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. The role Working as part of a multidisciplinary data programme, you will: • Design, build and operate solutions across Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, 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. What we're looking for 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 OneLake, 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 DevOps, 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. Please send your CV to Laura at lramm@itecopeople.co.uk Services advertised are those of an employment agency.