Syntax Consultancy
11/12/2025
Contractor
Data Engineer (SC Cleared) London (Hybrid) 6 Month Contract £500/day (Inside IR35) Data Engineer needed with strong Microsoft Fabric enterprise data platform expertise, and active SC Security Clearance . 6 Month Contract based in London (Hybrid). Paying £500/day (Inside IR35). Start ASAP ideally Dec 2025/Jan 2026. Hybrid Working - 3 days/week remote (WFH), and 2 days/week working on-site from the office in Central London . A chance to work with a leading global IT and Digital transformation business specialising in Government projects. Key skills, experience + tasks will include: Technical Leadership: owning Microsoft Fabric architecture including: Lakehouse, OneLake organization, Warehouse patterns, Gold Layer modelling, defining/implementing ingestion + transformation pipelines (Dataflows Gen2, Notebooks), establishing modelling standards for Gold Layer + semantic models, performance optimization, lineage/observability, governance, RBAC, security, data retention. Team Leading/Delivery: setting standards, directing/mentoring the team, reviewing designs, unblocking delivery. Planning/coordinating internal squads and external suppliers, managing risks/issues + meeting milestones. Stakeholder Management: engaging with product owners, analysts + tech leads, progress/risk reporting. Multi-source Integration: coordinating reliable ingestion + orchestration, testing, test data preparation, reporting validation, release practices. Operational Readiness: ensuring documentation/run books + non-functional requirements are met (security, resilience, performance). Short-Term Objective: baseline Gold Layer model components to enable consistent semantic models and reporting.