Senior Fabric Administrator

The Senior Fabric Administrator provides expert-level platform administration, implementation and operational support for Microsoft Fabric across EBRD's Data & Analytics landscape. Operating as a partner-supplied specialist, they ensure the Fabric platform remains stable, secure, scalable and fully aligned with EBRD engineering and governance standards.

Section 3 Background

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) exists to foster economic growth, inclusivity and sustainability across its regions of operation. With a mission to create opportunities, empower communities and drive innovation, EBRD stands at the forefront of sustainable development, supporting projects that have real and lasting impact.

Technology and engineering play a pivotal role in enabling the Bank to deliver on its ambitious mission. EBRD's engineering teams are instrumental in crafting modern, scalable and innovative solutions that empower our people, streamline our operations and drive continuous value for the communities we serve.

Operating in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, we adopt agile principles to work collaboratively, foster experimentation and enable adaptability in the face of change. With a commitment to empowerment and continuous improvement, the engineering teams ensure that every solution aligns with the Bank's values and strategic objectives.

The Fabric Administrator will contribute to the delivery of mission and technology strategy through contributing to the delivery, maintenance and improvement of the specialist technologies they are responsible for.

Section 4 Facts / Scale

• Supports the delivery and maintenance of systems to one or more specific business units, involving operational support, supporting development of small or medium sized feature requests for users or other IT teams.
• Works as part of a multi-disciplinary squad with staff, partners and contractors.

Section 5 Accountabilities and Responsibilities

Responsibility

Description

Simplify to amplify

As an experienced platform administrator, the Senior Support Administrator reduces complexity across Microsoft Fabric by improving workspace organisation, tightening capacity governance and removing unnecessary operational overhead. They focus on stable, predictable operations and ensure the platform remains easy to support, maintain and scale.

Act decisively, commit fully

Makes confident, timely decisions when handling Fabric incidents, performance issues, capacity adjustments and environment optimisation. They take ownership of operational outcomes, using data and risk awareness to maintain platform resilience, compliance and continuity during day to day support and major incidents.

Listen well and speak up

Engages closely with support teams, business users and governance groups to understand issues, pain points and operational needs. They raise concerns early, highlight risks and challenge decisions that may affect Fabric stability, performance or security, ensuring the platform remains robust and well governed.

Collaborate smartly

Works alongside Integration, Analytics, Data Engineering, Governance and Security teams to maintain a dependable Fabric operating model. They function as a senior technical partner during incidents, provide expert troubleshooting guidance, support design discussions with practical operational insight and help teams adopt Fabric best practices.

Engineering Excellence

Demonstrates strong hands on administration and operational engineering skills across Fabric. They uphold platform standards, enhance monitoring and reliability practices and support junior colleagues. They embed secure, cost aware and performance focused principles into all platform management activities, ensuring consistent and predictable service quality.

Agile Ways of Working

Applies agile thinking to deliver incremental improvements in capacity management, workload optimisation, automation, monitoring and governance. They work iteratively, validate enhancements through testing and use data to refine the support backlog so the platform evolves in line with business needs.

Managing cost and budget

Uses deep knowledge of Fabric capacities and consumption patterns to proactively manage cost drivers across compute, storage, concurrency and workload usage. They leverage Fabric Admin APIs, Power BI Admin insights and Azure cost tools to forecast usage, prevent overspend and recommend practical capacity or licensing adjustments.

Quality at our core

Ensures all operational changes - capacity updates, workspace adjustments, DR processes, monitoring improvements or optimisation tasks - meet high standards of quality, performance and compliance. They take responsibility for reliable platform operation and continuously refine support processes and guardrails.

Secure First

Maintains strong security across Fabric by enforcing RBAC, supporting Purview lineage and classification policies, securing pipelines and ensuring audit ready controls. They proactively identify vulnerabilities, apply hardening practices and champion secure operations throughout the support lifecycle.

Drives User Experience

Improves user experience by ensuring Fabric is performant, reliable and governed effectively. They provide guidance on workspace setup, semantic model optimisation and operational best practices, helping analysts, engineers and business users work efficiently while staying aligned with enterprise governance and security standards.

Specialism

Description (Accountabilities and Responsibilities)

