

Data Engineer
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This role is a Data Engineer focusing on Power BI, offering a 6-month contract at £400 per day, fully remote. Required skills include Power BI, SQL, Python, and Azure services. Experience in data engineering and DAX development is essential.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
400
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🗓️ - Date discovered
August 9, 2025
🕒 - Project duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location type
Remote
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📄 - Contract type
Inside IR35
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🔒 - Security clearance
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Dataflow #SQL (Structured Query Language) #dbt (data build tool) #Databases #Strategy #Synapse #Schema Design #Python #ADF (Azure Data Factory) #Automation #Microsoft Power BI #DevOps #DAX #Data Pipeline #Data Integration #Snowflake #Data Lake #Airflow #Programming #Batch #Data Engineering #Azure Data Factory #Datasets #DataOps #Scala #BI (Business Intelligence) #Azure
Role description
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Data Engineer – PowerBI
Remote Working – Inside IR35 - £400p/d
We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer with strong Power BI expertise. The role includes leading the delivery of scalable, high-quality data pipelines and analytics platforms.
Contribute to architectural decisions and engineering standards, with a key focus on Power BI implementation, DAX development, and dashboard optimisation. It suits someone capable of owning data engineering and reporting workstreams
• Design, develop, & maintain production-grade data pipelines that support Power BI dashboards and reporting models.
• Implement secure, efficient, and automated data flows to feed Power BI from various structured and unstructured sources.
• Develop and optimise Power BI datasets, dataflows, dashboards, and paginated reports to deliver actionable insights.
• Lead robust data integration solutions (ETL/ELT) across both batch and streaming contexts using tools such as Azure Data Factory, Synapse, or Dataflows.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into data models and Power BI visualisations.
• Implement performance tuning and optimisation for DAX measures and Power BI models.
• Work closely with platform engineers and architects on solution design for analytics environments including Power BI workspaces and governance.
• Maintain version-controlled and well-documented Power BI assets aligned to enterprise development practices.
• Contribute to Power BI governance practices (e.g., certified datasets, role-based access, workspace strategy).
Key Experiences:
• Experience in data engineering or backend development with strong exposure to Power BI.
• Proven hands-on experience developing and deploying Power BI reports, dashboards, and DAX measures.
• Proficiency in SQL and experience working with relational and analytical databases.
• Familiarity with Power Query (M) language and advanced transformations.
• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Exposure to orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt, Dataform) and integration with Power BI.
• Experience with Azure-based data services (Azure Data Lake, Synapse, Data Factory) and their integration with Power BI.
• Data modelling techniques including star/snowflake schema design for BI solutions.
• DevOps/DataOps principles as applied to Power BI CI/CD and workspace automation.
If you are available and interested in this opportunity, please apply for further information. Please note due to high volumes of applications we are unable to contact every application.
If you do not hear back from us within 7 days of sending your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.
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