Data Engineer

Are you a Senior Data Engineer who wants to help build a Microsoft Fabric platform from the ground up?

This Housing Association in Leeds is investing heavily in its data capability, with a clear move towards a modern Azure-based platform centred around Microsoft Fabric. The foundation of modern Microsoft tooling is there, but now they need someone to lead the greenfield move.

As Senior Data Engineer, you’ll build data systems and lead on designing and building the pipelines, standards, and structures that will underpin how data works across the business. You’ll also take technical direction from architecture and turn it into scalable, working solutions from an engineering perspective.

It’s a great role for someone who enjoys being hands‑on but also wants to step into a position where they influence how a data platform is designed and built, not just delivered against.

• Designing and building data pipelines
• Building into a Microsoft Fabric data platform
• Designing lakehouse structures and supporting modern data architecture approaches
• Driving best practice across CI/CD, testing, and automation
• Supporting cloud migration and the move towards a Fabric environment
• Collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements and deliver solutions
• Mentoring developers and helping improve engineering standards
  
  Acting as a technical escalation point for complex data issues

This is stage one of the move towards Fabric data platform, and this role sits right at the centre of that journey. So you won’t just be working on bits and pieces of an already structured environment, you’ll be building and shaping how data engineering is done across the organisation.

You’ll have the opportunity to influence architecture decisions, tooling choices, and engineering standards as the platform evolves so this is a great role for progression and growth.

• Experience with modern Microsoft data tooling (Ideally Fabric although Azure will be transferable)
• Hands‑on experience building data pipelines and working with ETL/ELT processes
• SQL and experience with PySpark or similar
• Understanding of modern data architectures (lakehouse, medallion patterns)
• Experience with CI/CD and Azure Dev Ops
• Solid understanding of data modelling, quality, and governance

This is a hybrid role where you should be able to go into the office near Leeds on occasion (once or twice a month)

The salary is £57,500 with a good benefits package including an excellent pension contribution.

If you’re a Data Engineer who wants to be part of a greenfield Fabric project, then this would be an amazing opportunity for you!