Hands-On Data & AI Platform Lead – Azure Fabric

Asset Resourcing; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Leicester base role

Job summary

Asset Resourcing in the United Kingdom is seeking a hands-on leader to design and build a modern data platform on Azure Fabric. You will own end-to-end data ingestion, lakehouse architecture, and AI enablement, while mentoring a small team.

The role is hybrid in Leicester (3 days onsite) with a salary up to £100,000 plus bonus and significant technical scope. You will work directly with the CIO and stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions, while staying close to the tooling

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on experience building modern cloud data platforms end to end.
• Strong Azure data engineering background, including Data Factory, Synapse and/or Fabric, with solid SQL and pipeline/ETL-ELT fundamentals.
• Direct experience implementing medallion or equivalent layered lakehouse architecture.
• Comfortable being the most senior technical person in the room while still writing pipelines and making architectural decisions personally.
• Some experience leading, mentoring or growing a data engineering team.
• Strong stakeholder communication, with confidence communicating with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Production experience specifically in Microsoft Fabric is desirable.
• Power BI experience, particularly Direct Lake mode, is desirable.
• Python/PySpark experience is desirable.
• Data governance or security experience is desirable.
• Experience enabling AI/ML workloads from a data platform, not just BI, is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a modern data platform in Azure Fabric, from ingestion through to a governed lakehouse/warehouse and on to analytics and AI enablement.
• Implement medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold) as the core data model.
• Set technical direction as the senior technical owner of the data function.
• Work closely with the CIO and business stakeholders to translate requirements into a scalable, governed platform.
• Enable downstream analytics and AI/ML use cases as the platform matures.
• Lead and grow a small data engineering team over time.

Skills

Azure data engineering

SQL fundamentals

Pipelines / ETL-ELT

Leadership / mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

Python

Job description

Asset Resourcing in the United Kingdom is seeking a hands-on leader to design and build a modern data platform on Azure Fabric. You will own end-to-end data ingestion, lakehouse architecture, and AI enablement, while mentoring a small team.

The role is hybrid in Leicester (3 days onsite) with a salary up to £100,000 plus bonus and significant technical scope. You will work directly with the CIO and stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions, while staying close to the tooling