Fabric Data Engineer

Microsoft Fabric Engineer - 12 Month FTC

London / Hybrid

£60,900 per annum

12-month Fixed Term Contract

We are recruiting a Microsoft Fabric Engineer to join a major data platform transformation programme within a large, complex organisation.

This is a hands‑on engineering role where you will help design, build and operate a new enterprise data platform based on Microsoft Fabric, creating the foundations for reporting, analytics and AI‑driven services.

• Design, build and operate solutions across Microsoft Fabric, One Lake, Lakehouse and Warehouse.
• Develop robust ETL/ELT pipelines using Fabric Data Factory, Dataflows Gen2 and Spark Notebooks.
• Build and evolve Bronze, Silver and Gold data layers using medallion architecture.
• Design canonical and conformed data models for use across analytics, BI and other downstream services.
• Integrate enterprise source systems using batch and change-data-capture patterns.
• Implement data governance, catalogue and lineage capabilities using Microsoft Purview.
• Work with Azure services covering storage, networking, identity and security.
• Apply Git, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices to the data platform.
• Work closely with architects, analysts, engineers and business stakeholders to deliver reliable, reusable data products.

You will be an experienced Data Engineer with strong, hands‑on Microsoft Fabric experience and a background delivering production cloud data platforms.

You should have:

• Strong commercial experience with Microsoft Fabric, including One Lake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory, Dataflows Gen2 and Notebooks/Spark.
• Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines and medallion architectures.
• Strong data modelling experience, including canonical, dimensional or comparable enterprise data models.
• Good knowledge of the wider Microsoft Azure data ecosystem.
• Strong SQL skills together with Python and/or Spark.
• Experience with data governance, catalogue and lineage tooling such as Microsoft Purview.
• Experience with Git, Azure Dev Ops, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code approaches.
• The ability to work effectively with both technical teams and business stakeholders.

This is an excellent opportunity to take a key engineering role in the development of a new Microsoft Fabric data platform, with significant involvement in how the platform is designed, built and used across the organisation.