Senior Analytics Engineer

My client are looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to join team on an initial 3-6 month contract
, Inside IR35. They are moving towards a data‑driven culture, and this individual will help lead their Fabric‑First analytics layer – designing reusable semantic models
, optimising Dataflows Gen2 and Lakehouse/Warehouse tables, and co‑creating their core management reporting suite.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the build of governed, high‑performance semantic models (Direct Lake/Import/Composite) and certified Data sets
• Engineer upstream transformations with PySpark/SQL/notebooks
  ; minimise DAX‑heavy shaping
• Co‑design the KPI Taxonomy and management reporting suite with Execs and functional leaders
• Optimise refresh, performance and deployment; enforce standards, security and documentation
• Mentor engineers and drive best practice across the analytics community
• Prepare models for CoPilot & Fabric AI
  : business‑friendly names, synonyms metadata and consistent measures.

• Strong Microsoft Fabric experience
  ; expert Power BI model design and performance tuning.
• Excellent Power Query and QL/T‑SQL
  ; advanced DAX for measures.
• Confidence engaging from C‑Suite to analysts; clear, outcome‑focused communication.
• Nice to have:
  Python/PySpark, Purview/DataHUB
  , observability tooling, Direct Lake Optimisation.

You’ll shape the semantic layer that shapes the company’s decision making, enabling AI‑assisted self‑service analytics with Co‑Pilot and delivering a trusted management reporting suite used at every level of the business.