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Head of Data Engineering – Microsoft Fabric
Contract & Location: 9 month contract - 2 days per week in London office.
Rate: £525/day Outside IR35
Role:
Leadership & Strategy: Lead the Data Engineering function and own the enterprise data engineering strategy, architecture roadmap, standards, and delivery across a Microsoft Fabric-led data estate.
Microsoft Fabric Expertise: Provide senior technical leadership across Microsoft Fabric, including OneLake, Lakehouses, Warehouses, Data Pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, Spark Notebooks, KQL and Real-Time Intelligence.
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Data Architecture & Migration: Design and oversee modern cloud-first data architectures, including Delta Lake and Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion patterns, with experience migrating legacy platforms such as Oracle or Azure Synapse.
Enterprise Data Integration: Lead the integration and data engineering strategy across key enterprise platforms including Salesforce, Certinia, Workday, Dynamics 365 F&O, GMS, ECS, Avetta, Rydoo and Tipalti.
Engineering Team Leadership: Lead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team covering development, testing, release management and platform operations, establishing strong engineering standards, code reviews and agile delivery practices.
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Governance, Security & Quality: Own data governance, security and lineage using technologies such as Microsoft Purview, Entra ID and RBAC, ensuring robust controls, data quality and compliance.
DevOps & Operational Excellence: Establish CI/CD, Git-based source control, automated deployment and infrastructure-as-code practices, while optimising Spark workloads, Fabric capacity, performance and cost.
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