Sr Power BI Platform Lead

Position Overview

Novelis is one of the world leaders in aluminum recycling and rolling and a leading sustainable aluminum solutions provider. Driven by our purpose of shaping a sustainable world together, we work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace, automotive, beverage packaging and specialty markets. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Novelis has approximately 13,000 employees in 32 operating facilities on 4 continents.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Novelis is seeking a Sr Power BI Platform Lead to serve as the senior technical lead for enterprise business intelligence and performance reporting within the Analytics & Decision Intelligence team. Reporting to the Head of Decision Intelligence, this role is accountable for designing, building, and maintaining executive, plant, and functional dashboards, operational performance scorecards, and sustainability and 3×30 reporting views. The Sr Power BI Platform Lead owns the technical implementation of the certified KPI framework and semantic models, ensuring a single technical version of truth across plants and regions. This role enforces Power BI governance standards, optimizes platform performance, drives report rationalization, and partners with business stakeholders to translate analytics requirements into actionable, governed reporting solutions.

 

Capability Alignment

This role is aligned to the Decision Intelligence pillar and owns or contributes to the following enterprise capabilities:

• Enterprise BI & Performance Reporting
• Decision Intelligence

 

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise BI & Reporting

• Design, build, and maintain executive, plant, and functional dashboards, operational performance scorecards, and sustainability and 3×30 reporting views using Power BI.
• Own the technical implementation of the certified KPI framework and semantic models, ensuring a single technical version of truth across plants and regions.
• Enforce Power BI governance standards, manage workspace and dataset configurations, and optimize platform performance for enterprise-scale usage.
• Drive report rationalization by identifying and retiring ungoverned or unused reports, ensuring the reporting portfolio is clean, governed, and actionable.

Stakeholder Partnership

• Partner with business stakeholders across manufacturing, supply chain, finance, and operations to translate analytics requirements into governed reporting solutions.
• Implement business logic for consistent cross-plant and cross-region reporting, eliminating reconciliation effort and conflicting metrics.
• Coordinate with Data Engineering for data pipeline and semantic layer dependencies, ensuring data freshness and complete SLAs are met.

Strategic Traceability & Enterprise Alignment

• Align work execution to Novelis’ enterprise strategic data outcomes including trusted data, operational reliability, metal flow optimization, 3×30 sustainability goals, and cash focus/operational efficiency.
• Support the enterprise Data & AI Governance framework, ensuring governance is embedded into all workflows and deliverables.
• Contribute to quarterly planning, feature scoping, and sprint execution aligned to the enterprise delivery roadmap and KPI framework.

 

Accountability Boundaries

IT builds, operates, and maintains the analytics platforms and governed data products; business and operations partners use them to make decisions—IT does not own those decisions or their outcomes. This role does not own autonomous decision execution, AI model runtime, AI safety or guardrails, data platform infrastructure, ingestion pipelines, or data governance rules and MDM policy.

 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in business intelligence development, with deep expertise in Power BI.
• Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining enterprise BI platforms, KPI frameworks, and semantic models.
• Strong knowledge of DAX, Power Query, and data modeling best practices.
• Experience with BI governance, report lifecycle management, and performance optimization at enterprise scale.

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a quantitative, technical, or business-related field.
• Experience in manufacturing, industrial, or sustainability-focused organizations.
• Familiarity with modern BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) and cloud analytics platforms.
• Track record of establishing enterprise KPI standards across multi-site operations.

 

*Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship 

 

What We Offer:  

Novelis' benefits say a lot about how we care for each other. Our employees and their families have many different needs. As a result, our benefits offer choices on many levels and are high in quality, driven by the marketplace, and affordable. In addition to core benefits, we provide these unique to the industry benefits:  

• Family Growth Programs: Paid parental Leave, Adoption Assistance, Fertility Treatment, Childcare Discount and Nursing Mom Support  

• Employee Assistance Programs: free resources available 24/7 to you and your family in the areas of mental health, family life, and career and financial guidance  

• Wellness Programs: incentives for wellness activities, wellness spending account, programs for building healthy habits, virtual physical therapy for joint, back, and pelvic health, health management programs and more.  

• Diabetes Management Program 

• Pet insurance  

• Identity Theft Protection   

• PerkSpot Discount Program 
• Tuition assistance and career development programs   

 

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Location Profile

Novelis’ Global Corporate and North America Headquarters is located in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta GA employing around 700 people. Supporting it’s 31 operations worldwide Novelis’ corporate office is home to the executive leadership team and global functions that support the automotive beverage can and high-end specialties value streams. The City of Atlanta provides a diverse and family-friendly place to live with countless museums cultural organizations and educational institutions including the Georgia Aquarium Woodruff Arts Center CNN Center Georgia Tech and Mercedes-Benz Stadium. In the Atlanta area Novelis has strong community partnerships with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity GeorgiaFIRST and Agape Youth and Family Center in addition to many local museums and community groups.

 

Novelis recognizes its talented and diverse workforce as a key competitive advantage. Novelis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.All terms and conditions of employment at Novelis including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoffs recalls transfers leaves of absence compensation and training are without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal provincial or local laws.

Disclaimer

We encourage all potential candidates to follow the protocols below and to be diligent when sharing any personal information:1. Check the job posting is live and valid via our careers page: Careers - Novelis2. Verify any communication with us by contacting our talent team at Careers - Novelis