Fabric Administrator

About the role

At K&L Gates, we are looking for smart, imaginative and hard-working people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas to join us. Perhaps our search for talented visionaries and your search for important and impactful work lead to the same place. Microsoft Fabric Administrator The Fabric Administrator is the senior technical lead for Microsoft Fabric, responsible for governance, security, and adoption across enterprise analytics. This role collaborates with Data Engineers, BI teams, architects, and business stakeholders to maintain a secure, efficient, and compliant platform.

Responsibilities

• Administer Fabric tenant settings, workspace structures, Fabric Domains, and platform configurations across capacities, ensuring alignment with established governance standards.
• Manage domain-level delegation and data product boundaries across business units in line with data mesh principles.
• Manage capacity provisioning, performance monitoring, utilization analysis, and cost optimization.
• Oversee capacity throttling, smoothing, and interactive versus background operations, and make pause, resume, and scale decisions on F-SKU capacities using the Fabric Capacity Metrics App.
• Configure and maintain security controls, including role-based access, workspace permissions, sharing settings, and conditional access aligned with enterprise requirements.
• Administer and validate row-level security (RLS) and object-level security (OLS) at the semantic model layer, including role membership models, security-table design, and deployment-time integrity checks (for example, guarding against REST or automated deployments stripping role members).
• Manage Microsoft Entra ID