Power BI Architect-67189
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 3, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 17, 2026. Hitachi scores A on the Alion truth index.
Function
Cloud & Data EngineeringOur Company
We’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world’s potential. We’re people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what’s now to what’s next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.
Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement - your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.
Job description
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Masters in PowerBI, Finance Solution Data Architect with deep expertise in Supply Chain data and its intersection with Finance (Procure-to-Pay, Inventory Accounting, Costing, CapEx/OpEx, Vendor Spend Analytics).
- The architect will lead the design of scalable data solutions that unify supply chain and finance data across ERP, procurement, logistics, inventory, and billing systems-enabling accurate reporting, forecasting, compliance, and operational insights. Data Architecture & Solution Design
- Own end-to-end data architecture for finance + supply chain analytics, reporting, and operational use-cases.
- Define target-state architecture (lake house/warehouse, streaming, APIs, metadata) aligned to enterprise standards.
- Design robust data ingestion and integration patterns (batch/stream, CDC, API-based, file-based).
- Ensure architecture supports auditability, reconciliation, and financial controls (traceability from source to report).
Supply Chain + Finance Domain Alignment
- Architect domain-aligned datasets for:
- Procure-to-Pay (P2P): requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, payments
- Inventory & Warehousing: receipts, transfers, adjustments, stock valuation
- Costing: standard/actual costing, landed cost, freight, BOM where relevant
- Vendor & Spend: vendor master, contracts, pricing, spend categorization
- Logistics: shipment tracking, carrier costs, delivery performance
- Enable integration between supply chain events and finance outcomes (e.g., GR/IR, accruals, capitalization, write-offs). Data Modeling & Semantics
- Create and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models (3NF, dimensional, Data Vault as applicable).
- Define canonical models and enterprise semantic layers for KPI consistency.
- Establish best practices for:
- Master data (vendors, materials/items, locations, cost centers)
- Reference data (currency, UOM, fiscal calendar, shipping terms)
- Hierarchies (product, supplier, org, region)
Platform & Engineering Collaboration
- Partner with data engineering teams to implement:
- ETL/ELT pipelines, orchestration, CI/CD, environment management
- Performance tuning, partitioning, indexing, clustering strategies
- Observability (logging, monitoring, SLA/SLI, cost optimization)
- Enable governed self-service analytics through reusable datasets and thin-report architecture.
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:
- 10+ years in data/solution architecture with strong ownership of enterprise-scale implementations.
- Strong experience designing data warehouses/lake houses, enterprise integration, and analytics platforms.
- Strong in data modeling (dimensional + normalized) and semantic layer design.
- Strong understanding of business processes and data: Commercial operations , Logistics: shipment tracking, carrier costs, delivery performance procurement, inventory, logistics, supplier management, costing
- Cloud & Data Tech Stack (choose based on your environment)
- Cloud: Azure
- Data platforms: Fabric / Synapse
- Data integration: Informatica / ADF / Fivetran / dbt / Airflow (any relevant)
- Storage & formats: Parquet/Delta/Iceberg; S3/ADLS/GCS
- Querying: advanced SQL; performance tuning; data partition strategies
- Data governance: Collibra / Purview / Alation (or equivalent)
- BI/Analytics: Power BI (data modeling, DAX, performance tuning, semantic layer design, governance, deployment pipelines)
- This role requires strong data architecture, data modeling, integration design, governance, and hands-on experience with modern cloud data platforms and analytics.
- Design semantic models in Power BI for enterprise-wide reuse, ensuring consistent KPI definitions.
- Hands-on experience in DAX optimization, performance tuning, composite models, and security (RLS/OLS).
- Implement workspace architecture, deployment pipelines, and governance best practices in Power BI.
- Experience with real-time analytics, event streams, and near real-time dashboards for operational insights. Generic Managerial Skills, If any
- Stakeholder Management & Delivery
- Engage Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, and IT stakeholders to translate needs into architecture.
- Lead architecture reviews, technical documentation, and implementation roadmaps.
- Work with program/product managers to define scope, milestones, dependencies, and risk mitigation
- Education
- Bachelor of Engineering/Computers
About us
We’re a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.
Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
How we look after you
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.