Job Title: Performance Info Technical Lead
Pay: PAYE £395.94 or £551.76 Umbrella
Location: Aztec West, Bristol
Job ID: 1752
Job Purpose / Overview
The Performance Information Technical Lead will define and implement the governance framework, operating model, and technical standards for the HPC Power BI and Microsoft Fabric estate.
As the organisation continues to scale its analytics capability, this role will lead the transition from organically developed reporting solutions toward a structured, enterprise-aligned platform model that ensures:
Security and regulatory compliance
Operational resilience
Clear ownership and accountability
Sustainable supportability
Efficient use of licensing and platform capacity
This is a senior technical leadership role combining:
Deep Power BI / Fabric administration expertise
Governance and policy design
Platform architecture oversight
Stakeholder engagement and influence
Commercial awareness and optimisation
The role will work across business units, Enterprise IT, and Information Management to ensure analytics capability is robust, scalable, and aligned to HPC's Information Design Authority (IDA) standards.
Principal Accountabilities (Outputs of the Job - Activities & Decisions)
Governance Framework Design
Design and implement the Power BI Governance Framework, including:
Workspace strategy and segmentation
Role-based access control model
Development lifecycle (Dev/Test/Prod)
Deployment pipelines and release governance
Certification and endorsement standards
Metadata, naming, and documentation standards
Data source approval and security processes
Tenant-level governance settings
Align governance to:
Information Design Authority (IDA) processes
Security and data protection standards
Regulatory and audit expectations
Produce clear, accessible governance documentation for business stakeholders.
B. Platform Administration & Technical Oversight
Act as technical authority for the Power BI / Fabric tenant.
Define and oversee:
Workspace provisioning model
Security group structure
Capacity management and optimisation
Monitoring and audit configuration
Gateway architecture and connectivity controls
Service principal and credential management
Standardise adoption of external tools to:
Support model optimisation (DAX Studio)
Enforce best-practice and maintain rulesets (Tabular Editor with Best Practice Analyzer)
Ensure controlled deployments (ALM Toolkit)
Rationalise existing platform assets to:
Improve ownership clarity
Enhance resilience
Reduce duplication
Optimise performance
C. Operating Model & Lifecycle Management
Define RACI across:
Business Owners
Data Owners
Report Developers
Enterprise IT
Information Management
Establish lifecycle management processes covering:
Onboarding
Change control
Certification
Decommissioning
Define support tiers and service boundaries for analytics artefacts.
D.Commercial & Licensing Optimisation
Review and optimise licensing model (Pro, PPU, Fabric Capacity).
Align capacity usage with organisational demand.
Develop transparent reporting on platform usage and cost drivers.
Support financially sustainable scaling of analytics capability.
Stakeholder Engagement & Influence
Work in partnership with Enterprise IT to align platform configuration and access controls.
Engage business stakeholders to:
Promote best practice
Support transition to governance standards
Provide clarity on responsibilities and support boundaries
Present recommendations to IDA and architecture governance forums.
Act as a trusted advisor on enterprise analytics platform strategy.
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience
Essential Technical Competencies
Extensive hands-on experience administering Microsoft Power BI at tenant level.
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Fabric architecture.
Experience managing Premium or Fabric capacities.
Advanced knowledge of DAX calculations and enterprise semantic modelling (star schemas).
Expertise in performance tuning and optimisation of semantic models.
Advanced knowledge of Power Query transformations and diagnostics.
Experienced in optimising SQL and other data sources for analytics workloads .
Working knowledge of Python in an analytics contexts (Fabric notebooks, Databricks).
Advanced understanding of:
Azure AD / Entra ID security groups
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Deployment pipelines
REST APIs for automation
Data gateway architecture
Audit logging and monitoring
Experience designing governance standards for enterprise analytics platforms.
Governance & Platform Maturity Experience
Experience implementing or maturing analytics governance frameworks.
Experience working within structured architectural governance environments.
Experience balancing enablement and control in federated development environments.
Experience improving clarity of ownership and accountability in digital platforms.
Commercial & Strategic Capability
Experience managing or optimising licensing models.
Ability to align technical controls with commercial efficiency.
Experience producing business cases or platform improvement plans.
Personal Attributes
Self-starter with high personal accountability.
Structured and methodical.
Comfortable operating in complex organisational environments.
Strong communicator able to draft policy and technical guidance clearly.
Able to influence senior stakeholders and technical teams.
Resilient and calm under pressure.
Pragmatic, solutions-focused mindset.
Qualifications
Essential
Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (or equivalent advanced Power BI certification)
Degree or equivalent experience in Data, Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline.
Desirable
Microsoft PL-300 (Power BI Data Analyst)
Azure Administrator or Security certifications
Experience in regulated or safety-critical industries
Experience in enterprise-scale analytics transformation
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