Senior Data Platform Engineer
Fully Remote (UK) | Up to £130,000 + Benefits
Build Something From The Ground Up
This is not a role maintaining legacy systems.
This is an opportunity to design, build and own a modern enterprise data platform from day one, shaping the future of data, analytics and decision-making for a fast-growing technology business operating in a highly regulated and data-rich environment.
We're looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer who thrives on creating scalable solutions, influencing technical direction and delivering genuinely business-critical outcomes. You'll be the driving force behind the evolution of a Microsoft Fabric-powered data ecosystem, working closely with senior leadership to establish architecture, engineering standards and long-term strategy.
What You'll Be Doing
Own the Data Platform
- Design and implement a modern Microsoft Fabric data platform
- Lead the journey from early-stage capability to a fully production-ready environment
- Define scalable architecture patterns across warehouse, lakehouse and analytics layers
- Make key technical decisions that balance immediate delivery with future growth
Engineer Robust Data Solutions
- Build automated, resilient data pipelines
- Integrate data from databases, APIs, SaaS platforms and business applications
- Develop scalable ingestion, transformation and orchestration processes
- Implement monitoring, quality controls and operational excellence
Deliver Business Value
- Create trusted semantic models and Power BI solutions
- Transform fragmented reporting into governed, reusable data products
- Enable executive reporting, operational analytics and future advanced analytics use cases
- Establish consistent business metrics and data definitions
Drive Best Practice
- Introduce CI/CD, source control and automated deployment processes
- Implement governance, security and access control frameworks
- Establish documentation, standards and support models
- Shape the future roadmap of the organisation's data capability
What We're Looking For
You'll likely bring:
✅ Significant experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering or a similar role
✅ Experience building production data warehouses, lakehouses or modern cloud data platforms
✅ Strong Microsoft Fabric expertise, including some of:
- OneLake
- Fabric Lakehouse
- Fabric Warehouse
- Data Factory
- Notebooks
- Power BI
- Semantic Models
- Dataflows
✅ Advanced SQL skills
✅ Python and/or PySpark experience
✅ Strong dimensional modelling and data warehousing knowledge
✅ Experience building enterprise data pipelines and integrations
✅ Power BI development expertise, including DAX and performance optimisation
✅ Experience with Git, CI/CD and modern engineering practices
✅ Strong understanding of security, governance and data quality
✅ Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
Why This Opportunity?
- Fully remote anywhere in the UK
- Up to £130,000 salary
- Opportunity to build a strategic platform from the ground up
- High level of ownership and technical influence
- Greenfield Microsoft Fabric environment
- Clear pathway to shape architecture, standards and future growth
- Join a business investing heavily in its data and analytics capability
Ready to lead the creation of a modern data platform rather than inherit one?
This is a rare opportunity to take ownership of a business-critical Microsoft Fabric estate, make architectural decisions that matter, and create the foundation for data-driven growth at scale. Apply now. 🚀
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