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 requirementsProduce 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