Fabric Engineer (Microsoft

Methods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy that partners with central government departments, agencies, and commercial organisations to deliver meaningful digital transformation. Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we combine expertise in transformation, delivery, technology, and collaboration to create people-centred solutions that deliver lasting value.

Predominantly focused on the public sector, whilst continuing to expand its private sector presence, Methods combines deep consulting expertise with the capability and scale of the Alten Group, which acquired Methods in 2022.

As part of our continued growth, we are seeking an experienced and technically capable Microsoft Fabric Engineers to design, install, configure and support Microsoft Fabric solutions for our clients across public and private sector environments.

This role will support the delivery of modern data platforms, analytics services and integrated data solutions, helping customers make better use of their data through Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, One Lake, Data Factory, Synapse Data Engineering, Data Warehousing and Real-Time Intelligence capabilities.

The Microsoft Fabric Engineer carries out the following activities:

• Design Microsoft Fabric solutions that align to customer data strategies, business outcomes and technical requirements.
• Install, configure and set up Microsoft Fabric environments, including work spaces, capacities, security models and tenant-level settings.
• Configure One Lake, Lake houses, Warehouses, Dataflows, Pipelines, Notebooks and semantic models to support scalable data ingestion, transformation and reporting.
• Develop robust data engineering patterns using Microsoft Fabric Data Factory, Data Engineering and Data Warehouse capabilities.
• Support the migration of existing data workloads from legacy platforms, Azure Synapse, SQL Server, Power BI or other analytics environments into Microsoft Fabric.
• Apply best practice across performance, security, governance, cost control and operational resilience.
• Produce high-quality technical documentation, including solution designs, configuration guides, deployment plans and support handover materials.
• Work closely with architects, data engineers, analysts and customer stakeholders to ensure Fabric solutions are practical, secure and deliverable.

• Build and maintain data pipelines to ingest, transform and publish data from a range of structured and unstructured sources.
• Develop Lakehouse and Warehouse solutions that support analytics, reporting, operational insight and downstream data consumption.
• Create and optimise semantic models to support Power BI reporting and self-service analytics.
• Configure data refresh, scheduling, monitoring and alerting processes to support reliable production services.
• Support integration with Azure services, Microsoft Purview, Power Platform, APIs, databases and third-party applications.
• Optimise queries, workloads, storage structures and data models to improve performance and reduce cost.
• Ensure solutions are designed with appropriate data quality, lineage, access control and governance controls.

• Configure Microsoft Fabric work spaces, permissions, deployment pipelines, capacity settings and environment controls.
• Implement role-based access control, sensitivity labelling, data protection and secure-by-design configuration patterns.
• Support governance and catalogue integration, including alignment with Microsoft Purview where required.
• Establish monitoring, logging and operational support processes for Fabric workloads.
• Troubleshoot platform, pipeline, data modelling, refresh, connectivity and performance issues.
• Support testing, release management and transition into live service.
• Contribute to technical assurance reviews, identifying risks, dependencies and improvement opportunities.
• Maintain awareness of Microsoft Fabric product updates, licensing changes and emerging best practice.

• Work collaboratively with delivery teams, architects, business analysts and customer stakeholders to translate requirements into working Fabric solutions.
• Support pre-sales and discovery activity by providing technical input, estimates and solution options where required.
• Contribute to reusable Methods assets, accelerators, templates and delivery standards for Microsoft Fabric.
• Share knowledge with colleagues and support the development of Methods' wider data, analytics and Microsoft capability.

• Proven experience designing, installing, configuring or supporting Microsoft Fabric solutions.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Fabric capabilities, including One Lake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Science, Real-Time Intelligence and Power BI.
• Experience building data pipelines, data models, Lakehouse or Warehouse solutions using Microsoft data technologies.
• Good knowledge of…