Location: Dublin / Hybrid Working
Contract Type: Fixed-Term Contract / Daily Rate Engagement
Reporting To: Head of Data & Analytics
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Senior BI Architect to lead the design, implementation, and evolution of a modern enterprise analytics platform built on Microsoft Fabric. This is a key leadership role responsible for defining the architecture, standards, and roadmap for data and business intelligence capabilities across the organisation.
The successful candidate will work with business and ICT stakeholders to ensure data platforms, governance standards, and analytics solutions support strategic decision-making while being scalable, secure, and future-ready.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end architecture of enterprise BI and analytics solutions.
- Design Microsoft Fabric architecture including lakehouse, warehouse, semantic models, and reporting layers.
- Define enterprise data models, integration patterns, and architecture standards.
- Establish and promote best practices for BI development and data governance.
- Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into scalable solutions.
- Oversee platform lifecycle activities including migration, optimisation, scalability, and performance management.
- Maintain alignment between data architecture, business objectives, and enterprise technology strategy.
- Provide leadership and technical guidance to data engineering, analytics, and reporting teams.
Requirements
- 7+ years' experience in BI, data architecture, or enterprise analytics roles.
- Significant experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale BI and analytics platforms.
Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric and/or Azure Analytics technologies including:
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure Data Lake
- Power BI
- Fabric Notebooks and PySpark
Experience developing:
- Enterprise data models
- Conceptual, logical and physical data architectures
- Integration architecture documentation
- Strong understanding of data governance, DevOps, source control, and deployment automation.
- Experience working in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.
- Microsoft Azure or Fabric certifications.
- Data Architecture or Enterprise Architecture certifications.
Key Skills
- Microsoft Fabric
- Power BI
- Azure Analytics
- Data Modelling
- Data Warehousing
- Data Governance
- Azure DevOps
- Stakeholder Management
- Solution Architecture
Skills Required
- 7+ years' experience in BI, data architecture, or enterprise analytics roles
- Significant experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale BI and analytics platforms
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric
- Experience with Azure Data Factory
- Experience with Azure Data Lake
- Experience with Power BI
- Experience with Fabric Notebooks and PySpark
- Experience developing enterprise data models (conceptual, logical, physical)
- Experience producing integration architecture documentation and integration patterns
- Strong understanding of data governance, DevOps, source control, and deployment automation
- Experience working in complex, multi-stakeholder environments and stakeholder management
- Degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline
- Microsoft Azure or Fabric certifications
- Data Architecture or Enterprise Architecture certifications
What We Do
TEKenable are Experts in AI & Data utilising cloud solutions to drive business transformation. We are a technology company delivering the latest innovative business solutions to forward-thinking public and private enterprises in Ireland, the UK, Europe and the Middle East. TEKenable helps you maximise revenue, reduce costs, and empower your employees to bring results faster using rapid digital transformation services. Established in Dublin, Ireland, TEKenable has evolved into a robust IT company and achieved noteworthy global expansion and success since its inception in 2002. TEKenable has achieved Microsoft Azure Advanced Specialisations in Migration of Enterprise Apps to Microsoft Azure, AI and Machine Learning and has 4 solution designations – Azure Digital & App Innovation, Azure Data & AI, Business Applications and Azure Infrastructure; and are proud to have been awarded three Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards for Business Applications, Business Central and Building with AI. We also boast three ISO certifications namely ISO9001 for quality management, ISO27001 for cybersecurity, and ISO13485 for the medical device industry, underscoring our commitment to international standards. TEKenable takes pride in being consistently included in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and being a recipient of Deloitte Technology Impact award, twice. We are also grateful to have had our staff nominate us as a Best Place to Work in Ireland for the last 3 years in the Mid-size category, as well as in the UK.
