Senior BI Architect — Power BI & Data Platform Lead

Summit Utilities, Inc.; Fayetteville (AR); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision benefits

Flexible work options

Job summary

Summit Utilities, Inc. in the United States seeks a Senior BI Architect to lead the design, governance, and evolution of its enterprise analytics architecture, with a focus on Power BI, semantic modeling, and data platforms.

The role partners with Data Engineering to deliver scalable, trusted insights for operational, financial, and executive reporting, while mentoring BI developers and shaping the Fabric-based analytics environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field and 10+ years in BI/analytics/warehousing.
• 6+ years hands-on Power BI development including semantic modeling and DAX.
• 3+ years in lead/architect roles with responsibility for technical standards and architecture decisions.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure data services, or comparable cloud analytics platforms.
• Proven mentoring experience and ability to establish development standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, governance, and optimization of Summit's enterprise analytical architecture, including Power BI semantic models, datasets, and reporting standards.
• Establish and maintain best practices for data modeling, security, performance, deployment, and lifecycle management across the BI environment.
• Architect scalable analytics solutions for 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 BI solutions.
• Design and optimize dataflows, semantic models, DAX measures, and refresh processes for performance and reliability.
• Define and maintain role-based security across reporting environments.
• Monitor and optimize Microsoft Fabric platform usage, capacity, and BI ecosystem performance.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and code review for BI developers while promoting 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

Power BI

DAX

SQL

Data modeling

Data governance

Leadership

Mentoring

Microsoft Fabric

Education

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

Equivalent professional experience may be considered

Tools

Power BI

SQL Server / Azure SQL

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Data Services

Job description

Summit Utilities, Inc. in the United States seeks a Senior BI Architect to lead the design, governance, and evolution of its enterprise analytics architecture, with a focus on Power BI, semantic modeling, and data platforms.

The role partners with Data Engineering to deliver scalable, trusted insights for operational, financial, and executive reporting, while mentoring BI developers and shaping the Fabric-based analytics environment.