Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others. 

KONE’s vision is to create the Best People Flow experience by providing ease, effectiveness and experience to our customers and users. In line with our strategy, Sustainable Success with Customers, we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners, KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.

KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI) is where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.

KONE IT is a global team of expert professionals working along with business functions and area teams to develop new capabilities and enable new business opportunities. We are trusted partners of KONE business lines and functions to develop, transform, manage and run their information technology solutions. We support KONE in its digital transformation journey by introducing e.g. digital cloud-based IT services, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to support productivity, business growth and technological disruption. Sustainability, curious mindset and innovation are at the core of everything we do, and this makes us an integral part of KONE’s success.

IT professionals - KONE Corporation

Main responsibilities

Platform Administration & Governance

Administrate and manage the Microsoft Fabric environment, including user access, security configurations including secrets inside Azure keyvault, workspace structures, and data governance.
Configure and manage Fabric capacities, workspaces, and environments to ensure high performance, cost efficiency, and reliability.
Implement and manage Fabric gateways for data refreshes, live queries, and hybrid data connectivity.
Enforce governance policies, naming conventions, workspace standards, and data architecture guidelines across Fabric.
Ensure compliance with organizational security policies and industry standards, addressing audit and data privacy requirements.

Troubleshooting & Performance Optimization

Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Power BI reports, data sources, dataflows, semantic models, refresh failures, and connectivity.
Monitor platform performance and proactively optimize capacity usage, refresh schedules, dataset performance, and Direct Lake configurations.
Demonstrate proficiency with Power BI data models, DAX calculations, Power Query transformations, and Direct Lake mode.

Deployment & CI/CD Practices

Possess a strong understanding of deployment pipelines in CI/CD environments within Microsoft Fabric & GitHub, ensuring smooth and reliable release cycles for BI assets.
Collaborate with DevOps and data engineering teams to integrate BI workflows into enterprise deployment strategies.

Collaboration & Leadership

Collaborate with the enterprise data platform team to design, build, and maintain end-to-end data pipelines with robust troubleshooting capabilities.
Coordinate with cross-functional teams (data engineering, operations, and product management) to ensure cohesive solution delivery.

Innovation & Best Practices

Exhibit mastery in using Fabric shortcuts and advanced modelling techniques to streamline development workflows.
Stay up-to-date with the latest Fabric features, design frameworks, usability standards, and BI trends.
Drive continuous improvement of platform practices, deployment standards, governance, and automation.
Recommend and implement enhancements to increase scalability, adoption, and developer efficiency.

Requirements for the role

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and modern data architectural principles.
Strong knowledge of Microsoft Fabric including Power BI, Onelake, Data Factory and Data Engineering.
Hands on experience with Microsoft Power BI, Fabric, DBT and Proficiency with version control systems (e.g., Git).
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Proficiency in scripting languages such as SQL, DAX, Python and Power Query.
Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor development teams.
Actively exploring and applying AI-assisted capabilities to improve productivity in BI solution development and delivery.
Working in virtual matrix team with outstanding emotional intelligence skills, able to motivate team, remove the impediment, build excellent collaboration and psychological safe environment, champion for teamwork
Self-motivated and proactive with a passion for exploring and mastering new BI technologies.
Preferred Certifications: DP-600: Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer, DP-700 Microsoft Data Engineer Associate & DP-900: Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

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Senior Technical Design Specialist - BI

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