PowerBI Specialist

Position: Power BI / Microsoft Fabric Specialist

We are looking for a Senior Power BI and Microsoft Fabric specialistwith strong endtoend analytics and dataplatform experience. This is not a reportdeveloper role; it requires someone who is comfortable operating across data engineering semantic modelling and executivelevel analytics.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Matric/Grade 12 Certificate.
• Microsoft Power BI certification.
• 3-5 years experienceas a BI Analyst BI Developer Data Analyst SQL Developer Insights Analyst or similar.
• Must have advanced expertise in Power BI including DAX semantic model design performance optimisation security (RLS/OLS) and deployment pipelines.
• Be highly proficient in Microsoft Fabric.
• Handson experience building solutions using Lakehouses Warehouses OneLake Pipelines Dataflows Gen2 and Notebooksis essential along with a solid understanding of Direct Lake DirectQuery and Importconnectivity.
• A numerate degree Mathematics Statistics Computer Science Data Science Informatics Information Systems Data Engineering Operations Research or similar.
• Strong analytical thinking attention to detail and the ability to work through ambiguous problems.
• Comfortable working independently and as part of a team with good written and verbal English.
• Exposure to Microsoft Fabric.
• DAX experience and Power BI data modelling beyond drag-and-drop visuals.
• Clear Criminal record.
• Valid Drivers license and own reliable transport.
• Should reside in the Gauteng area.

Key Performance areas (Not totally inclusive):

• Must have strong lakehouse and modern dataplatform knowledge including Delta tables Bronze/Silver/Gold patterns ELT design schema evolution and analytics built directly on lake storage.
• The role also requires dataengineering capability including SQL Spark / PySpark API and Azure SQL integrations and data quality controls.
• A key requirement is a solid understanding of how databases and query engines work including modern datamodelling concepts keys and relationships indexing and partitioning strategies and how performance is affected across SQL DAX Spark SQL and Fabric execution engines.
• Beyond technical skills the role requires strong business and communication skillsthe ability to translate requirements into scalable analytical models define KPIs optimise cost and performance and deliver executiveready insightswithin a governed Azure/Fabric environment.
• Experience with Azure data governance security best practices and capacity management is expected.
• Microsoft Fabric certification (DP600)is a strong advantage.

We reserve the right not to make an appointment to any advertised position. Whilst preference is always given to existing employees and the choice made is purely on merit Historically Disadvantaged Candidates and Black Female Candidates are encouraged and supported in the FSG team. Whilst black female candidates will be given priority as per our transformation policy subject to the above criteria.

Fidelity Services Group (Pty) Ltd supports global fair practice and business ethics on continuous development of our human capital as the key resource to our success in the markets in which we participate.

Should you not be contacted regarding this position within 10 working days from the closing date please regard your application as unsuccessful.