Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

£500 per day, Inside IR35

Initial 3-month contract

Morpeth, Northumberland, once per fortnight onsite

BPSS clearance required

We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to support a key public sector data transformation programme.

This role is suited to a Microsoft Fabric-focused Data Engineer with strong Azure experience and recent cross-cloud exposure, ideally including AWS. You will be responsible for designing and delivering data integration, transformation and visualisation solutions within Microsoft Fabric, helping the client improve operational insight and support channel shift analysis.

You will work as part of an agile delivery team, providing technical leadership, mentoring less experienced team members and contributing to shared data engineering standards and documentation.

Key responsibilities

You will design, build and optimise robust data pipelines within Microsoft Fabric, including bronze, silver and gold layer structures. You will implement data matching and data quality rules, optimise Lakehouse and semantic models, and enable effective Power BI reporting.

You will also integrate data from a range of systems, including contact centre platforms, CRM systems and line-of-business applications. Experience with AWS Connect or similar contact centre platforms would be highly beneficial.

The role will require strong stakeholder engagement, working closely with technical and non-technical teams to understand data requirements and deliver clear, meaningful insight.

Essential skills and experience

You will need:

• 7+ years’ experience as a Data Engineer
• Strong Microsoft Fabric experience
• Expert-level Azure data engineering experience
• Recent AWS cross-cloud exposure
• Experience building bronze, silver and gold data pipelines
• Strong Lakehouse and semantic model optimisation experience
• Power BI dashboard and reporting experience
• Experience integrating CRM, contact centre and line-of-business platforms
• Strong data quality, data matching and transformation experience
• Agile delivery experience
• Ability to provide technical leadership and mentor others
• Excellent stakeholder management skills

Contract details

• £500 per day
• Inside IR35
• Initial 3-month contract
• BPSS clearance required
• Onsite in Morpeth once per fortnight
• ASAP start

This is a great opportunity for a senior data professional who enjoys hands-on delivery, technical leadership and helping public sector organisations make better use of their data.