Senior Data Platform Engineer

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. 🚀