MS Fabric Platform Administrator

BCTG’s direct client is in need of an Offshore MS Fabric Platform Administrator

Responsibilities include:

Platform Governance

• Manage and optimize Fabric capacities, including allocation, monitoring, and scaling.
• Establish and enforce governance standards for workspace creation, naming conventions, lifecycle management, and access control.
• Oversee OneLake storage governance, including data organization, retention, and optimization.
• Maintain policies for data classification, sensitivity labels, and compliance.
• Manage the publication of Reports & Datasets which follow the governance standards.

Security and Access Management

• Administer user roles, permissions, and group memberships across Fabric workspaces and items.
• Implement and maintain security best practices such as row-level security, data masking, and secure data sharing.
• Review and audit user activity logs to ensure secure and compliant usage.

Operational Management

• Monitor platform health, including refresh schedules, pipeline performance, and workload utilization.
• Support and troubleshoot issues across Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Engineering, RealTime Analytics, and Power BI workloads.
• Manage data gateway configurations and external data connections.
• Optimize compute and storage usage to ensure cost-effective performance.

User Enablement and Support

• Provide guidance and best practices to workspace admins, data engineers, and report creators.
• Support onboarding of new teams and projects into Fabric.
• Develop and maintain documentation, standards, and training materials.
• Assist with reviewing and approving workspace, capacity, and permission requests