Position

Title: Contract BI Architect
Duration: 4–8 weeks (short-term engagement). Potential for 90 days after initial engagement
Level of Effort: Full Time

Business Need

The Illuminate Analytics platform (Power BI / Microsoft Fabric) is experiencing significant performance degradation impacting both internal and external users. External clients have reported dashboards failing to load during live sessions and slow report performance, directly affecting customer experience and operations.

Problem Statement

Performance issues are driven by multiple factors, including capacity constraints, high concurrency, complex dashboards, and potential bottlenecks across data and API layers. Additionally, there is a gap in specialized Power BI and Microsoft Fabric performance expertise required to diagnose and resolve these issues efficiently.

Justification for Contractor

A contract BI Architect is required to provide specialized expertise, accelerate root cause analysis, conduct an independent architectural review, and deliver targeted optimization recommendations. The contractor will also provide knowledge transfer to internal teams.

Expected Outcomes

• Stabilized platform performance and reduced load times
  • Improved customer experience and reduced escalations
  • Identification of root causes across all architectural layers
  • Optimized data models, queries, and capacity utilization
  • Defined performance and scaling strategy for long-term sustainability

• Risk of Inaction

  Failure to address these issues may result in continued customer dissatisfaction, reputational risk, increased operational burden, and instability in a strategic enterprise analytics platform.

  Summary

  Engaging a short-term BI Architect contractor is a necessary and time-sensitive investment to stabilize the platform, restore performance, and ensure long-term scalability and reliability of the analytics environment.

Education & Experience

-Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Business, or related fields.
- 7–10 years of experience in data architecture, governance, and MDM.
- Proven track record in delivering enterprise data strategies and governance programs.

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by an employee assigned to this position. The description is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and abilities, and working conditions associated with this position. All requirements are subject to possible modification and reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.