Power BI Lead | Business Intelligence & Analytics

Job Title: Power BI Lead | Business Intelligence & AnalyticsDuration: 1 yr ext.

Location: DubaiROLE SUMMARYWe are seeking an experienced Power BI Lead to design, develop and govern scalable enterprise BI solutions using Power BI, Microsoft Fabric and the Azure data ecosystem.

The role combines hands-on technical leadership, strong data modelling and visualisation expertise, team mentoring, and close engagement with business and technology stakeholders to deliver secure, high-performing and actionable analytics solutions.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and architect enterprise-grade BI solutions, semantic models and reusable datasets using Power BI, Microsoft Fabric and Azure data services.
• Define and enforce development standards for dimensional modelling, DAX, Power Query (M), report design, accessibility, optimisation and documentation.
• Develop interactive dashboards, scorecards and reports aligned with business KPIs, operational needs and strategic objectives.
• Implement governance, workspace management, deployment pipelines, CI/CD, version control, Row-Level Security (RLS) and Object-Level Security (OLS).
• Integrate reporting solutions with Azure Synapse, Data Lake, Databricks, SQL Server, API Endpoints and other enterprise applications in collaboration with data engineering teams.
• Optimise large datasets, complex calculations, refresh processes and capacity utilisation to ensure scalability, reliability and strong user experience.
• Lead and mentor BI developers and analysts through solution reviews, code reviews, knowledge sharing and delivery oversight.
• Partner with business stakeholders, IT teams and senior leadership to translate requirements into measurable analytics outcomes and drive self-service BI adoption.
• Support solution demonstrations, project estimations, proposals, client workshops and continuous improvement using Fabric, Copilot and emerging BI/AI capabilities.REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
• 7-8 years of experience in Business Intelligence, Data Analytics or enterprise reporting, including 4-5+ years of strong hands-on Power BI experience.
• Advanced expertise in Power BI, DAX, Power Query (M), dashboard development, data visualisation and performance tuning.
• Strong knowledge of star schema, snowflake schema, dimensional modelling, data warehousing and semantic model design.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, relational databases, ETL/ELT workflows and the Azure data ecosystem, including Synapse, Data Lake, Databricks and Microsoft Fabric.
• Proven experience governing enterprise BI environments and leading BI projects or development teams.
• Excellent analytical, communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills, including interaction with senior and CXO-level stakeholders.PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONSMicrosoft Power BI or Fabric certification; experience with Agile delivery, enterprise analytics transformation and AI-enabled analytics.