Performance Technical Info Lead

Performance Information Technical Lead – Power BI / Microsoft Fabric

Client: EDF

Location: Bristol (Hybrid – on-site days TBC)

Contract: Until 31/12/2026

Rate: £500–£579 per day (Inside IR35)

Security Clearance: BPSS required

Overview

EDF is seeking a Performance Information Technical Lead to own the governance, architecture, and operational model of its Power BI and Microsoft Fabric estate within the HPC programme.

This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for transitioning a growing, business-led reporting environment into a secure, enterprise-governed analytics platform aligned to Information Design Authority (IDA), security, and regulatory standards.

You will act as the technical authority for the tenant , defining governance frameworks, lifecycle processes, and platform standards while optimising licensing, capacity, and operational resilience.

Key Responsibilities

Governance Framework

• Design and implement the enterprise Power BI governance model , including:
• Workspace strategy and segmentation
• RBAC and security group model
• Dev/Test/Prod lifecycle and deployment pipelines
• Certification and endorsement standards
• Naming, metadata, and documentation standards
• Data source approval and security controls
• Tenant-level governance settings
• Align governance with IDA, security, data protection, and audit requirements
• Produce clear, accessible governance documentation for business stakeholders

Platform Administration & Technical Oversight

• Act as technical authority for the Power BI / Fabric tenant
• Define and oversee:
• Workspace provisioning and ownership model
• Capacity management and optimisation
• Monitoring, audit logging, and usage analytics
• Gateway architecture and connectivity controls
• Service principals and credential management
• Standardise use of enterprise tooling (e.g. DAX Studio, Tabular Editor, ALM Toolkit)
• Rationalise and optimise the existing estate to improve resilience, performance, and cost efficiency

Operating Model & Lifecycle Management

• Define RACI across business owners, data owners, developers, Enterprise IT, and Information Management
• Establish lifecycle processes for onboarding, change control, certification, and decommissioning
• Define support tiers and service boundaries for analytics artefacts

Commercial & Licensing Optimisation

• Review and optimise Pro, PPU, and Fabric capacity licensing models
• Align platform capacity with organisational demand
• Deliver transparent reporting on usage and cost drivers
• Support financially sustainable scaling of analytics capability

Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with Enterprise IT on platform configuration and access controls
• Engage business stakeholders to embed governance standards and clarify responsibilities
• Present recommendations to architecture and IDA governance forums
• Act as a trusted advisor on enterprise analytics platform strategy

Essential Technical Experience

• Extensive tenant-level administration of Power BI
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Fabric architecture
• Experience managing Premium and/or Fabric capacities
• Advanced DAX and enterprise semantic modelling (star schema)
• Performance tuning and optimisation of semantic models
• Advanced Power Query diagnostics and optimisation
• SQL optimisation for analytics workloads
• Working knowledge of Python in analytics contexts (e.g. Fabric notebooks, Databricks)
• Strong understanding of:
• Entra ID / Azure AD security groups
• RBAC models
• Deployment pipelines
• Power BI REST APIs and automation
• Data gateway architecture
• Audit logging and monitoring
• Proven experience designing enterprise analytics governance frameworks

Governance & Platform Maturity

• Experience implementing or maturing analytics governance in a federated environment
• Experience operating within structured architecture governance (e.g. IDA)
• Track record of improving ownership, accountability, and lifecycle management for data platforms

Commercial & Strategic

• Experience optimising licensing and capacity models
• Ability to align technical controls with commercial efficiency
• Experience producing platform roadmaps or business cases

Qualifications

Essential:

• Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (or equivalent advanced Power BI certification)
• Degree (or equivalent experience) in Data, Engineering, Computer Science, or similar

Desirable:

• PL-300 (Power BI Data Analyst)
• Azure Administrator and/or Security certifications
• Experience in regulated or safety-critical environments
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale analytics transformation

Personal Profile

• Self-starter with strong personal accountability
• Structured, methodical, and pragmatic
• Comfortable operating in complex, federated organisations
• Strong communicator able to produce policy and technical guidance
• Confident influencing senior stakeholders and technical teams

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