Senior Data Engineer

Experis are partnering with an organisation who are undertaking a significant transformation and are seeing a Senior Data Engineer with strong Microsoft Fabric expertise to support the delivery of a modern data platform. This role is Inside IR35, and is for an initial 3 months (with the potential to extend past this date).

This is a hands‑on contract opportunity where you'll be expected to make an immediate impact, designing and delivering production‑ready data solutions within a fast‑paced environment.

• Build and Design end‑to‑end Data Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric
• Develop scalable transformations using PySpark/SparkSQL/Notebooks
• Structure data using Lakehouse/Warehouse modelling approaches
• Implement data quality, validation, and monitoring controls
• Optimise pipeline performance and execution reliability
• Document data flows, transformations and dependencies

• Strong hands on experience with Microsoft Fabric (OR Databricks)
• Advanced PySpark/Spark SQL
• Strong Python and SQL/T‑SQL capability
• Experience with Azure SQL/SQL Managed Instance
• Proven Track record delivering end‑to‑end data pipelines in production

• Experience with Power BI/semantic layer integration
• Exposure to Fabric Dataflows Gen2/notebooks
• Experience migrating from legacy platforms
• Data Governance / metadata tooling

This role will be based in Edinburgh (2-3 days a week on‑site). They are also open to individuals based in the wider Central Belt, however there will still be an expectation to visit the Edinburgh office 1x per week.