Senior IT Analyst - Enterprise Information Management

Buckeye Partners•Houston, TX

About The Position

Buckeye Partners is currently seeking a Sr. IT Analyst, Enterprise Information Management with 5-10 years of hands-on Power BI experience — including data modeling, DAX, Power Query (M), and Power BI Service administration to join our growing team! The Sr. IT Analyst, Enterprise Information Management role will be directly involved in designing, building, and governing the enterprise reporting and analytics ecosystem, with primary ownership of the Power BI platform end-to-end — from data modeling and ETL/ELT pipelines through to report/dashboard delivery and platform administration. The role will be an evangelist for self-service analytics and data-driven decision-making across the organization and will be responsible for maturing the enterprise BI/analytics capability, driving adoption of Microsoft Fabric and modern data platform tools, and building a culture that is ready to leverage AI-augmented analytics.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or business preferred or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
5-10 years of hands-on Power BI experience, including report and dashboard development, data modeling, DAX, Power Query (M), and Power BI Service administration.
Strong technical proficiency across the full Power BI stack: data modeling (star schema, semantic models), DAX measures/calculations, Power Query/M for data transformation, Power BI Service administration (workspaces, gateways, RLS, deployment pipelines), and Power BI Report Server.
Hands-on experience with Azure Data Factory (ADF), including pipeline design, orchestration, data flows, and integration with Power BI and enterprise data sources.
Has demonstrated people leadership qualities such as communicates clearly to senior leaders, influences team members, acts as a mentor to others on the team, and is respected by peers.
Demonstrated experience gathering and translating business requirements into functional and technical BI specifications and creating end-user training and documentation.
Experience working cooperatively and collaboratively with all levels of employees across business and IT to maximize performance, creativity, problem solving, and results.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable business insights.
Has demonstrated people leadership qualities such as communicates clearly to senior leaders, influences team members, acts as a mentor to others on the team, and is respected by peers.
Ability to travel up to 20% domestically and internationally.

Nice To Haves

Certifications such as Microsoft PL-300 (Power BI Data Analyst), DP-600 (Fabric Analytics Engineer), or DP-203 (Azure Data Engineer) are desired.
Hands-on experience with, Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, OneLake, Dataflows Gen2, Direct Lake mode) and/or Databricks is strongly preferred, as the enterprise data platform continues to evolve toward these tools.
Interest and/or experience applying AI/ML and generative AI capabilities to analytics workflows — for example, Copilot in Power BI/Fabric, AI-assisted DAX/query generation, natural language Q&A visuals, or embedding AI-driven insights into dashboards — is a strong plus, with opportunity to grow this capability further in the role.
People management skills preferred for performance planning, professional development of staff, and making sound decisions to support departmental needs.
Makes clear and convincing verbal presentations to individuals or groups. facilitates an open exchange of ideas and fosters an atmosphere of open communication. Independently delivers high quality presentations to stakeholders as required. Effectively and consistently facilitate meetings with key stakeholders.
Makes good decisions (without considering how much time it takes) based upon a mixture of analysis, experience, and judgement. Appropriately escalates issues requiring direct manager insights, input on decisions. Ability to effectively seek out others, including leader or key stakeholders to ensure best decision is made.
With guidance identifies potential issues that could impact internal or external customers and resolves issues as appropriate. Promptly reacts to requests from customers in a timely and professional manner. Reinforces importance of customer service.
Ability to establish and maintain productive relationships with the team members and stakeholders. Actively seek feedback from internal and external stakeholder groups; listens effectively. Proactively communicates to foster a productive and transparent relationship.
Ability to lead work including people resources to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget. Ability to deliver with resources provided or communicate in a timely manner when additional resources (time, people, money) are required to deliver on time. Develop schedules and task/people assignments.
Can effectively present and when necessary, instruct others on how to structure projects according to Company standards. Ability to self-organize tasks to maximize productivity. Effectively organizes time and prioritizes activities that advance project goals and key deliverables.
Takes initiative to assess own development needs and seeks out constructive feedback. Implements plans to improve upon identified development needs. Proactively gains knowledge and seeks opportunities to further develop abilities.

Responsibilities

Complete assigned tasks that assist with the implementation of various BI and data analytics projects related to Buckeye's applications.
Document end-user and functional requirements related to new reports, dashboards, and data models.
Lead the maintenance of the Power BI platform (Service, Report Server, Gateways), related data pipelines, and dependent technologies.
Respond to reported application and reporting issues.
Lead administration of the Power BI tenant/workspace environment, including capacity management, security (RLS/OLS), licensing, gateway configuration, and administration of Microsoft Fabric and/or Databricks environments where applicable.
Lead the enhancement of enterprise BI systems with lifecycle management of assigned and dependent applications, including data warehouse, ADF pipelines, and semantic/data models.
Review and manage documentation for all supported applications and ensure documentation is current. Documentation may include IT PMO, Disaster Recovery, Interconnection, etc.
Review and manage testing of report/dashboard releases, data model changes, and platform upgrades before releasing them to the Buckeye Business and provide recommendations for BI system upgrades and enhancements (Power BI, Fabric, ADF, SQL).
Provide on-call support during non-business hours to Operations on an as-needed basis for critical BI/reporting systems.
Provide exceptional customer service to business stakeholders across functions who rely on enterprise reporting and analytics.
Lead and/or contribute to identifying potential opportunities to increase efficiencies and/or improvements to existing BI processes, data pipelines, and reporting standards.
Lead identifying gaps in the current reporting/analytics model and propose processes that will help move the business forward, including opportunities to leverage AI/Copilot capabilities.
If direct reports exist, oversee daily work functions of the team, and provide coaching and mentorship on BI development standards and best practices.
And other duties as assigned.