Hybrid: Senior BI Architect & Data Platform Lead

Summit Utilities, Inc.; Branson (MO); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision benefits

Competitive pay

Job summary

Summit Utilities, Inc. is seeking a Senior BI Architect to lead the design, governance, and evolution of Summit Utilities' enterprise analytics architecture.

This role serves as the technical authority for Power BI, semantic modeling, data architecture, and BI development standards. Working closely with Data Engineering and business stakeholders, the Senior BI Architect will ensure enterprise data is translated into scalable, trusted, and high-performing analytics solutions that support

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field; equivalent professional experience may be considered.
• 10+ years of experience in Business Intelligence, analytics engineering, enterprise reporting, or data warehousing.
• 6+ years of hands‑on Power BI development experience, including semantic modeling, dataset design, and advanced DAX.
• 3+ years serving in a lead, principal, or architect‑level role with responsibility for technical standards and architecture decisions.
• Demonstrated experience designing and supporting enterprise‑scale analytics solutions.
• Experience working within Microsoft Fabric, Azure data services, or comparable cloud analytics platforms.
• Proven experience mentoring technical teams and establishing development standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, governance, and optimization of Summit's enterprise analytical architecture, including Power BI semantic models, certified datasets, and reporting standards.
• Establish and maintain best practices for data modeling, security, performance tuning, deployment, and lifecycle management across the BI environment.
• Architect scalable analytics solutions that support operational, financial, and executive reporting needs.
• Partner with Data Engineering to define requirements for curated data models and ensure alignment between enterprise data architecture and business intelligence solutions.
• Design and optimize dataflows, semantic models, DAX measures, and refresh processes to improve performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Define and maintain role-based security and access controls across reporting environments.
• Monitor and optimize Microsoft Fabric platform usage, capacity, and overall BI ecosystem performance.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and code review for BI developers while promoting development standards and best practices.
• Develop and maintain architecture documentation, data definitions, and governance standards.
• Advise leadership on BI strategy, platform capabilities, and future-state architecture decisions.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder alignment

Mentoring

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or related field

Tools

Power BI Desktop

Power BI Service

DAX

Power Query (M)

SQL

Microsoft Fabric

Azure data services

Job description

Summit Utilities, Inc. is seeking a Senior BI Architect to lead the design, governance, and evolution of Summit Utilities' enterprise analytics architecture.

This role serves as the technical authority for Power BI, semantic modeling, data architecture, and BI development standards. Working closely with Data Engineering and business stakeholders, the Senior BI Architect will ensure enterprise data is translated into scalable, trusted, and high-performing analytics solutions that support