Advanced Power BI Consultant

Role overview

This role focuses on supporting and operating the Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Fabric platform, ensuring its reliability, performance, security, and governance across the organization. You will be responsible for the day-to-day administration and operational support of the platform, including monitoring, troubleshooting, capacity management, gateway administration, and user access management.

The role also involves supporting Power BI reports, semantic models, and data refresh processes, while identifying and resolving platform, deployment, and performance issues. You will work closely with business users, data engineers, and platform administrators to ensure adherence to governance standards, security best practices, and operational excellence. Additionally, you will contribute to the continuous improvement of the Power BI platform by evaluating new Microsoft Fabric capabilities, developing operational procedures, and promoting governance and best practices across the organization.

Required skills/experience (must-have)

• Hands-on experience developing Power BI reports, dashboards, and semantic models, 4+ years
• Strong experience with DAX, including complex measures, filter context, row context, time intelligence, performance tuning, and calculation optimization, 4+ years
• Strong experience with Power Query and M language, 3+ years
• Solid understanding of data modeling concepts, including dimensional modeling, star schema, fact and dimension tables, 3+ years
• Experience connecting Power BI to various data sources such as SQL Server, Microsoft Fabric, SharePoint, Excel, REST APIs, and cloud storage, 3+ years
• Experience troubleshooting and optimizing Power BI refreshes, semantic model performance, DAX queries, and report visuals, 3+ years
• Experience configuring and supporting the On-premises Data Gateway, 2+ years
• Strong understanding of Power BI governance, including tenant administration, workspaces, gateways, capacities, security, and deployment pipelines, 2+ years
• Ability to troubleshoot Power BI platform, refresh, access, security, and deployment issues

Nice-to-have

• Experience working in the Life Sciences or Pharmaceutical industry
• Understanding of GxP and regulated environments
• Experience with Azure data services such as Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake Storage, or Azure Synapse Analytics
• Experience with CI/CD implementation for Power BI and Microsoft Fabric
• Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate or Power BI Data Analyst Associate certification or Fabric Data Engineer Associate
• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, and Copilot Studio, with the ability to integrate these solutions with Power BI and Microsoft Fabric
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, including Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory Pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, OneLake, Direct Lake, and semantic models.
• Experience using PowerShell, REST APIs, and SQL for administration and automation.

Soft Skills

• Analytical: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify performance bottlenecks and recommend effective solutions.
• Communication: Excellent English communication skills, with the ability to gather business requirements and collaborate effectively with technical teams and international stakeholders.
• Collaboration: Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including business users, data engineers, architects, and platform administrators.
• Continuous Learning: Passion for staying up to date with new Microsoft Fabric and Power BI features and applying best practices.

Work environment

• Hybrid set-up (once a week onsite, and as required)
• Work with global and local teams
• Work hours can be between 11:00 AM to 12:00 MN (Manila time)
• Rotational work assignment on Philippine holidays
• Occasional and scheduled weekend work for platform maintenance and production deployments

Education and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 4 to 6+ years of hands-on experience developing and supporting Microsoft Power BI solutions across both project delivery and production support environments.
• Experience working with Microsoft Fabric in enterprise environments is highly preferred.

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WHO WE ARE

NNIT is a fast-growing IT company with ambitious goals and 2,400 employees. At NNIT, you can make your mark on some of the most challenging projects in the industry, on our journey forward as a company, and on your own career. You’ll work in agile teams with other passionate people in a culture with room for independent thinking and individual responsibility.

We supply IT services to large enterprises that demand high levels of quality and security, and we take on the responsibility for our clients' IT as if it were our own. We live our values every day, so you should be able to see yourself in them. We are: Conscience driven. Value adding. Open and honest.

Our everyday work is characterized by an open and honest atmosphere, and we put emphasis on creating a challenging yet fun working environment. We pay significant attention to job satisfaction, and personal and professional development. You will also be provided with the equipment to get things done such as a workstation with dual monitors, a DSL connection at home, and online technical libraries.

On top of the statutory benefits stipulated by the local law, NNIT DLSP employees enjoy the following benefits upon joining:

• Competitive compensation
• 13th month pay
• Performance bonus (discretionary)
• Rice subsidy
• Communication allowance
• Fitness allowance
• Clothing and laundry allowance
• Medical allowance (Employee and Dependent)
• HMO (Employee and Dependent/s)
• Life insurance
• Vacation leaves and sick leaves (convertible to cash)
• Emergency loan
• Year-end gift
• Wedding gift
• First baby gift
• Breakfast once a week
• Fruits, snacks / well-stocked pantry
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid set up even before the pandemic

Notes:

1. By applying to this job ad, you acknowledge and agree for your information to be collected by NNIT. Rest assured, any information you share will only be used for recruitment/hiring purposes.

2. This position is available only to those with current authorization to live and work in the Philippines.