Platform Management & Support

• Manages the enterprise wide setup, configuration and ongoing administration of Microsoft Fabric capacities, domains, workspaces and OneLake environments to ensure stable and reliable platform operations.
• Supports the development of platform architecture, tenancy models and governance standards by providing operational insight, feasibility checks and best practice guidance for scalable and secure Fabric usage.
• Oversees and maintains complex Fabric workloads in production, including Lakehouses, Dataflows Gen2, Fabric Pipelines, Synapse experiences, Real Time Analytics and enterprise semantic models, ensuring they run efficiently and consistently.
• Owns platform monitoring and observability, operating telemetry pipelines built on Fabric Admin APIs, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor and governance dashboards to detect incidents early, track performance and optimise capacity utilisation.
• Leads incident response for Fabric, coordinating triage, root cause analysis and recovery actions while driving long term stability improvements and preventing repeat issues.
• Implements and maintains DR/HA configurations, environment topologies and resilience practices to protect regulated and business critical workloads and ensure continuity during failures or outages.
• Enforces enterprise security, audit, GDPR (where applicable) and compliance requirements through RBAC management, Purview governance integration, data classification and operational controls across all Fabric environments.
• Optimises platform performance by tuning capacity behaviour, ingestion throughput, concurrency, storage patterns and workload scheduling to meet SLAs and manage cost efficiency.
• Acts as the primary subject matter expert and escalation point for Fabric platform issues, collaborating with Microsoft engineering, internal platform teams, architecture groups and domain SMEs to support adoption, align roadmaps and mature the platform.

Section 6 Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Qualifications

Specialism

Description

Fabric Platform Management and Support

Implement, operate and administer Microsoft Fabric environments across enterprise Data & Analytics functions, ensuring secure, resilient and efficient platform operation. Provide end to end support for Fabric workloads including Lakehouse, Warehouse, Pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, Notebooks and Power BI integrations. Maintain platform governance, compliance alignment, workspace architecture and operational excellence across OneLake and Fabric capacities.

Experience and Qualifications:

Senior Principal Level Profile

• 7 10+ years of experience supporting enterprise Data & Analytics platforms within financial services, ideally investment banking.
• 2 4+ years of hands on Microsoft Fabric implementation and administration, including workspace architecture, OneLake governance, capacity optimisation and operational monitoring.
• Deep expertise across Fabric workloads: Lakehouse/Warehouse operations, Data Pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, Notebooks, Spark optimization, semantic model deployment and Power BI integration.
• Experience administering Azure platform services underpinning enterprise data ecosystems, such as Azure Storage, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, Azure Key Vault, Azure Networking and Azure AD governance.
• Demonstrated leadership in platform operations, incident response, reliability engineering and governance across hybrid cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of data flows supporting Treasury, Risk, Finance and Compliance functions.
• Proven ability to design and embed monitoring frameworks using Fabric admin metrics, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor and OneLake activity logs.
• Experience driving automation, improving operational maturity and embedding continuous improvement across data platform support teams.
• Skilled in security and compliance controls including Purview governance, AAD/RBAC, sensitivity labels, secure data sharing and audit readiness.
• Experience collaborating with Audit, Risk and Infrastructure teams to ensure control alignment and regulatory compliance (e.g., BCBS 239, GDPR).
• Ability to mentor junior colleagues and influence platform safety, performance and cost efficiency.

Technical Skills

• Microsoft Fabric:

• Workspace administration, governance enforcement, capacity management, operational monitoring and OneLake lifecycle management.
• Lakehouse/Warehouse operations, Spark optimisation, semantic model deployment and integration with Power BI, including building data pipelines using Dataflows Gen2, Lakehouse and Pipelines and enabling reporting through Power BI, Fabric Warehouses and OneLake.

• Microsoft Azure:

• Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Microsoft Entra ID / RBAC administration, Conditional Access, identity governance and privileged access controls, including applying data security through Microsoft Entra ID and workspace roles.
• Azure Storage, networking fundamentals, Key Vault, managed identities, encryption and secure connectivity patterns.
• Azure Cost Management and optimisation across compute, storage and data services.
• Purview governance, data classification, lineage and policy enforcement across Azure and Fabric estates.

• Orchestration & ETL: Azure Data Factory, Informatica IDMC/PowerCenter, Control M, Conductor.
• Analytics: Power BI, Tableau, Cognos (advantage).
• Service Management: ServiceNow, Jira, Azure DevOps and ITIL, including management of Dev/Test/Prod environments and CI/CD delivery using Azure DevOps and Git.
• Stakeholder delivery: Collaboration with stakeholders to shape and deliver MVPs, gather feedback and iteratively refine data models so they meet business and reporting requirements.

Qualifications

• Preferred certifications: Azure Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator, Azure Data Engineer Associate, Microsoft Fabric Administrator/Engineer (when available), Informatica certifications, ITIL.
• Postgraduate degree desirable (e.g., MSc Data Engineering, MBA).
• Excellent communication, analytical and problem solving abilities.
• Fabric specific certifications (e.g., DP 700 or equivalent) advantageous.
• Exposure to AI/ML enablement within analytics platforms beneficial.
• Experience working in multi-vendor delivery environments and large-scale transformation programmes.

Section 7 Challenges

The main challenge for this role will be to contribute and stay abreast with the skills and competency of Engineering Excellence to the maintenance, delivery and improvement of EBRD D&A systems in an ever-changing technology landscape.

Main BU:

AIA

FTE/CWR

FTE

Skill Name

Senior Fabric Administrator

Location

PAN India

Expected Notice Period

IMM/30days

Experience

10 to 14 years Level M/ SM

No of position to Fulfil

3

Budget (if)