IT architect PowerBI - CTBC

Continental is a leading tire manufacturer and industry specialist. Founded in 1871, the company generated sales of €19.7 billion in 2025 and currently employs around 78,000 people in 54 countries and markets.

ContiTech is one of the world’s leading material experts for industry applications. The Continental group sector offers its customers reliable, safe and convenient industry and service solutions using a range of materials for off-highway applications, on rails and roads, in the air, under and above the ground, in industrial environments, for the food sector and the furniture industry. With about 20,000 employees (Status as of March 2026) at more than 60 sites globally, and sales of some 6.0 billion euros (2025), the global industrial partner is active with core branches in Asia, Europe and North and South America.  

Define, implement, and govern enterprise-scale Power BI architecture and development standards across all business functions globally

• Bridge business reporting needs with scalable, secure, and governed technical solutions using Power BI, in alignment with the overall Azure- & Databricks-based data platform strategy
• Promote standardization, reusability, and maintainability of semantic models, datasets, and reporting components
• Enable enterprise-wide data democratization by establishing shared datasets, certified content, and a strong "Power BI as-code" delivery framework

• Reports to: Head of Data & Analytics
• Collaborates with: Power BI developers, data engineers, DevOps engineers, and business-side data domain owners, lead architect (data and analytics) & lead data engineers.
• Geographic scope: Global (all business functions including operations, sales, engineering, R&D, HR, finance, and procurement)
• Platform scope: Power BI service (including tenant configuration, workspace strategy, enterprise gateway infrastructure, REST APIs, deployment tooling) interfacing closely with Azure Databricks, and related Azure-native services

Main Tasks

- Design and maintain Power BI architectural standards and integration patterns with Azure Databricks and other platform components
- Define approaches to shared datasets, semantic models, and certified content
- Guide workspace strategy and capacity planning for global scalability and access control

- Define and enforce governance policies (naming conventions, workspace lifecycle, role-based access controls)
- Establish reusable patterns and standards for semantic model design and report lifecycle
- Support tenant-wide reviews and configuration of security, sharing, and compliance settings

- Promote “Power BI as code” through versioning, deployment automation, and reuse of assets
- Provide templates, CI/CD integration patterns, and developer guidelines for internal Power BI teams
- Enable the setup and governance of shared semantic models to minimize duplication and manual effort

- Design and support solutions for hybrid connectivity using enterprise gateways
- Define secure and performant refresh strategies for hybrid and direct query models
- Support DevOps engineers in operational monitoring and incident resolution for gateway-related dependencies

- Serve as technical liaison to business-side data domain owners and reporting teams
- Ensure Power BI strategy aligns with broader data platform architecture and governance
- Drive adoption of best practices and provide architectural oversight to internal Power BI developers

Education / Certification:
Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Intelligence, or related field
Preferred: Microsoft Certified – Power BI Data Analyst Associate or equivalent Power Platform certifications

• Professional Experience:
  Minimum 5 years in designing and delivering enterprise Power BI solutions
  Proven experience in defining reusable models, governance policies, and deployment standards
• Project or Process Experience:
  Experience leading or supporting Power BI initiatives across multiple business domains and geographies
  Deep familiarity with implementation patterns in hybrid reporting environments (cloud/on-prem)
• Leadership Experience:
  Demonstrated architectural leadership across technical teams and business stakeholders; influence through standards and best practices rather than direct reporting lines
• Intercultural / International Experience:
  Experience working in global organizations with cross-functional teams across time zones and cultures

What we offer:

The 13-th salary – Paid once a year, in December;
Meal tickets - With a value of 40 Ron;
Private Health Insurance – Health is the most important, so we offer you a medical subscription through Signal Iduna;
Referral bonuses - We encourage colleagues to refer new candidates to us and, at the same time, to get the chance to receive a bonus;
Bookster – Feed your body and your mind. You can borrow books and you’ll receive them at the office;
Sports benefits- It’s important to stay active, so we offer you the 7Card;
Discounts at our partners – We collaborate with different vendors, and we receive discounts for various products/ services like rubbers, restaurants, kindergartens, etc;
System for Rewarding Improvement Ideas – We have an internal improvement program (Continental Idea Management) that gives you the opportunity to come up with ideas and to be honored with an attractive bonus (this is established by the CIM team according to your improvement idea);
Happy days – If you or your child is getting married, or you become a parent, you receive some extra free days;
Life events celebration - If your family is growing, we praise your newborn with a bonus;
Unfortunate events - In case of unhappy events in your life, we support you by offering you free days and financial support (handled on a case by-case basis);
Extra vacation days – You begin with 22 vacation days/year, and starting with the 3rd year with us, we offer you 1 more day of vacation and. We reward employees who reach 15 and 20 years within the company with another day of vacation, reaching a maximum of 29 days.
Professional development - Many opportunities to develop yourself within the company;
Diversity and multicultural mindset - We encourage you to join us no matter who, where, or what you are. We have colleagues from different nations and a variety of languages are spoken in our company.