Fabric Consultant (SC Cleared) - Contract

Microsoft Fabric Consultant (Frontend & Backend) £450 per day | Outside IR35 Initial 3-Month Contract | Rolling Extensions Mostly Remote | UK Travel Required SC Clearance Required (Active or Held Within Last 12 Months) We're partnering with a leading Microsoft Partner seeking an experienced Microsoft Fabric Consultant to support a range of enterprise client engagements. This role requires a consultant who can operate across the full Microsoft Fabric stack, combining strong backend data engineering expertise with frontend Power BI development and stakeholder engagement skills.Responsibilities • Design, build and optimise end-to-end solutions within Microsoft Fabric. • Develop and maintain Fabric Lakehouses, Warehouses, Data Pipelines and Dataflows. • Build scalable data ingestion and transformation processes using Fabric and related Azure technologies. • Design and develop Power BI dashboards, reports and semantic models. • Create complex DAX measures and data models to support business reporting requirements. • Work directly with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions. • Support Fabric migrations, platform enhancements and best practice implementation. • Provide guidance on data architecture, governance, performance optimisation and reporting strategy.Required Experience • Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric. • Experience across both backend data engineering and frontend BI/reporting. • Advanced Power BI development skills including DAX, data modelling and semantic models. • Experience building Lakehouse and Warehouse solutions. • Strong SQL skills. • Azure Data Factory and/or Azure Databricks experience beneficial. • Previous consultancy or client-facing experience. • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.Security Requirements • Active SC Clearance highly desirable. • Candidates who have held SC Clearance within the last 12 months will also be considered.Contract Details • £450 per day • Outside IR35 • Initial 3-month contract • Rolling extensions • Mostly remote • Travel to client sites as required