Microsoft Fabric Data & Analytics Program Lead

W2 Candidates Only Occasional work onsite (1-2 times per month) Must be within a commutable distance to Harrisburg, PAOur client is seeking an experienced Microsoft Fabric Data & Analytics Program Lead to direct the enterprise rollout and adoption of Microsoft Fabric as their unified data analytics platform. This leader will turn business priorities into a governed, secure, and scalable roadmap covering data ingestion, engineering, modeling, reporting, Power Bl, Al-enabled analytics, and enterprise adoption.Key ResponsibilitiesOwn the Microsoft Fabric implementation strategy, delivery plan, governance model, adoption approach, and operating model.Lead discovery with Finance, Treasury, Risk and Compliance, Operations, Product Strategy, IT, and other stakeholders to identify and sequence high-value analytics use cases.Design and oversee Fabric solutions using OneLake, lakehouses, warehouses, data pipelines, notebooks, semantic models, Power Bl, real-time analytics, and Al-enabled experiences.Guide integration of data from Azure services, SharePoint, Salesforce, operational systems, application telemetry, and approved identity or access sources.Establish architecture, workspace, naming, deployment, monitoring, lineage, lifecycle management, backup, and disaster-recovery standards.Partner with Risk, Security, IT, Legal, and data owners to implement least-privilege access, privacy, retention, auditability, segregation of duties, and regulatory compliance controls.Define data ownership, stewardship, quality controls, reconciliation, master and reference data practices, and certification standards for trusted reporting.Direct delivery of the Fed Account Management use case, including ingestion, transformation, querying, dashboards, reporting, balance analysis, forecasting, alerting, and future machine-learning opportunities.Integrate Power Bl and governed natural-language analytics into business workflows while validating outputs and promoting responsible Al use.Manage cost, capacity, licensing, performance, and usage practices; monitor consumption and recommend optimization actions.Create delivery plans, milestones, risk registers, status reports, executive communications, training, runbooks, data dictionaries, and knowledge-transfer materials.Define and report adoption, reliability, data quality, delivery, financial, and business-value metrics to guide the roadmap.Required QualificationsSubstantial experience leading enterprise data, analytics, Bl, cloud, or platform implementations from planning through production adoption.Hands-on expertise with Microsoft Fabric and Power Bl, including data engineering, lakehouse or warehouse design, pipelines, semantic modeling, security, deployment, monitoring, and performance optimization.Strong Azure knowledge and experience integrating cloud services with on-premises and software-as-a-service data sources.Demonstrated ability to establish data governance, quality, metadata, lineage, access-control, privacy, retention, and audit practices.Experience translating complex business and financial requirements into scalable technical solutions and measurable delivery plans.Proven program leadership, stakeholder management, vendor coordination, presentation, documentation, and change-management skills.Preferred QualificationsExperience in regulated financial-services environment.Familiarity with Federal Reserve account activity, cash-position management, forecasting, reconciliation, anomaly detection, or liquidity reporting.Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Azure Monitor or Application Insights, Salesforce, SQL, Python, notebooks, APls, and data integration patterns.Experience implementing responsible Al, machine learning, natural-language analytics, or Copilot-enabled solutions on governed enterprise data.Relevant Microsoft certifications in Fabric, Power Bl, Azure data engineering, solution architecture, security, or related disciplines.