BI Operations Transition Lead – Power BI Data Platforms
Job Summary
Job Summary: The Senior Consultant BI Transition to Maintenance Enablement is a strategic advisory role responsible for working with senior business and technology leaders to define align and embed repeatable processes that enable the smooth transition of Power BI reporting solutions from project delivery into steady state maintenance. The role designs the transition framework facilitates cross functional agreement and ensures adoption across delivery platform and support organizations.
Core Skills:
Project Management
Role Description:
Stakeholder Engagement Alignment: Engage with senior leaders across Business Data IT and Operations to understand current transition pain points and risks and to align on expectations for BAU readiness and ownership.
Facilitate workshops and working sessions to drive shared understanding and decision making between product owners delivery leads and platform and support teams
Act as a neutral advisor balancing business priorities with operational sustainability.
Transition to Maintenance (TTM) Framework Design.
Define a pragmatic scalable TTM framework for Power BI solutions including: entry and exit criteria for transition standard stabilization period approach and clear ownership boundaries post handover.
Design standard deliverables required for transition such as: Architecture and data lineage artefacts report and dataset inventories and support runbooks and KT checklists.
Ensure the framework is adaptable to: Agile and waterfall delivery models centralized vs federated BI teams and in-house and vendor managed support models.
Governance Decision Model Enablement: Work with leadership to define governance guardrails including what constitutes production ready Power BI assets who signs off on operational readiness and criteria for accepting or rejecting handover.
Establish forums and decision cadence (e.g. readiness reviews acceptance checkpoints).
Process Institutionalization.
Embed the transition model into: SDLC delivery playbooks Release and change management processes project SOWs.
Enable adoption through: Playbooks templates and quick reference guides and targeted enablement sessions for delivery and support teams.
Partner with other application leaders to ensure processes are operationally executable.
Required Skills:
Job Summary: The Senior Consultant BI Transition to Maintenance Enablement is a strategic advisory role responsible for working with senior business and technology leaders to define align and embed repeatable processes that enable the smooth transition of Power BI reporting solutions from project delivery into steady state maintenance. The role designs the transition framework facilitates cross functional agreement and ensures adoption across delivery platform and support organizations. Core Skills: Project Management Role Description: Stakeholder Engagement Alignment: Engage with senior leaders across Business Data IT and Operations to understand current transition pain points and risks and to align on expectations for BAU readiness and ownership. Facilitate workshops and working sessions to drive shared understanding and decision making between product owners delivery leads and platform and support teams Act as a neutral advisor balancing business priorities with operational sustainability. Transition to Maintenance (TTM) Framework Design. Define a pragmatic scalable TTM framework for Power BI solutions including: entry and exit criteria for transition standard stabilization period approach and clear ownership boundaries post handover. Design standard deliverables required for transition such as: Architecture and data lineage artefacts report and dataset inventories and support runbooks and KT checklists. Ensure the framework is adaptable to: Agile and waterfall delivery models centralized vs federated BI teams and in-house and vendor managed support models. Governance Decision Model Enablement: Work with leadership to define governance guardrails including what constitutes production ready Power BI assets who signs off on operational readiness and criteria for accepting or rejecting handover. Establish forums and decision cadence (e.g. readiness reviews acceptance checkpoints). Process Institutionalization. Embed the transition model into: SDLC delivery playbooks Release and change management processes project SOWs. Enable adoption through: Playbooks templates and quick reference guides and targeted enablement sessions for delivery and support teams. Partner with other application leaders to ensure processes are operationally executable.
Required Education:
Bachelors Degree