Lead Data Platform Engineer — Microsoft Fabric & AI

Government Recruitment Service; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 57,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident employer scheme

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service in Edinburgh is seeking a Lead Data Platform Engineer to shape how we receive and use data within the agency. The role offers flexible working and a commitment to development, with responsibility for the Microsoft Fabric and OneLake platform to enable trusted analytics, reporting and AI.

You will lead a data engineering team, work with Enterprise Architecture and delivery teams, and set engineering standards to ensure secure, scalable and reliable services.

Responsibilities

• lead Microsoft Fabric and OneLake development, setting direction and ensuring secure, scalable platform performance
• establish engineering practices: reusable components, automated testing, DataOps, CI/CD, and IaC to reduce tech debt
• define data movement between Dynamics 365, Dataverse and Azure, using batch and near-real-time updates
• enable analytics, reporting, AI and ML and move solutions into production
• embed governance and security, standards for data quality, lineage, metadata and access
• improve reliability and cost efficiency with AIOps, application support and FinOps on monitoring and consumption
• lead and develop data engineers, mentoring, knowledge sharing, recruitment and succession planning

Job description

Government Recruitment Service in Edinburgh is seeking a Lead Data Platform Engineer to shape how we receive and use data within the agency. The role offers flexible working and a commitment to development, with responsibility for the Microsoft Fabric and OneLake platform to enable trusted analytics, reporting and AI.

You will lead a data engineering team, work with Enterprise Architecture and delivery teams, and set engineering standards to ensure secure, scalable and reliable services.