Lead Data Engineer(MS Fabric) (SC Cleared)

  • Thrive IT Systems Ltd
  • 11/12/2025
Contractor Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

We have one open position of Lead Data Engineer(MS Fabric) with one of our client based at London, UK. This is a contract position. Below is the job description for your reference. Please share your application once you are interested.

Role: Lead Data Engineer(MS Fabric)

Mode: Contract

Location: London, UK

Hybrid(2 days per week work from office)

Job Description:

Role skills & responsibilities

  • Team leadership & delivery: Set standards, direct engineers, review designs, unblock delivery, mentor the team; plan and coordinate across internal squads and suppliers; manage risks/issues to meet EDP milestones.
  • Stakeholder coordination: Engage effectively with product owners, analysts and technology leads; report progress and risks to senior stakeholders and the SRO with concise status updates and decisions.
  • Technical leadership: Own EDP architecture on Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse/Warehouse patterns, OneLake organization); define and implement ingestion and transformation pipelines (Dataflows Gen2, Notebooks); establish modelling standards for the gold layer and semantic models; performance/cost optimization; lineage/observability; governance (RBAC/security, data retention).
  • Multi-source integration: Coordinate reliable ingestion/orchestration, testing and release practices.
  • Operational readiness: Ensure documentation/run-books and non-functional requirements (security, resilience, performance) are met.
  • Current EDP milestone - Gold-layer modelling (context for urgency)
  • Country/facility risk parameter processing progressing; initial gold-layer documentation produced.
  • Bi-weekly Golden Layer review cadence in place; test data preparation underway for report validation.

Target outcome: baseline gold-layer model components to enable consistent semantic models and reporting.