Posted 16 days ago
Description
Microsoft Fabric & Power BI Solutions Architect
Hybrid, Teesside or Manchester
Company & role
A well established Microsoft Solutions Partner is standing up a brand new Data & Analytics capability and needs an architect minded consultant to help build it from the ground up. They already have a strong Microsoft footprint, a people first culture, and serious investment behind this area as a long term growth bet.
Why This Role Stands Out
- Chance to be the technical anchor of a new capability, setting the standards, patterns and ways of working across Fabric, Power BI and the wider data estate
- True mix of architecture, design, hands on delivery, consultancy and pre sales, rather than being pushed towards a single track
- Structured runway into a senior architect and pre sales remit as the capability scales
- Broad exposure across Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Power Platform, Copilot and AI Builder, with room to shape where the practice goes next
- Fully funded training and certifications, with a business that invests in people properly rather than only hiring the finished article
- Customer facing work, internal innovation and internal enablement all in one seat, so the work stays varied
Key Responsibilities
- Architect, design and deliver Microsoft Data & Analytics solutions for customers, with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI at the core
- Own solution design across the Fabric stack including OneLake, Data Factory, Synapse Data Engineering and Warehouse workloads, Real Time Intelligence and semantic models
- Lead customer discovery, workshops and design sessions, translating business problems into practical, well architected solutions
- Stay hands on in the build, setting patterns and reference architectures that the wider team can deliver against
- Support pre sales activity including scoping, solutioning, demos, proposals and effort estimation
- Extend solutions into the wider Power Platform where it adds value, using Power Apps, Power Automate and Dataverse alongside the data layer
- Build internal innovation assets and accelerators that showcase what is possible across Fabric, Power BI, Copilot and AI Builder
- Help cross train existing engineers and developers into Fabric and the modern Microsoft data stack, raising capability across the team
- Set best practice around governance, security, licensing, workspace and capacity strategy, and solution lifecycle management
- Track the Microsoft roadmap across Fabric, Power BI, Power Platform, Copilot and AI, and feed that thinking back into the business
Ideal Experience
- Hands on background designing and delivering Microsoft data and analytics solutions end to end, with strong Power BI capability across modelling, DAX and report design
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, or a solid background across the legacy stack (Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, Databricks) with a clear move into Fabric
- Experience owning solution design and architecture decisions on customer engagements, not just delivery tickets
- Exposure to Power Platform, ideally Power Apps, Power Automate and Dataverse, with an appetite to broaden further
- Comfortable in front of customers, running workshops, shaping requirements and presenting to technical and non technical audiences
- Some pre sales or consulting experience, or a clear appetite to grow into a fuller pre sales and architecture remit
- Good understanding of data governance, security and best practice within Microsoft environments, including Purview awareness
- Awareness of Copilot, Copilot in Fabric and AI Builder, with a genuine interest in pushing AI led analytics further
- Wider Microsoft stack awareness across Azure data services and Microsoft 365
- Genuine passion for the Microsoft data ecosystem
Desirable Certifications
- DP 600 Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
- DP 700 Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer Associate
- PL 300 Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Associate
- PL 200 Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate
- PL 600 Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect Expert
- MS 4006 Copilot for Microsoft 365 specialty content
