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Principal Engineer - Microsoft Fabric (Contract)
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Key highlights
- 4 month contract position
- Requires extensive hands-on experience with core Microsoft Fabric components (Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Dataflows Gen2, Pipelines, Notebooks, Semantic Models, Power BI)
- Requires proven expertise designing and implementing Bronze, Silver, and Gold medallion architectures
- Includes flexible hybrid working as a key benefit
- Role focuses on governing enterprise Microsoft Fabric and OneLake Catalog capabilities
- Applicants receive a response within 5 working days of application
Role overview
This is a Principal Engineer role focused on building and governing a greenfield enterprise Microsoft Fabric data platform to drive enterprise reporting and analytics at scale for FE fundinfo. The role involves taking strategic ownership of the company's Microsoft Fabric platform, establishing best practices, building modern data architectures, enabling global self-service analytics, and working cross-functionally with enterprise technology leaders, architects, and business teams to shape data governance, discovery, and consumption processes across the business, in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment using cutting-edge Microsoft technologies.
Responsibilities
- Audit and standardise existing Microsoft Fabric workspaces, ensuring alignment with approved architecture, governance standards, security requirements, and naming conventions.
- Build a model domain reference implementation, including Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers, end-to-end data pipelines, semantic models, and reporting capabilities.
- Assess all existing Fabric workspaces, develop migration strategies, classify migration approaches, and deliver prioritised migration plans.
- Configure and govern OneLake Catalog capabilities, including metadata, endorsements, sensitivity labels, ownership information, and self-service discovery features.
- Monitor Fabric platform performance, capacity utilisation, access controls, and governance compliance while continuously improving platform standards.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineers, technology teams, and business stakeholders on Microsoft Fabric best practices and architecture.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, including Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Dataflows Gen2, Pipelines, Notebooks, Semantic Models, and Power BI.
- Proven expertise designing and implementing Bronze, Silver, and Gold medallion architectures within Fabric, Databricks, or Synapse environments.
- Highly skilled in OneLake, OneLake Catalog, Microsoft Purview, and modern data governance practices including metadata management, sensitivity labels, and endorsements.
- Strong experience building semantic models, developing Power BI reporting solutions, and delivering scalable data engineering and orchestration frameworks.
- Excellent communication skills and comfortable presenting technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders while influencing enterprise-wide decisions.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid working arrangements
- Opportunities to work alongside experienced technology leaders
- Exposure to enterprise-scale projects
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities
Additional details
- FE fundinfo fosters a collaborative, inclusive, and innovative culture where employees are empowered to make an impact.
- This role is a 4 month contract.
- The role offers the chance to influence a growing Microsoft Fabric platform while partnering with teams across multiple regions, including close collaboration with stakeholders in the UK.
- Applications are reviewed for immediate consideration, with responses promised within 5 working days of submission.
- Additional information about life at FE fundinfo is available on the company's Glassdoor profile or fefundinfo.com.
- The role was originally posted on Himalayas.