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