Microsoft Fabric Platform Engineer

Microsoft Fabric Platform Engineer

Role overview

Join the Fabric Center of Excellence to operate, govern and continuously improve an enterprise-scale Microsoft Fabric and Power BI environment. This role combines platform administration, capacity and gateway management, automation, incident response and enablement of AI-powered analytics capabilities.

Key responsibilities

• Administer Microsoft Fabric and Power BI tenant settings, capacities, domains, workspaces and access controls.
• Establish and enforce governance standards across security, data protection, workspace lifecycle, deployment and operational compliance.
• Monitor capacity health, utilization and throttling; support workload planning, performance optimization and proactive remediation.
• Manage on-premises and virtual network data gateways, including clusters, data-source connectivity, upgrades, availability and troubleshooting.
• Automate platform operations, monitoring, governance reporting and deployment activities using PowerShell, Python, REST APIs and CI/CD practices.
• Own incident triage, root-cause analysis, service restoration, stakeholder communication and knowledge documentation.
• Support AI Agents, Data Agents, ontologies and AI-ready semantic models through secure, governed platform patterns.
• Partner with engineering, BI, security and business teams to onboard solutions and improve platform reliability and adoption.

Required technical capabilities

• Strong hands-on experience in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI administration.
• Capacity administration, monitoring, performance analysis and optimization.
• Gateway architecture, configuration, high availability, upgrades and issue resolution.
• Governance, access management, security controls, lifecycle management and operational standards.
• Python, SQL, DAX, Fabric Notebooks, semantic models and Semantic Link Labs.
• Working knowledge of AI Agents, Data Agents, ontology concepts and Copilot-enabled analytics.
• Automation using PowerShell, REST APIs, Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Structured incident management, troubleshooting and clear technical documentation.

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Qualifications and certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600) is mandatory.
• Related certifications such as PL-300, DP-203, AI-102 or AZ-104 are preferred.
• 3-5 years of relevant experience in data, analytics, BI or cloud platform engineering, including hands-on administration responsibilities.

Preferred experience

• Supporting enterprise-scale Fabric or Power BI environments in a global operating model.
• Capacity troubleshooting, workload governance, service monitoring and performance tuning.
• Microsoft Purview, data lineage, DLP, RBAC and enterprise governance practices.
• Lakehouse, Direct Lake, deployment pipelines and release management.

Behavioral competencies

• Strong problem-solving mindset with attention to operational detail.
• Ability to prioritize incidents and communicate clearly with technical and business stakeholders.
• Ownership, accountability and a continuous-improvement orientation.
• Willingness and ability to work the mandatory 5:00 PM IST to 2:00 AM IST shift.

Success in this role

• Reliable, secure and well-governed platform operations.
• Reduced recurring incidents through automation and corrective actions.
• Improved capacity visibility, gateway resilience and adherence to CoE standards.

Safe enablement of governed Fabric AI and analytics capabilities