Data Practice Lead: Fabric & AI Solutions (Remote-friendly)

Client Server Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary to £120k

Pension

Private medical care

Life Assurance

Enhanced maternity/paternity

25 days holiday

Diverse, inclusive culture

Job summary

Client Server Limited seeks a Data Practice Lead (Microsoft Fabric) to own large client engagements, shape a strategic data capability and lead a high-performing team from discovery through delivery and value realisation.

You will leverage Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and the broader Azure data stack to design scalable data, analytics and AI solutions, while growing the practice through presales, partnerships and propositions.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading enterprise data, analytics or AI consulting engagements in a consultancy or tech-services environment.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Microsoft Fabric and related data architectures (data engineering, Lakehouse, Warehouse).
• Expertise in Power BI, semantic modelling, governance and adoption at scale.
• Broad Microsoft data ecosystem experience (Azure Data Factory, Databricks, SQL, Purview, Power Platform).
• Experience managing senior stakeholders, complex programmes, risks and commercial outcomes.
• Presales experience across discovery, design, estimation, proposals and executive presentations.
• Commercial acumen with ability to balance client value, feasibility and profitability.
• Proven track record building teams, propositions or scaling a consulting capability.
• Understanding of AI and generative AI in enterprise data contexts.

Responsibilities

• Lead major client engagements from discovery to value realisation, ensuring quality and measurable outcomes.
• Translate business challenges into pragmatic data, analytics and AI solutions and provide technical direction.
• Define and drive the data practice strategy, architecture standards and reusable accelerators.
• Grow the Data Practice through client workshops, proposals and joint go-to-market with partners.

Skills

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

Azure Data Factory

Azure Databricks

Azure SQL

Microsoft Purview

Power Platform

Data governance

Data architectures

AI & Gen AI

Presales & proposals

Executive stakeholder management

Delivery leadership

Tools

Lakehouse

Warehouse

Job description

Client Server Limited seeks a Data Practice Lead (Microsoft Fabric) to own large client engagements, shape a strategic data capability and lead a high-performing team from discovery through delivery and value realisation.

You will leverage Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and the broader Azure data stack to design scalable data, analytics and AI solutions, while growing the practice through presales, partnerships and propositions.