Data Engineering Lead / Microsoft Fabric

Data Engineering Lead is required by a large organisation to lead the design, delivery, and operation of a Microsoft Fabric-based data platform supporting BI, analytics, AI/ML and other data initiatives across the organisation.

You will be responsible for:

• Leading, mentoring, and growing a team of data engineers.
• Owning the roadmap for Fabric-based data platform.
• Designing, developing, and troubleshooting data pipelines, integrations, and Microsoft Fabric solutions.
• Leading delivery of data engineering projects and platform improvements against agreed quality, timescales, and business needs.
• Overseeing the design, build, testing, deployment, and maintenance of data pipelines and data integrations.
• Ensuring successful delivery of data assets.
• Ensuring platform availability, performance and reliability.
• Embedding data quality, security, and governance controls throughout the data platform.
• Building strong relationships with business and technology stakeholders, and managing third-party/supplier relationships
• Establishing engineering standards and driving CI/CD, DevOps, and automation practices.

Required Experience:

• Significant experience in data engineering/platform roles, with a proven track record delivering complex data platform solutions.
• Experience leading or managing technical engineering teams.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric.
• SQL, Python, and data modelling skills.
• CI/CD, Git, and DevOps/infrastructure-as-code experience.