Role Summary
As a highly experienced BI Architect, you will assume a pivotal and senior role, responsible for the end-to-end design, implementation, and maintenance of our enterprise-level Business Intelligence (BI) governance architecture and reporting ecosystem. This position goes beyond mere report creation; it involves shaping the strategic direction of how data is transformed from complex raw sources into actionable, high-impact business insights that drive key decision-making across the organization. You will be instrumental in ensuring our BI platform is scalable, secure, high-performing, and aligns with best-in-class industry standards.
Role Overview: Strategic Impact and Leadership
You will be a key strategic contributor essential to our next phase of data-driven growth. Your primary focus is to design and architect robust, scalable BI solutions capable of supporting advanced reporting, in-depth analytics, and seamless report integration across various business units.
Specifically, you will:
- Define and implement the overarching BI architecture standards, best practices, and comprehensive governance principles. This includes establishing data lineage, metadata management frameworks, and report certification processes.
- Ensure the quality, consistency, and security of all reports and data assets across all utilized BI platforms (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, etc.) through rigorous standards enforcement and monitoring.
- Act as the subject matter expert (SME), providing technical leadership and mentorship to BI developers, analysts, and data engineering teams, fostering a culture of data quality and architectural excellence.
Key Responsibilities: Architectural Design and Governance
Your day-to-day activities will encompass a blend of strategic architectural planning and hands-on governance implementation:
Architectural Design and Development
- Design and architect highly scalable and performance-optimized BI solutions tailored to meet evolving reporting and sophisticated analytical requirements.
- Collaborate with data engineering teams to develop complex data models and the underlying data warehouse structures specifically for reporting efficiency and business context.
Semantic Layer and BI Governance
- Collaborate intensely with cross-functional business stakeholders, data governance teams, and technical team members to continuously monitor and enforce organization-wide reporting quality and BI standards.
- Define and rigorously implement BI architecture standards, semantic layer, best practices, and robust governance principles across the organization.
- Set up, configure, and meticulously manage BI tool workspace permissions, ensuring strict access control through Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), security roles, and user access policies.
- Develop and oversee usage monitoring programs and auditing frameworks within our BI tool to track adoption, identify performance bottlenecks, and enforce compliance.
- Ensure report quality and data consistency, on our BI platform.
Qualifications Required: Technical Expertise and Experience
To be successful in this role, candidates must possess a deep and proven track record in BI architecture and data engineering:
- Experience: 7+ years of progressive experience in Business Intelligence engineering, data analytics, or a related data discipline.
- BI Governance Focus: A minimum of 2+ years of dedicated, hands-on experience in BI governance, including formal BI administration, enterprise-level metadata management, and developing/enforcing data quality frameworks.
- SQL and Data Warehousing: Extensive expert-level SQL experience is mandatory covering advanced query writing.