Own the enterprise Power BI adoption roadmap, driving measurable usage and business value. Build stakeholder engagement, champion networks, training programs, governance standards, semantic models, certified datasets, workspace controls, and reporting design principles. Develop and optimize flagship dashboards, troubleshoot performance, establish deployment and security practices, and reduce duplicated or ungoverned reporting. The role combines deep Power BI technical expertise with enterprise change leadership and hands-on enablement.
Power BI Adoption Lead
Most Power BI roles ask you to build what someone else has
already specified. This one asks you to decide how an entire enterprise uses
Power BI — and then to make it happen.
A leading UK financial services organisation is standing up
a modern cloud data platform, with Power BI as the strategic reporting layer on
top of it. The governed semantic layer, certified datasets, enterprise design
standards and community of practice are still being shaped — and the
organisation is serious enough about data capability to have already invested
in it. You will decide what good looks like, and own it end to end.
This is deliberately not a pure Power BI developer role, and
equally not a change-management role. It is the rarer combination: someone who
can build a performant enterprise semantic model, credibly challenge a
developer's DAX, then stand in front of the business and teach it.
What you'll do
- Own the enterprise Power BI adoption roadmap, with
measurable adoption and value targets.
- Build engagement from the ground up: stakeholder buy-in, a
champions network, forums, clinics and a genuine community of practice.
- Design and personally deliver structured training —
workshops, learning materials and guidance, pitched from Excel-refugee to
seasoned analyst.
- Shape the governed semantic layer alongside data
engineering: consistent KPI definitions, certification processes, naming
conventions and refresh strategy.
- Author the enterprise reporting Design Guide — standards,
templates, palettes, UX conventions — and hold the organisation to it.
- Establish workspace governance: deployment pipelines,
Dev/QA/Prod design, RLS/CLS, sensitivity labelling and auditability.
- Build and optimise flagship dashboards yourself, and
troubleshoot performance where others are stuck.
- Reduce duplicated, ungoverned reporting — and prove you
have.
Requirements
Essential experience
- Power BI technical depth — you have personally delivered
enterprise-scale Power BI. Advanced DAX, Power Query/M, semantic model design
and optimisation, large and complex datasets, workspace strategy and
administration, RLS, certified datasets. You can coach on all of it and push back
on poor implementation.
- Adoption & change leadership — you have created an
enterprise adoption roadmap, run champion networks, driven cultural change
around data-driven decision making, and measured adoption and business value.
This is the most critical dimension of the role.
- Training & enablement — you have designed and personally
delivered structured training programmes and built the materials yourself.
Occasional knowledge-sharing is not what we mean.
- Governance & operating model — reporting standards,
dashboard design principles, workspace management, certified dataset processes
and self-service controls. You know how to scale Power BI without creating a
governance problem.
Desirable
- Microsoft Fabric — architecture, capacity and
medallion/lakehouse patter
- Power Apps, ideally integrated with Power
BI.
- Sensitive, confidential or regulated data; Azure exposure;
PL-300 and/or
Interview process
Shortlisted candidates will prepare a maximum of two
PowerPoint slides on their approach to enterprise Power BI adoption, and demo a
Power BI dashboard they personally designed and built on a dataset of their
choice — covering the business problem, auorytelling, accessibility and how
they would drive ongoing usage. Format and style are entirely your own.
To apply: send a CV or get in touch for a confidential
conversation to [email protected].
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