Senior Data Engineer (Microsoft Fabric)

Project overview

Senior Data Engineer (Microsoft Fabric) | Contract

📍North East England (1 day onsite every fortnight)

💰 Up to £520 per day

🕒 Initial 3-month contract (Likely to extend)

🔐 BPSS Clearance Required

🚀 Immediate Start

We're working with a large organisation undergoing a significant data transformation programme and are looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to help build and optimise a modern data platform powered by Microsoft Fabric.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a high-impact project where you'll combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, helping to unlock valuable operational insights from enterprise data.

The Role As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, building and optimising scalable data solutions using Microsoft Fabric, Azure and Power BI. You'll work closely with stakeholders across the organisation, integrating multiple business systems and ensuring data is accessible, trusted and ready for decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

Essential Skills & Experience ✔ 7+ years' experience in Data Engineering

✔ Strong hands-on Microsoft Fabric expertise

✔ Deep Azure data engineering experience

✔ Exposure to AWS and cross-cloud integrations

✔ Experience integrating enterprise applications, CRM platforms and contact centre solutions

✔ Strong Power BI and data modelling capabilities

✔ Experience building and optimising scalable data pipelines

✔ Strong understanding of data quality and governance practices

✔ Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership

✔ Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

What's on Offer?

If you're a Senior Data Engineer with strong Microsoft Fabric expertise and experience delivering modern cloud data platforms, we'd love to hear from you.

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• Design and deliver data integration, transformation and visualisation solutions using Microsoft Fabric.
• Build and optimise Bronze, Silver and Gold data pipelines.
• Integrate CRM, contact centre and other line-of-business applications into modern data platforms.
• Develop and optimise Lakehouse architectures and semantic models.
• Create intuitive Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions.
• Implement data quality, governance and matching processes.
• Contribute to engineering standards, documentation and best practices.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor less experienced team members.
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to deliver business value.
• Up to £520 per day
• Initial 3-month contract
• Hybrid working model
• Opportunity to work on a major data transformation programme
• Immediate start available

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Location: Northumberland, North East, England, GB
• Rate: 50-65 EUR/h