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Lead BI Engineer
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Lead BI Engineer
Engagement: Full Time, Permanent
Location: London - Hybrid
Working hours: 0845 - 1730
Salary: Negotiable DOE
About the Role
Lead BI Engineer responsible for cross-project platform architecture, governance and technical oversight. Operates as a senior technical authority across BI platform engineering, ensuring scalability, security, cost-efficiency and reliability. Drives consistency, reusable patterns and best-practice engineering across multiple teams and engagements.
What You'll Do
- Lead the design of complex BI platform architecture, including capacity strategy, environment topology, security model and CI/CD approach
- Own cross-project platform governance, ensuring consistency of security, capacity and deployment standards across teams
- Influence platform and infrastructure decisions across BI, Data Engineering and Architecture teams
- Operate across multiple projects, providing senior platform oversight and acting as an escalation point for complex capacity, security or reliability issues
- Define reusable platform engineering patterns (infrastructure-as-code, deployment pipelines, monitoring frameworks)
- Identify and resolve cross-workstream platform risks, dependencies and cost inefficiencies
- Shape delivery approaches in partnership with BI Developers, BI Analysts, Data Engineers and Architects
- Support stakeholder alignment across business and technical teams on platform capability, capacity and security decisions
- Mentor and guide BI Engineers across teams, improving platform engineering quality and capability
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What You'll Bring
- Deep expertise designing and operating large-scale BI/analytics platforms (Fabric, Power BI, Databricks, Synapse)
- Strong knowledge of capacity planning, cost optimisation and scaling strategies
- Expert understanding of platform security, governance and compliance controls
- Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices for BI environments
- Ability to diagnose and resolve complex platform engineering problems across systems and teams
- Strong communication and stakeholder-influence skills, able to guide senior decision-makers
- Leadership through influence, driving consistency and best practice across multiple teams
- Confident communicator able to represent Acora’s platform standards in client environments
- Operates effectively across multiple projects and ambiguous environments
- Strong ownership mindset with high accountability
- Structured problem-solver with commercial awareness
- Demonstrates leadership through expertise rather than formal authority
What We Offer
- 25 days leave + bank holidays
- Your birthday off
- Enhanced parental leave
- Company Pension
- Private medical
- Gym membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee assistance programme
- Endless learning opportunities
Who Are We
Acora are a progressive full-stack full-service business technology services partner, built for the AI era. Combining the capabilities of a Managed Service Provider (MSP), Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP), IT Consulting, Professional Services and Development company, Acora helps customers achieve breakthrough results - often quicker and at lower risk than they thought possible.
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Our Values
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#2 We do what we say
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Interested in becoming an Acoran? Check out the link to our website to read more about us - Acora.com
To be considered for this position, you must have full rights to work in the UK.
Equal Opportunities at Acora Group
Acora Group are an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal opportunities regardless of race or ethnic origin, gender identity, family situation, sexual orientation, disability, religion or age. We hire our people based on qualifications, merit, skills, and business need.
We are a Level 1 Disability Confident Committed Employer and will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request any reasonable adjustments.
Join us at Acora in creating a workplace where everyone can succeed and make an impact. We look forward to welcoming you to our team!
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