M26307 Microsoft Fabric & Power Platform Specialist (Locally recruited)

CIMMYT is a cutting-edge, non-profit, international organization dedicated to solving tomorrow’s problems today. It is entrusted with fostering improved quantity, quality, and dependability of production systems and basic cereals such as maize, wheat, triticale, sorghum, millets, and associated crops through applied agricultural science, particularly in the Global South, through building strong partnerships. This combination enhances the livelihood trajectories and resilience of millions of resource-poor farmers, while working towards a more productive, inclusive, and resilient agrifood system within planetary boundaries. CIMMYT is a core CGIAR Research Center, a global research partnership for a food-secure future, dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and improving natural resources.  For more information, visit https://www.cimmyt.org/

Responsibilities:

The Specialist's responsibilities are organized into the following workstreams. Each workstream includes representative activities; the Specialist is expected to exercise professional judgment to address related tasks not explicitly listed but reasonably within scope.

• Build data pipelines and orchestrate data flows across source systems into the Fabric lakehouse/warehouse

• Integrate Fabric pipelines with automated processes and triggers (Power Automate, scheduled and event-driven)

• Support event-driven and scheduled data operations, including monitoring of pipeline health and failures

• Maintain data models and documentation for datasets consumed by downstream reporting and automation

• Develop Power BI dashboards, reports, and datasets aligned with business needs

• Align reporting with business KPIs and automated outputs (e.g., scheduled refreshes, automated distribution)

• Build and maintain semantic models and DAX calculations to support consistent, reusable metrics

• Optimize report and dataset performance (query folding, aggregations, incremental refresh)

• Design and implement Power Automate flows (cloud and desktop, where applicable)

• Automate business processes such as data refresh notifications, approval workflows, data validation and exception handling, and report distribution/alerting

• Integrate automation with Power BI (alerts, subscriptions, triggers), Dataverse and D365, and Fabric pipelines

• Implement error handling, retry logic, and monitoring for all production automation flows

• Optimize workflows for performance and reliability

• Promote reusable and standardized automation components (templates, connection references, environment variables)

• Combine data and automation orchestration into coherent end-to-end solutions

• Enable event-based and scheduled integrations across source and target systems

• Coordinate data movement aligned with business process timing requirements (e.g., month-end close, reporting cycles)

• Deliver integrated solutions using Power BI (analytics), Power Automate (automation), Agentic AI capabilities (where applicable), and Dataverse (data layer)

• Ensure end-to-end scenarios are designed coherently across the data → insight → action chain

• Support low-code solutions for business teams, balancing enablement with appropriate governance

• Define and apply governance for both reporting and automation artifacts (environments, DLP policies, app/flow ownership)

• Implement data governance practices across Fabric, Power BI, and Power Platform

• Define and maintain data standards, naming conventions, and dataset certification/endorsement criteria

• Ensure data quality controls across data pipelines (Fabric), reports (Power BI), and automated workflows (Power Automate)

• Maintain a catalog of certified datasets, flows, and reports, with clear ownership

• Optimize Power BI datasets, Fabric pipelines, and Power Automate flows (run duration, latency, cost)

• Monitor capacity usage, flow execution performance, and failure/retry rates

• Recommend and implement remediation for recurring performance or reliability issues

• Enable business users to build their own reports and create governed automation flows

• Provide templates (reports and flows), best practices, and governance guardrails

• Deliver training and documentation to support adoption of self-service capabilities

Requirements:

Power Platform

• Strong experience with:

◦ Power BI (data modeling, DAX, report design, performance tuning)

◦ Power Automate (flows, expressions, connectors, error handling)

◦ Dataverse (data layer for Power Platform solutions)

Automation & Integration

• Experience designing:

◦ Workflow automation across business processes

◦ Event-driven processes (triggers, webhooks, scheduled runs)

• Knowledge of:

◦ Connectors (standard and custom)

◦ REST APIs, triggers, and webhooks

Fabric + Automation Convergence

• Experience integrating:

◦ Fabric pipelines with Power Automate

◦ Power BI alerts with downstream workflows

Professional Experience

• Minimum 4–5 years of relevant experience in BI/reporting, process automation, or a closely related discipline

• Demonstrated track record delivering Power BI and/or Power Automate solutions in a production enterprise environment

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions

CIMMYT offers an attractive remuneration package and support for continuous professional development. In addition to the provisions of the Mexican Labor Law our package of benefits includes year-end bonus (40 days), vacation premium (56%), life and medical insurance, supermarket coupons, savings fund, social Mexican benefits (IMSS, SAR / Infonavit).

Please note only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Foreign national candidates must have legal documents to work in Mexico.

This position will remain open until filled.

CIMMYT is an equal opportunity employer. It fosters a multicultural work environment that values gender equality, teamwork, and respect for diversity.