Senior Data Engineer (Microsoft Fabric / Azure / AI)

Senior Data Engineer (Microsoft Fabric / Azure / AI)

Birmingham or London – Flexible Hybrid | 2-3 days per week | £60,000–£70,000 + 10% bonus + excellent benefits

If you're a Senior Data Engineer who enjoys building modern platforms and wants genuine influence over technology direction, this is an opportunity to join a business making significant investment across data, Microsoft technologies and AI.

We're supporting a large enterprise organisation undergoing major transformation, with a strong focus on modernising its Azure data estate and accelerating adoption of Microsoft Fabric.

This role sits at the centre of that journey.

You will help shape a modern Azure-native data platform, support the transition toward a Fabric-first environment and play a visible role in how machine learning and AI-driven insights are integrated into production data solutions.

This is not a role focused purely on BAU delivery. You will have the opportunity to influence architecture decisions, mentor others and help shape the future direction of the platform.

The opportunity

You will take ownership of designing and delivering scalable data pipelines, analytics solutions and data models across a modern Azure environment.

Alongside supporting existing Azure Synapse and Data Lake environments, you will play a key role in the strategic move towards Microsoft Fabric and support emerging AI and advanced analytics initiatives.

You'll be joining a collaborative and technically strong team where ideas are encouraged and engineers are given real ownership.

Key responsibilities

• Design and build scalable Azure data pipelines and ETL workflows

• Lead and support migration towards a Microsoft Fabric-first platform

• Develop and optimise data models supporting reporting and analytics

• Integrate machine learning outputs and AI-driven insights into data solutions

• Work across Azure Synapse, SQL Server and Azure Data Lake environments

• Develop and support Power BI datasets and reporting capability

• Coach and mentor engineers across the wider team

• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver business-focused solutions

What we're looking for

• Strong Azure Data Engineering experience

• Advanced SQL and data modelling capability

• Experience with Azure Synapse and Azure Data Lake

• Exposure to Microsoft Fabric

• ETL and data pipeline optimisation experience

• Experience supporting machine learning or AI-driven data initiatives would be beneficial

• Experience working within Agile environments

• Strong communication skills and mentoring capability

What you'll get

• £60,000–£70,000 salary

• 10% annual bonus

• 7% employer pension contribution

• Private medical insurance

• Income protection

• Hybrid working, 3 days per week Birmingham

• Opportunity to influence a modern Microsoft Fabric and AI roadmap

• Strong long-term progression and technical ownership

If you're looking for a role where you can combine hands-on engineering with real influence and help shape a growing data capability, I’d be happy to share more details.