Data Manager

Location: Edinburgh (Hybrid) - up to three days in the office

Salary: Up to £75,000 + Benefits

Head Resourcing are partnering with an Edinburgh-founded business to recruit a Data Manager/Azure Fabric specialist to play a pivotal role in the organisation's data transformation journey.

This is an opportunity to bridge the gap between business strategy and modern data platforms, helping to design, build and govern enterprise-wide analytical solutions that support regulatory reporting, risk management, customer insight, operational efficiency and strategic decision-making.

Working closely with stakeholders across the business, you'll help establish data as a strategic asset while delivering scalable, compliant and high-quality data products using the Microsoft technology stack.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage with business stakeholders to understand and document data and reporting requirements.
• Translate business needs into analytical data products, automation initiatives and reporting solutions.
• Design and develop Lakehouse and Data Warehouse solutions using Microsoft Fabric.
• Build and optimise end-to-end data pipelines and ingestion frameworks.
• Deliver robust MI, dashboarding and reporting solutions within Power BI.
• Drive data governance initiatives including data lineage, quality, traceability and metadata management.
• Develop and maintain data models, business glossaries, process documentation and data dictionaries.
• Support regulatory reporting, risk analytics, customer insight and operational reporting initiatives.
• Identify opportunities for automation and improved business decision-making through data.
• Promote data literacy and champion best practice across the organisation.
• Collaborate with project, technology and change teams to support successful delivery of strategic initiatives.

Essential Skills & Experience

We're interested in speaking with candidates who can demonstrate:

• Significant experience designing and delivering modern data platforms and data architecture solutions.
• Strong experience with the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem.
• Expertise in:
• SQL
• Power BI
• Azure Data Services
• Data Warehousing
• Lakehouse architecture
• ETL / ELT development

Strong understanding of:

• Data governance
• Data quality management
• Data lineage
• Metadata management
• Data security principles
• Proven ability to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience gathering requirements and translating these into practical data solutions.
• Strong documentation and process mapping skills.
• Experience delivering data-driven solutions in complex business environments.

If this role sounds of interest and you would like to have a confidential chat to find out more, please apply or send your CV to to find out more.