Manager Information Technology (M2) - Data Decision Products

Job Description

The Manager Information Technology (M2) plans, organizes, and directs work related to data decision products within PSE's Data & AI organization. The M2 owns the strategy, delivery, availability, and continuous improvement of PSE’s enterprise Power BI reporting platform across on-premises Power BI Report Server and Power BI in Microsoft Fabric. The manager leads a team of IT professionals, many of whom operate with significant autonomy and independence, and may also oversee lower-level managers and contractors. The ideal candidate has extensive experience with Power BI and will need to closely partner with data engineering and platform teams as well as reporting platform stakeholders across the organization (data scientists, centralized and decentralized reporting teams, business units, senior leadership, etc.) to provide a reporting platform that meets their evolving needs.

All PSE employees are expected to uphold the safety compliance standards inherent in PSE’s operating and/or field procedures related to work responsibilities and promote and support a culture of total safety. Additionally, employees need to demonstrate commitment to conduct business honestly, ethically and consistent with our core values and Code of Conduct. All duties are to be performed in accordance with all regulatory compliance obligations. 

This job is considered “safety sensitive” as defined in RCW 49.44.240 and is subject to pre-employment drug screening that includes screening for the presence of marijuana and marijuana metabolites.

Job Responsibilities

People leadership, safety & team building

• Provides coaching, feedback, direction, and development opportunities; sets clear expectations and holds employees accountable for performance, goals, and safety standards.
• Conducts and ensures completion of performance reviews and development plans; makes effective staffing decisions; ensures required training is completed.
• Builds effective, motivated, multidisciplinary teams and fosters a collaborative, customer-oriented team environment across employees and contractors.

Enterprise reporting platform (primary accountability)

• Owns the strategy, delivery, availability, and continuous improvement of PSE’s enterprise Power BI reporting platform across on-premises Power BI Report Server and Power BI in Microsoft Fabric.
• Advances a governed, distributed self-service reporting model — establishing standards, guardrails, and support processes that let business teams build and publish their own reports while protecting quality, security, and performance.
• Leads the migration and rationalization of legacy reporting from BusinessObjects (BOBJ), BEx queries, and SAP BW into Power BI/Fabric, including semantic model design and report consolidation.
• Sets and monitors service-level targets for the reporting platform; identifies and reports on KPIs for platform health, adoption, and delivery.
• Works closely with data engineering and platform teams as well as reporting platform stakeholders across the organization (data scientists, centralized and decentralized reporting teams, business units, senior leadership, etc.) to provide a reporting platform that meets their evolving needs.
• Accountable for platforms carrying Tier 1 uptime and disaster-recovery obligations. This role is not a first-call/primary on-call position, but may be called into incident bridges to provide management direction during significant incidents.

Additional team responsibilities may include:

• Database Administration: Directs database administration across MS SQL Server and Oracle (on-premises and cloud), plus limited support for other database technologies; ensures availability, performance, patching, backup/recovery, and disaster-recovery readiness for Tier 1 systems.
• Data Governance: Oversees the Microsoft Purview platform and drives adoption of naming standards, data classification, and lineage tracking in partnership with business units and other IT teams.
• Document Management: Directs the maintenance and socialization of PSE’s document/records lifecycle management