Senior Specialist: IT Systems Support (Power BI Administrator) at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

As a Senior Specialist: IT Systems Support your primary responsibility is to Empower, support and provide Power BI Premium capabilities to the business which supports the data and reporting strategy whilst enforcing rules and adhering to KPIs and SLAs.

Manage, Maintain, Support the Power BI Premium Capacity and Workspaces along with ensuring secure data controls as well as proper capacity planning and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Actively performs administrative, monitoring, and diagnostic functions in the Power BI Service platform ensuring a health environment and smooth operation.
• Monitors Power BI Service and Power BI Gateway performance using audit log data, and analyses usage data and trends to derive appropriate courses of action to ensure the system is performing optimally.
• Power BI Premium/embedded Capacity Utilization Monitoring.
• Power BI data model security design and performance tuning.

Additional Responsibilities

• Monitors, the users in the Power BI environment to ensure they are following recommended best practices and policies; and provides feedback to the business community when deviations occur.
• Create Workspaces & Publish APPS.Install/Upgrade/Maintain PBI Gateway Servers.
• Create /update Gateway connections.
• Audit and perform Capacity maintenance & ensure compliance with platform.

Experience

• 2 - 5 years of experience in a similar role.
• In providing System support for Power BI.
• Experience configuring data gateways for access to multiple data sources across the enterprise.
• Experience delivering services and solutions using Click View, Cognos, Power Platform suite with Azure Integrations.
• Must be able to provide technical expertise on data storage structures, data mining, and data cleansing.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degree in Information Technology or National Diploma