Senior Data Engineer (Fabric)
Senior Data Engineer – Microsoft Fabric (Healthcare Programme)
Contract: Initial 6 months (likely extension)
Location: Remote
Overview
We’re supporting a UK healthcare provider on a major data transformation programme, focused on migrating a legacy on-premise data estate into a modern Microsoft Fabric platform.
This role is suited to a Senior Data Engineer or Data Platform Consultant who can operate across both legacy Microsoft stacks and modern cloud-based architectures, helping deliver a complex migration from end to end.
This is a hands-on role with strong influence over design, architecture, and delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead migration of legacy SQL Server, SSIS and SSRS environments into Microsoft Fabric
- Design and build scalable data solutions using Fabric, including Lakehouse, Pipelines and Dataflows Gen2
- Modernise ETL processes, transitioning from SSIS to Fabric or Azure-native pipelines
- Support transformation of reporting layers from SSRS into Power BI or Fabric
- Work closely with stakeholders across clinical, operational and technical teams
- Implement best practices across data modelling, ingestion and platform design
- Support knowledge transfer and capability uplift within the organisation
Required Experience
- Strong background in Microsoft on-prem data stack including SQL Server, SSIS and SSRS
- Proven experience delivering data migration or platform modernisation programmes
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, or strong Azure data platform experience with exposure to Fabric
- Strong SQL and data modelling capability
- Comfortable working in complex, stakeholder-heavy environments
Desirable Experience
- Experience working within healthcare, NHS or wider public sector environments
- Exposure to Azure Data Factory, Synapse and Power BI
- Understanding of data governance, lineage and security
- Experience working in consultancy or project-based delivery environments
Why this role
- Opportunity to play a key role in a high-impact healthcare data transformation programme
- Work on a large-scale migration from legacy systems into Microsoft Fabric
- Blend of hands-on engineering and architecture ownership
- Opportunity to influence long-term data platform strategy