Role Summary
Artiminds is seeking a Senior Power BI Architect to lead the design, governance, and performance optimization of enterprise-wide analytics solutions.
You will set architectural standards, mentor developers, and partner with senior business leaders to deliver best-in-class Power BI platforms that drive actionable insights.
A background with Snowflake and Azure Data Lake is important for end-to-end data reliability, but Power BI is the primary focus.
Key Responsibilities – Power BI First
- Enterprise Data Modeling – Design and maintain complex star / snowflake schemas, composite models, and large semantic layers to support hundreds of reports and thousands of users.
- Advanced DAX & M – Author and review highly optimized DAX measures and Power Query (M) transformations for mission-critical analytics.
- Performance Engineering – Lead capacity planning and tuning for Power BI Premium , including incremental refresh, aggregations, Direct Lake / DirectQuery, partitioning, and query folding.
- Governance & Security – Implement and enforce Row-Level Security (RLS), Object-Level Security (OLS), workspace strategies, and tenant administration in Azure AD / Entra ID.
- Reusable Assets – Build enterprise-grade shared datasets, dataflows, and templates to enable governed self-service analytics.
- Lifecycle & DevOps – Drive CI / CD pipelines for Power BI using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, including automated testing and deployment across environments.
- Embedded & API – Architect solutions for Power BI Embedded or custom portal integrations when needed.
- Monitoring & Optimization – Use tools like Power BI REST API, Log Analytics, and Performance Analyzer to proactively manage capacity, refresh, and user adoption.
- Stakeholder Enablement – Conduct training, documentation, and adoption workshops to elevate business user capabilities and promote a data-driven culture.
- Cross-Platform Integration – Oversee secure, high-performance connections to Snowflake , Azure Data Lake , and other enterprise sources.
Required Skills & Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.8+ years of enterprise BI / analytics experience, with 5+ years dedicated to Power BI architecture and advanced development.Proven record of designing large, complex Power BI solutions supporting thousands of users.Deep expertise in DAX, Power Query (M), and dimensional modeling for high-volume datasets.Strong SQL skills and performance-tuning experience with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake preferred).Hands-on governance experience with Azure Active Directory / Entra ID .Excellent leadership and communication skills to influence executives and mentor technical teams.Nice to Have
Experience with Power BI Embedded, Analysis Services Tabular, or multi-geo tenant configurations.Familiarity with Python or R for advanced analytics or ML integration.