Principal Software Engineer (Power BI Admin)

The successful candidate will act as the primary technical point of contact for BI platform stability, user support, troubleshooting, platform security implementation, and operational excellence.

About Eurofins

Reliable platform owner with strong technical troubleshooting capabilities, operational discipline, customer-service mindset, attention to detail, and proven experience maintaining enterprise-scale BI platforms.

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable.

From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services.

It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 62,000 staff across a network of more than 1000 independent companies in over 62 countries and operating more than 900 laboratories.

Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.

In 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6.515 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Responsibilities

• Job Title: Power BI / Microsoft Fabric Technical Administrator & Support Engineer, Work Timing: 12PM – 9PM Work Location: Bangalore Work mode: Hybrid mode(3 days office) SUMMARY OF POSITION AND OBJECTIVES: Power BI / Microsoft Fabric Technical Administrator & Support Engineer is responsible for administration, maintenance, monitoring, support, and continuous improvement of the organization's Business Intelligence platform landscape.
• The role covers operational ownership of Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Azure Analysis Services (AAS), SQL environments, gateways, integrations, workspaces, deployment processes, monitoring, and platform governance.
• As part of the Group Finance IT BI organization, the position supports enterprise-scale reporting and analytics solutions used across multiple countries and business units while ensuring availability, performance, compliance, and supportability of the BI ecosystem.
• Platform Administration: Administer Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Analysis Services, gateways, capacities, workspaces, service principals, and supporting BI infrastructure.
• Provide L2/L3 support for BI platforms and reporting solutions.
• Investigate incidents, troubleshoot failures, coordinate issue resolution, and communicate with stakeholders.
• Implement and maintain proactive monitoring, alerting, health checks, usage analytics, and operational dashboards.
• Analyze and optimize Fabric capacities, Power BI datasets, semantic models, AAS environments, SQL databases, refresh processes, and report performance.
• Support deployments across development, test, and production environments, ensuring compliance with release and change management processes.
• Implement and maintain BI security configurations, workspace permissions, RBAC structures, service accounts, and access management processes.
• Define and maintain operational procedures supporting platform resilience and recovery.
• Ensure compliance with architectural standards, governance policies, naming conventions, and operational best practices.
• Maintain operational procedures, technical documentation, runbooks, support articles, and knowledge repositories.
• Drive automation, operational efficiency, platform standardization, and adoption of new Fabric capabilities.

Requirements

• Minimum 4-6 years of experience in BI platform administration, BI support, platform operations, or infrastructure-related roles.
• Microsoft Fabric Administration, Power BI Administration, Azure Analysis Services, SQL Server administration and performance tuning, Data Gateway configuration and maintenance.
• Strong understanding of platform monitoring, incident management, capacity planning, and operational support.
• Experience supporting enterprise reporting platforms in global environments.
• Good understanding of data integration, semantic models, and BI architecture.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Fluent English communication skills.

Preferred

• Experience with security management, RBAC models, tenant-level configuration, and audit monitoring.
• (PowerShell, REST APIs, CI/CD pipelines) is an advantage.

Benefits

• Collaborative, international environment working with cross-functional teams across IT and business domains.
• Temporary contract (2-3 years).
• B2B preferred, with flexibility for hybrid remote collaboration with international teams.
• Opportunities to enhance and gain practical and solid expertise in Microsoft BI ecosystem and participate in global projects.