PowerBI Platform Engineer

GUHATEK CONSULTING SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED; Tennessee; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

GUHATEK CONSULTING SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED is seeking a Power BI Platform Engineer to own the architecture, governance, and automation of the enterprise Power BI and Fabric ecosystem. You’ll manage workspace design, capacity, data refresh optimization, and CI/CD deployments, collaborating with BI developers and data platform teams to ensure security, performance, and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities include tenant administration, capacity tuning, gateway management, and implementing standard

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of dedicated experience in enterprise BI administration, platform engineering, or enterprise analytics engineering with an emphasis on Power BI / Microsoft Fabric.
• Deep practical knowledge of Power BI Admin Portal, capacity resource allocation, tenant settings, and Fabric artifacts (Lakehouses, Warehouses, Semantic Models).
• Strong scripting capabilities using PowerShell and Python, plus familiarity with REST APIs.

Responsibilities

• Tenant Administration & Platform Governance: Manage Power BI tenant settings, capacity configurations, licensing allocation, and governance policies.
• Capacity & Performance Optimization: Monitor Fabric/Power BI capacities and resolve bottlenecks with semantic model teams.
• Enterprise Gateway Management: Architect and monitor On-Premises Data Gateway clusters for hybrid connectivity.
• CI/CD & DevOps Automation: Build automated release pipelines using Power BI Deployment Pipelines, Fabric Git integration, and REST APIs.
• Security & Compliance: Implement data protection policies and RLS/OLS audit frameworks.
• Semantic Modeling & Data Architecture Enablement: Guide teams on large-scale semantic models and incremental refresh.
• Platform Operations & Support: Act as escalation point for platform outages and data-refresh issues.

Skills

Power BI administration

Fabric administration

Scripting & automation

CI/CD & DevOps

Security & governance

DAX performance tuning

Tools

PowerShell (MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt)

Python

Power BI REST APIs

Fabric Admin APIs

Azure DevOps

GitHub

XMLA

Job description

About the Role

The Power BI Platform Engineer is responsible for the architecture, administration, scalability, and governance of the enterprise Power BI and Microsoft Fabric ecosystem. Rather than focusing solely on building visual dashboards, this role operates under a platform-engineering mindset—treating BI infrastructure as a managed product. You will oversee workspace design, premium capacity/Fabric capacity management, data refresh optimization, enterprise-scale gateway architectures, and CI/CD deployment pipelines. Working at the intersection of BI developers, enterprise data platform teams, and governance bodies, you ensure high availability, data security, performance standards, and cost-efficient capacity utilization across the entire organization.

Responsibilities

• Tenant Administration & Platform Governance: Manage Power BI tenant settings, capacity configurations, licensing allocation, and organizational governance policies. Implement best practices for workspace lifecycles, access control, and workspace domain hierarchies.
• Capacity & Performance Optimization: Monitor and tune Fabric/Power BI capacities (F-SKUs and P-SKUs) using Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics. Identify memory throttling, CPU spikes, and query timeouts, partnering with semantic model developers to resolve bottlenecks.
• Enterprise Gateway Management: Architect, configure, patch, and monitor high-availability On-Premises Data Gateway clusters to ensure resilient hybrid connectivity to on-prem data warehouses and private network endpoints.
• CI/CD & DevOps Automation: Build and standardize automated release management using Power BI Deployment Pipelines, Fabric Git integration (Azure DevOps / GitHub), and PowerShell/Fabric REST APIs for automated deployments, regression checks, and model backups.
• Security & Compliance: Implement data protection policies including Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels, Row-Level Security (RLS) / Object-Level Security (OLS) audit frameworks, and private endpoint / VNet data connectivity.
• Semantic Layer & Data Architecture Enablement: Guide enterprise teams on best practices for large-scale semantic models (Direct Lake, DirectQuery, composite models, XMLA read/write endpoints, and incremental refresh).
• Platform Operations & Support: Serve as the senior technical escalation point for platform-level outages, gateway failures, data refresh disruptions, and tenant misconfigurations.

Requirements

• Experience: 3–6 years of dedicated experience in enterprise BI administration, platform engineering, or enterprise analytics engineering with an emphasis on Power BI / Microsoft Fabric.
• Power BI & Fabric Administration: Deep practical knowledge of the Power BI Admin Portal, capacity resource allocation, tenant settings, and Fabric artifacts (Lakehouses, Warehouses, Semantic Models).
• Scripting & Automation: Strong scripting capabilities using PowerShell (MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt module) and Python, alongside familiarity with the Power BI REST APIs and Fabric Admin APIs.
• Data Connectivity & Networking: Hands-on experience deploying and load-balancing On-Premises Data Gateways, understanding network routing, service principals, Azure VNets, and private links.
• Semantic Modeling & Optimization: Advanced knowledge of tabular models, DAX query performance tuning, and tools like DAX Studio, Tabular Editor (BIML/TOM), and ALM Toolkit.
• DevOps & Version Control: Experience establishing Git-integrated developer workflows, deployment pipelines, and environment management (Dev/Test/Prod) in Azure DevOps or GitHub.
• Security Standards: Working knowledge of Azure Active Directory (Microsoft Entra ID), conditional access, service principals, RLS/OLS, and enterprise data masking principles.

Nice to Have

• Microsoft Fabric Unified Architecture: Early adoption or production exposure to Fabric core workloads (Synapse Data Engineering, Real-Time Intelligence, OneLake shortcuts).
• Cloud Data…