Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer

Senior Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer £550 - £650 per day Outside IR35 6 month initial contract UK Remote Overview I’m working with a client scaling out their Microsoft Fabric estate and need a genuinely hands-on Fabric engineer with active 2026 delivery experience. This is not a proof of concept environment. This is a live, production Fabric implementation supporting core business workloads. We’re looking for someone who has built Fabric end-to-end and understands how to design, optimise and scale it properly. Experience Required • 18+ months hands-on Microsoft Fabric delivery • At least one end-to-end production Fabric implementation • Strong Azure Data Engineering background (Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Databricks) • 5+ years overall Data Engineering experience Key Responsibilities • Design and implement Fabric Lakehouse architecture in OneLake • Build and optimise Bronze / Silver / Gold (medallion) layers • Develop and maintain Delta tables using PySpark • Create and manage Fabric-native pipelines • Integrate semantic models via Direct Lake • Implement CI/CD and Git-based deployment workflows • Support performance optimisation, governance and security design • Collaborate with stakeholders to shape and scale the data platform Technical Stack • Microsoft Fabric • OneLake • Delta Lake • PySpark / Spark • Fabric Data Factory pipelines • Direct Lake • Azure Synapse / ADF / Databricks • Git / CI-CD Nice to Have • Experience migrating into Fabric from Synapse or Databricks • Performance tuning of large-scale Lakehouse environments • Data platform governance and cost optimisation experience Important This role requires genuine production Fabric experience in 2025/2026. Certification alone will not be sufficient. If you’ve built Fabric in production and are available or becoming free soon, get in touch.