Power BI Adoption Lead
A leading UK financial services organisation is standing up
a modern cloud data platform, with Power BI as the strategic reporting layer on
top of it. The governed semantic layer, certified datasets, enterprise design
standards and community of practice are still being shaped — and the
organisation is serious enough about data capability to have already invested
in it. You will decide what good looks like, and own it end to end.
This is deliberately not a pure Power BI developer role, and
equally not a change-management role. It is the rarer combination: someone who
can build a performant enterprise semantic model, credibly challenge a
developer's DAX, then stand in front of the business and teach it.
What you'll do
- Own the enterprise Power BI adoption roadmap, with
measurable adoption and value targets.
- Build engagement from the ground up: stakeholder buy-in, a
champions network, forums, clinics and a genuine community of practice.
- Design and personally deliver structured training —
workshops, learning materials and guidance, pitched from Excel-refugee to
seasoned analyst.
- Shape the governed semantic layer alongside data
engineering: consistent KPI definitions, certification processes, naming
conventions and refresh strategy.
- Author the enterprise reporting Design Guide — standards,
templates, palettes, UX conventions — and hold the organisation to it.
- Establish workspace governance: deployment pipelines,
Dev/QA/Prod design, RLS/CLS, sensitivity labelling and auditability.
- Build and optimise flagship dashboards yourself, and
troubleshoot performance where others are stuck.
- Reduce duplicated, ungoverned reporting — and prove you
have.
Requirements
Essential experience
- Power BI technical depth — you have personally delivered
enterprise-scale Power BI. Advanced DAX, Power Query/M, semantic model design
and optimisation, large and complex datasets, workspace strategy and
administration, RLS, certified datasets. You can coach on all of it and push back
on poor implementation.
- Adoption & change leadership — you have created an
enterprise adoption roadmap, run champion networks, driven cultural change
around data-driven decision making, and measured adoption and business value.
This is the most critical dimension of the role.
- Training & enablement — you have designed and personally
delivered structured training programmes and built the materials yourself.
Occasional knowledge-sharing is not what we mean.
- Governance & operating model — reporting standards,
dashboard design principles, workspace management, certified dataset processes
and self-service controls. You know how to scale Power BI without creating a
governance problem.
Desirable
- Microsoft Fabric — architecture, capacity and
medallion/lakehouse patter
- Power Apps, ideally integrated with Power
BI.
- Sensitive, confidential or regulated data; Azure exposure;
PL-300 and/or
Interview process
Shortlisted candidates will prepare a maximum of two
PowerPoint slides on their approach to enterprise Power BI adoption, and demo a
Power BI dashboard they personally designed and built on a dataset of their
choice — covering the business problem, auorytelling, accessibility and how
they would drive ongoing usage. Format and style are entirely your own.
To apply: send a CV or get in touch for a confidential
conversation to [email protected].
Skills Required
- Enterprise-scale Power BI delivery experience
- Advanced DAX expertise
- Power Query/M expertise
- Semantic model design and optimization experience
- Experience working with large and complex datasets
- Power BI workspace strategy and administration experience
- Row-level security experience
- Certified dataset experience
- Experience creating an enterprise adoption roadmap
- Experience running champion networks and driving data-driven cultural change
- Experience measuring adoption and business value
- Experience designing and personally delivering structured training programs
- Experience creating training and enablement materials
- Experience establishing reporting standards, dashboard design principles, workspace management, certified dataset processes, and self-service controls
- Microsoft Fabric architecture, capacity, and medallion or lakehouse pattern experience
- Power Apps experience, ideally integrated with Power BI
- Experience with sensitive, confidential, or regulated data
- Azure exposure
- PL-300 certification
What We Do
Yadimen Consulting is a technology consulting firm focused on financial-services organizations. It delivers technology implementation and strategic consulting services, drawing on expertise in data engineering, fraud strategy, data science, enterprise platforms, and product implementation. The company operates across the US, UK, Nordic countries, and Western Europe, helping clients address sector-specific technology challenges and opportunities through tailored solutions for financial institutions and regulated businesses.
