Associate - PowerBI Platform Administrator

Company: Eli Lilly and Company
Location: Indianapolis
Posted on: February 6, 2026

Job Description:

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world. Come help us deliver cutting edge Analytics Platforms with the power of AI and automation! The Tech@Lilly team is actively looking for an experienced BI Platform Administrator. Are you passionate about designing highly available analytics platforms, driving automation, and establishing strong governance frameworks? Are you energized by leading enterprise-scale deployments and optimizing end-to-end BI performance? If so, bring YOUR technical expertise to Lilly—where your work helps accelerate scientific discovery, strengthen decision-making, and ultimately improve patient outcomes. What You’ll Be Doing: You will serve as an Analytics Platform Administrator for Lilly’s Power BI/Fabric platform—driving architecture decisions, ensuring platform reliability, and enabling secure and scalable analytics adoption across the organization. You will collaborate closely with infrastructure, database, cloud, and security teams to integrate platforms into a modern analytics ecosystem. You will also help drive platform optimization, automation, and operational excellence across global environments. How You’ll Succeed: Lead installation, upgrades, and large-scale deployments of Fabric/Power BI Report Server and Fabric/Power BI Service across Dev, QA, and Production environments. Design and maintain high-availability, clustered, and failover configurations to support enterprise BI workloads. Plan and execute patches, security updates, and version upgrades with minimal business disruption. Perform regular Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) that includes but not limited to certificate renewal, password rotations, security patching, qualify documents and SharePoint articles updates. Optimize Fabric/Power BI Gateway performance, Dataflow efficiency, and dataset refresh reliability. Define, implement, and enforce governance for workspaces, datasets, reports, permissions, and content lifecycle management. Perform regular audits and generate insights on usage, refresh schedules, performance, and capacity utilization. Develop automation scripts and DevOps pipelines using Fabric/Power BI REST APIs, PowerShell, and related tools to reduce manual administrative effort. Implement automated inventory management, monitoring, and usage tracking. Partner with infrastructure, network, database, cloud, and security teams to troubleshoot complex issues and improve platform stability. Support integrations across Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, and hybrid environments. Lead capacity planning, platform scaling, performance tuning, and resource optimization initiatives. Mentor junior administrators, establish SOPs, and drive standard methodologies for platform operations. Act as the enterprise SME for Fabric/Power BI architecture, governance, and upgrades—guiding stakeholders, assessing risks, and communicating platform strategy. What You Should Bring: Deep understanding of Fabric/Power BI architecture, including capacity management, HA/DR strategies, and system integration patterns. Proven ability to optimize dataset refresh, gateway performance, and BI workload distribution. Expertise using PowerShell, Fabric/Power BI REST API, and automation methods for large-scale administrative tasks. Advanced SQL skills for troubleshooting, data validation, and performance analysis. Experience managing enterprise identity, security models, and SSO integrations (AD, Azure AD). Familiarity with cloud ecosystems (Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks) and hybrid analytics deployments. Experience with version control (Git) and DevOps-style workflows. Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder engagement skills. Ability to translate business requirements into platform enhancements. Preferred experience administering BI tools such as Spotfire or SAP Business Objects. Advanced SQL capability and proficiency with PowerShell and Fabric/Power BI REST API. Strong documentation skills required to support Security and CSQA compliance. Basic Requirements: High School Diploma/GED with 5 plus years of experience administering Fabric/Power BI platforms. 5 Plus years of hands-on experience with Fabric/Power BI Service and Power BI Report Server administration. Demonstrated experience with upgrades, configuration, monitoring, and enterprise deployments. Experience supporting enterprise BI operations, migrations, and DR planning. Experience with ServiceNow or equivalent ticketing systems. Qualified applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Lilly will not provide support for or sponsor work authorization or visas for this role, including but not limited to F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, or L-1. Additional Information: Onsite role located in Indianapolis, Indiana (relocation required). Work Schedule: 11:30am – 8:30pm EST (Nov-Mar) 12:30pm – 9:30 pm EDT (Mar-Nov) Less than 5% travel Organization Overview Lilly IT builds and maintains capabilities using cutting edge technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Lilly IT is that we redefine what’s possible through tech to advance our purpose – creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver innovative solutions in every area of our business. The Global Information and Services Tech team is at the forefront of digitalization to enable and advance the entire company, with increased productivity and best-in-class Customer experiences. This team provides a robust and sustainable infrastructure of hardware, software and services that are critical to enable our global workforce and business to operate and transform. As leaders in technology and understanding business requirements and challenges, this team defines and leads the overall company technology strategy. Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form ( https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation ) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response. Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups. Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. The anticipated wage for this position is $64,500 - $184,800 Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees. WeAreLilly

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