Senior Administrator, Systems (PowerBI)

 

Continue to Grow with GXO. 

 

At GXO, we know our greatest asset is people like you - energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. Your career matters to us because your passion and excitement will help keep our company moving forward.

 

Power BI & Microsoft Fabric Platform Administrator

Are you ready to take your career to the next level with a rapidly growing global company? As the Power BI & Microsoft Fabric Platform Administrator, you will serve as a key technical expert responsible for administering, securing, and optimizing the organization's Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Fabric analytics platform. This is a hands-on engineering and administration role focused on delivering secure, scalable, and highly available business intelligence and analytics services that empower data-driven decision-making across the enterprise.

Working alongside Data Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and Business stakeholders, you'll help build and maintain a modern analytics platform by administering Power BI and Microsoft Fabric environments, implementing governance and security standards, managing enterprise capacities, supporting CI/CD, and ensuring the reliability and performance of mission-critical reporting solutions.

If you're looking for an opportunity to shape the future of enterprise analytics while building a secure, governed, and scalable Microsoft analytics platform, join us and help transform how the business leverages data.

Pay, benefits and more

We are eager to attract the best, so we offer competitive compensation and a generous benefits package, including full health insurance (medical, dental and vision), 401(k), life insurance, disability and more.

What you'll do on a typical day

• Administer and support the enterprise Microsoft Power BI environment, including tenant administration, workspace governance, report deployment, security administration, and platform configuration.
• Administer and support Microsoft Fabric workloads, including OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Data Factory, Real-Time Analytics, and Fabric Capacity Management.
• Manage and optimize Power BI Premium and Microsoft Fabric capacities by monitoring utilization, workload performance, capacity planning, scaling, and resolving throttling issues.
• Implement and maintain enterprise governance standards, including workspace lifecycle management, naming standards, content certification, deployment pipelines, and tenant settings.
• Administer Power BI security, including Row-Level Security (RLS), Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) integration, workspace permissions, external sharing, and data access governance.
• Install, configure, upgrade, troubleshoot, and maintain On-Premises Data Gateways while ensuring high availability and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Support SQL Server environments, including database administration, backup and recovery, security, replication, log shipping, performance tuning, and high-availability solutions.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Git integration, deployment pipelines, and PowerShell automation to improve operational efficiency and platform reliability.
• Monitor platform health, proactively identify performance issues, perform root cause analysis, and resolve incidents impacting reporting and analytics services.
• Support Production, Pre-Production, Test, and Development environments through release management, deployments, environment refreshes, and operational support.
• Partner with Information Security to implement governance, compliance, auditing, data protection, and secure access controls across the analytics platform.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering teams to support enterprise data models, semantic models, Fabric workloads, and reporting solutions.
• Develop automation solutions using PowerShell and Microsoft platform APIs to reduce manual administration and improve operational efficiency.
• Implement platform monitoring, alerting, capacity reporting, usage analytics, and operational dashboards to ensure service reliability.
• Document platform standards, operational procedures, governance policies, and administration best practices.
• Serve as a senior platform administrator by troubleshooting complex technical issues, mentoring team members, reviewing platform configurations, and promoting operat