Data Engineer

Data Engineer (Pharma Background Essential)

• £550 per day - INSIDE IR35
• 6 Months
• Hybrid - 1 day per week in London

Role Purpose

We are currently looking for a Data Engineer to be responsible for designing, building and maintaining our clients data pipelines and platform infrastructure on Microsoft Fabric. Operating within a consulting model, this role deploys across engagements of varying scope and duration, delivering production-grade data solutions that meet client requirements.

Required Skills and Experience

• Expereince of working within the pharma/lifesciences sector.
• Demonstrable experience building data pipelines in production environments.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Fabric, including Data Factory, lakehouses, warehouses, notebooks and semantic models.
• Strong skills in PySpark, Spark SQL and T-SQL for data transformation.
• Experience with medallion architecture or equivalent layered data processing patterns.
• Working knowledge of OneLake, delta tables and Fabric capacity management.
• Proficiency with version control (Git) and CI/CD practices for data platform assets.
• Understanding of data governance principles, including cataloguing, lineage and access control.
• Experience working in a consulting, professional services or client-facing delivery environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences

Desirable Skills

• Experience with Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Synapse Analytics or Azure Data Factory prior to Fabric migration.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Purview for data governance and compliance.
• Exposure to Power BI semantic models and report development within Fabric.
• Experience with event-driven architectures using Azure Event Hubs or Kafka.
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Bicep for Azure resource provisioning.
• DP-600 (Fabric Analytics Engineer) certification or equivalent Microsoft certifications.