Data Engineer
Data Engineer
📍 Location: Birmingham or Northampton (candidate’s choice)
🏢 Onsite: 3 days per week
💼 Type: Full-time
💰 Salary: Up to £50,000
The Opportunity
We’re partnered with a large, well-established professional services organisation embarking on a major data transformation programme. With legacy SAP BW approaching end of support, the business is investing in Microsoft Fabric as its future data platform, creating an exciting opportunity for an experienced Data Engineer to play a key role in shaping the new architecture.
This role offers genuine long-term impact, working on a strategic platform migration while helping build strong data engineering practices across the wider technology function.
The Role
You will join a collaborative internal technology team and take ownership of the transition to Microsoft Fabric. Beyond the migration, you will help maintain and evolve the data platform, ensuring it supports high-quality reporting and analytics across Finance, HR, and Commercial functions.
You’ll work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating business requirements into scalable, well-governed data solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the design and rollout of Microsoft Fabric as the core data platform
- Work closely with IT, Data, Finance, HR, and Commercial teams to deliver technical solutions aligned to business needs
- Design and build data ingestion pipelines into Fabric
- Develop ETL and ELT processes using Fabric Data Pipelines, Azure Data Factory, and SAP Data Services
- Build robust data models supporting reporting and analytics use cases
- Create and maintain a high-quality reporting layer for downstream consumption
- Apply strong data governance practices, including GDPR and secure data handling
- Support and upskill colleagues in coding and engineering best practice
- Produce clear technical documentation and promote structured engineering processes
Skills & Experience
- Proven experience in a Data Engineering role within complex or enterprise environments
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, including OneLake, Lakehouse, Delta, Data Pipelines, Dataflows, and Power BI semantic models
- Strong SQL skills including performance tuning
- Experience with Python or PySpark for data transformations
- Practical experience building ETL or ELT pipelines
- Solid understanding of data modelling approaches such as dimensional modelling and medallion architecture
- Experience working with data governance, RBAC, and GDPR within a UK environment
- Familiarity with Git, CI/CD for analytics, and agile delivery
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Nice to have:
- Experience working with SAP data sources such as HANA, BW, SuccessFactors, or integration interfaces
Working Pattern
- Based in either Birmingham or Northampton (candidate’s choice)
- 3 days onsite per week
- Occasional travel to other offices may be required
Why Apply?
- Be part of a genuine platform transformation to Microsoft Fabric
- Work on meaningful, business-critical data initiatives
- Join a collaborative, supportive technology environment
- Clear opportunity to influence architecture and engineering standards
- Competitive salary up to £50,000