Lead BI Engineer

About Us Acora are a progressive full-stack full-service business technology services partner, built for the AI era. Combining the capabilities of a Managed Service Provider (MSP), Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP), IT Consulting, Professional Services and Development company, Acora helps customers achieve breakthrough results - often quicker and at lower risk than they thought possible.

We believe in a better working world, where our customers are confident to fully embrace the AI opportunity and generate economic impact.

Our Values

• Be the best you can be
• We do what we say
• Together we win

Description

Lead BI Engineer responsible for cross-project platform architecture, governance and technical oversight. Operates as a senior technical authority across BI platform engineering, ensuring scalability, security, cost-efficiency and reliability. Drives consistency, reusable patterns and best-practice engineering across multiple teams and engagements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design of complex BI platform architecture, including capacity strategy, environment topology, security model and CI/CD approach
• Own cross-project platform governance, ensuring consistency of security, capacity and deployment standards across teams
• Influence platform and infrastructure decisions across BI, Data Engineering and Architecture teams
• Operate across multiple projects, providing senior platform oversight and acting as an escalation point for complex capacity, security or reliability issues
• Define reusable platform engineering patterns (infrastructure-as-code, deployment pipelines, monitoring frameworks)
• Identify and resolve cross-workstream platform risks, dependencies and cost inefficiencies
• Shape delivery approaches in partnership with BI Developers, BI Analysts, Data Engineers and Architects
• Support stakeholder alignment across business and technical teams on platform capability, capacity and security decisions
• Mentor and guide BI Engineers across teams, improving platform engineering quality and capability

Key Skills

• Deep expertise designing and operating large-scale BI/analytics platforms (Fabric, Power BI, Databricks, Synapse)
• Strong knowledge of capacity planning, cost optimisation and scaling strategies
• Expert understanding of platform security, governance and compliance controls
• Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices for BI environments
• Ability to diagnose and resolve complex platform engineering problems across systems and teams
• Strong communication and stakeholder-influence skills, able to guide senior decision-makers
• Leadership through influence, driving consistency and best practice across multiple teams

Personal Specification

• Confident communicator able to represent Acora's platform standards in client environments
• Operates effectively across multiple projects and ambiguous environments
• Strong ownership mindset with high accountability
• Structured problem-solver with commercial awareness
• Demonstrates leadership through expertise rather than formal authority