Senior Analytics Engineer

Senior Analytics Engineer
• Experis
• Edinburgh

Location:

Edinburgh
Job Type: Contract
Industry: Enterprise Applications
Job reference: BBBH
431672_
Posted: 17 days ago

My client are looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to join their 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.

• 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 and 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, out-come focused communication
• Nice to have:
  Python/PySpark, Purview/DataHUB
  , observability tooling, Direct Lake Optimisation.

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