Senior Cloud Analytics Engineer

Cloud Engineer III

Job Title: Cloud Engineer III

Role Overview

We are seeking an Analytics Engineer to design, build, and operate our analytics and automations. This role is responsible for delivering high-quality Power BI reporting, establishing and maintaining Microsoft Fabric, and building business automations and applications using Python, Power Automate and Power Apps.

You will be part of the Cloud & Service Management organization helping to evolve our self-service analytics, scalable data architecture, and automations—while ensuring security, performance, and governance across the platform.

This is a hands-on role with ownership of both solution delivery and platform best practices.

Key Responsibilities

Analytics & Reporting

• Design, develop, and maintain reports and dashboards
• Build and optimize semantic models using strong dimensional modeling (star schema)
• Write and tune DAX measures with a focus on performance and usability
• Implement Power BI deployment pipelines and promote content across environments

Microsoft Fabric Platform

• Establish and maintain Microsoft Fabric architecture, including:
• Lakehouse and/or Warehouse
• Dataflows Gen2
• OneLake data organization
• Manage Fabric capacities, workspaces, and permissions
• Monitor performance, cost, and reliability of Fabric workloads
• Develop and maintain Python-based data transformations and notebooks within Fabric
• Use Python for data preparation, enrichment, validation, and advanced analytics
• Define and enforce data modeling and medallion architecture standards

Automation & Applications

• Build and maintain automation flows for business processes, approvals, and integrations
• Develop Apps to support business workflows
• Work with Dataverse, connectors, and security roles
• Implement error handling, logging, and operational support patterns

Platform Governance & Operations

• Define Dev/Test/Prod environment strategy for reporting and automation platform
• Implement Application Life best practices (solutions, pipelines, source control where applicable)
• Establish governance standards to prevent platform sprawl
• Partner with security and IT teams on access control and compliance
• Provide guidance and enablement to analysts and citizen developers

Collaboration & Leadership

• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Act as a subject matter expert for Fabric and Power Platform
• Mentor junior team members and promote best practices
• Contribute to platform roadmap and continuous improvement efforts

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in analytics, BI, or data engineering roles
• 3+ years of hands-on Power BI development experience
• Strong experience with Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse, Warehouse, Dataflows)
• Proficient in DAX, SQL, and data modeling
• Hands-on experience with:
• Power Automate (cloud flows, approvals, integrations)
• Power Apps (Canvas apps)
• Dataverse
• Python
• Experience managing environments, security, and deployments
• Strong understanding of data governance and analytics best practices
• Candidates must be willing to work UK or US hours

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise-scale analytics platforms
• Familiarity with Azure services (Azure SQL, Data Factory, Synapse)
• Experience with CI/CD concepts for Power Platform and Power BI
• Power Platform or Microsoft analytics certifications
• Experience working in a Center of Excellence (CoE) model

Experience Level

Senior Level