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Amaris Consulting

Power BI/Fabric Administrator

Cape Town
Permanent Job, Apprenticeship
English

Job description

Join Amaris Consulting as a Power BI / Fabric Administrator and contribute to the reliability, performance, and governance of enterprise BI platforms within the Information System & Digital scope. In this role, you will support Power BI Service and Microsoft Fabric environments, ensuring smooth platform operations, secure access management, efficient capacity usage, and effective troubleshooting across business, infrastructure, networking, database, and security teams.

Your missions

  • Administer Power BI Service workspaces, apps, permissions, semantic models, dataflows, refreshes, connections, tenant concepts, and security groups.
  • Manage Microsoft Fabric environments, including capacities, workspaces, Lakehouse, notebooks, pipelines, semantic models, OneLake, and Fabric item lifecycle.
  • Investigate Power BI and Fabric capacity spikes, throttling, refresh load, interactive load, and problematic workloads using the Capacity Metrics App.
  • Configure and troubleshoot on-premises data gateway clusters, connections, data sources, credentials, service accounts, driver dependencies, and refresh failures.
  • Diagnose Power BI incidents related to semantic model refreshes, dataflows, gateways, permissions, deployments, and platform performance.
  • Support controlled DEV/UAT/PROD release processes through Git, GitHub, Power BI/Fabric Git integration, and deployment pipelines.
  • Automate repetitive administration activities using PowerShell, scripting, REST APIs, and Fabric APIs.
  • Document incident findings, separate platform issues from infrastructure or source-system issues, and coordinate escalations with the relevant technical teams.

Your profile

  • 5+ years of experience working with Power BI in an enterprise environment, including at least 2 years in Power BI Service administration, platform support, or production operations.
  • Experience with production Power BI incidents, workspace and access administration, gateway and connection issues, semantic model and dataflow refresh failures, capacity investigations, and release processes.
  • Strong knowledge of Power BI Service administration, including workspaces, apps, permissions, semantic models, dataflows, refreshes, connections, tenant concepts, security groups, and troubleshooting.
  • Practical knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, including capacities, workspaces, Lakehouse, notebooks, pipelines, semantic models, OneLake, and Fabric item lifecycle.
  • Experience with Power BI/Fabric capacity management, on-premises data gateways, connectivity troubleshooting, DNS, ports, firewalls, proxies, ODBC drivers, connection strings, Windows VMs, and basic PowerShell diagnostics.
  • Knowledge of Git, GitHub, repositories, branches, commits, pull requests, merge and review processes, Power BI/Fabric Git integration, and deployment pipelines.
  • Knowledge of PowerShell, scripting, Power BI REST APIs, Fabric APIs, authentication concepts, and administrative automation.
  • Knowledge of security and access management principles, including Entra ID security groups, workspace roles, app and report access, RLS, and least-privilege principles.
  • Strong analytical mindset, ownership, documentation skills, and ability to explain technical issues clearly to business and report owners while working effectively with infrastructure, networking, database, and security teams.

What we offer

  • An international community bringing together 110+ different nationalities.
  • An environment where trust has a central place: 70% of our key leaders started their careers at the first level of responsibilities.
  • A robust training system with our internal Academy and 250+ available modules.
  • A vibrant workplace that frequently gathers for internal events, including afterworks and team buildings.
  • At Mantu, sustainability is part of everything we do. You’ll have the opportunity to turn your ideas into action and make a tangible impact. Every day, our teams bring our ESG commitments to life, from reducing our footprint to driving positive change within our communities. Through our WeCare Together program, you’ll be empowered to design and lead projects that create real social or environmental impact, with the company’s full support.
Amaris Consulting is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace. We are committed to promoting diversity within the workforce and creating an inclusive working environment. For this purpose, we welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, beliefs, age, marital status, disability, or other characteristics.
 
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Who are we?

Amaris Consulting, part of Mantu is an independent technology consulting firm providing guidance and solutions to businesses. With more than 1,000 clients across the globe, we have been rolling out solutions in major projects for over a decade – this is made possible by an international team of 7,600 people spread across 5 continents and more than 60 countries. Our solutions focus on four different Business Lines: Information System & Digital, Telecom, Life Sciences and Engineering. We’re focused on building and nurturing a top talent community where all our team members can achieve their full potential. Amaris is your steppingstone to cross rivers of change, meet challenges and achieve all your projects with success.

At Amaris, we strive to provide our candidates with the best possible recruitment experience. We like to get to know our candidates, challenge them, and be able to give them proper feedback as quickly as possible. Here's what our recruitment process looks like:   

Brief Call: Our process typically begins with a brief virtual/phone conversation to get to know you! The objective? Learn about you, understand your motivations, and make sure we have the right job for you! 

Interviews (the average number of interviews is 3 - the number may vary depending on the level of seniority required for the position). During the interviews, you will meet people from our team: your line manager of course, but also other people related to your future role. We will talk in depth about you, your experience, and skills, but also about the position and what will be expected of you. Of course, you will also get to know Amaris: our culture, our roots, our teams, and your career opportunities!

Case study: Depending on the position, we may ask you to take a test. This could be a role play, a technical assessment, a problem-solving scenario, etc.   

As you know, every person is different and so is every role in a company.  That is why we have to adapt accordingly, and the process may differ slightly at times. However, please know that we always put ourselves in the candidate's shoes to ensure they have the best possible experience. 
We look forward to meeting you!

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