Technology & Transformation
Permanent
Auckland
Posted 30/03/2026

Technical Business Intelligence Lead

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About the Opportunity
We’re seeking a hands-on Technical Business Intelligence Lead to uplift BI engineering standards across modelling, semantic layers, and delivery pipelines. This is a technical leadership role (no people management) focused on building a robust, scalable Power BI environment and mentoring a small BI team.

This opportunity offers real scope to influence architecture, introduce best practice, and support a move toward a modern BI platform, including Microsoft Fabric.

What You’ll Bring
  • Strong SQL and dimensional modelling (Kimball-style) 
  • Proven Power BI dataset and semantic modelling expertise 
  • Experience improving pipelines, environments, and BI governance 
  • Experience working closely with data engineering teams 
  • Ability to mentor and provide technical leadership 
  • Clear communication and practical technical leadership 
  • Exposure to Microsoft Fabric (nice to have)
You’ll lead dimensional modelling and semantic model best practice using SQL and Power BI, improve Dev/UAT/Prod release maturity and deployment reliability, introduce automated testing and quality controls, partner closely with data engineering to guide technical decisions, provide code reviews and mentoring, uplift BI architecture and governance, prioritise the technical backlog, and support the roadmap toward Microsoft Fabric.

What’s on Offer
  • Technical leadership role without people management 
  • Opportunity to shape BI architecture and best practice 
  • Modern data environment with Fabric roadmap 
  • Hybrid working (3 days office / 2 flexible) 
  • Central Auckland CBD location 
  • Collaborative, supportive team 
Next Steps? 

To keep things simple, we ask that all applications are submitted through this advert. We’ll review applications as they come in and be in touch.

For any questions give Teresa Jordan a call on 027 376 4884 and quote Job ID: 17555 for a confidential chat.

To apply for this vacancy, you MUST be a New Zealand citizen, resident, or have already secured the right to work in New Zealand and therefore hold a valid visa.

At the appropriate stage we will request your references, we ask that you do not include them on your CV when applying.  

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