance and people leadership.
• Desirable Background: Previous experience as a Lead Power BI Developer, Senior BI Developer or equivalent, particularly within recruitment, staffing, MSP or RPO environments.
• Additional Technology: Experience with Bullhorn, SAP Fieldglass, Azure data services, Python, PySpark, notebooks, APIs or advanced automation would be beneficial.
• Microsoft Certification: PL-300 or DP-600 certification and experience working within a governed Microsoft Fabric environment would be advantageous.

Who Are We?

NES Fircroft is the organisation behind this opportunity. This position will form part of our support function, providing technical leadership across Power BI and Microsoft Fabric development while working collaboratively with Analytics and IT teams.

Accessibility & Inclusion

We want every candidate to have the opportunity to engage fully with our recruitment process. If you require an adjustment or additional support when applying or interviewing for this opportunity, please let us know.

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