Senior Data Engineer – Fabric Platform & AI Pipelines

Grant Thornton UK LLP; Southampton; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton UK LLP is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build and run data pipelines on Microsoft Fabric, enabling secure, reliable data for analytics and AI initiatives. You’ll own ingestion from core systems and shape data structures for reporting with Power BI.

You’ll guide and coach junior engineers, collaborate with Data Office, IT and the business, and help migrate legacy ETL/ELT processes to Fabric with careful cut-over planning.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python, PySpark and SQL.
• Experience designing, building and running data pipelines.
• Knowledge of data governance, security and access controls.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and run data pipelines using Fabric Data Factory and Fabric Lakehouse.
• Own ingestion of data from core systems (Workday, Dynamics 365, Business World, SharePoint).
• Set up version control, CI/CD and automated testing for data solutions.

Skills

Python

PySpark

SQL

Data modeling

Data warehousing

ETL/ELT

Tools

Fabric Data Factory

Fabric Lakehouse

Fabric Warehouse

Fabric Notebooks

Power BI

Git

CI/CD

Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Lake

Job description

Grant Thornton UK LLP is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build and run data pipelines on Microsoft Fabric, enabling secure, reliable data for analytics and AI initiatives. You’ll own ingestion from core systems and shape data structures for reporting with Power BI.

You’ll guide and coach junior engineers, collaborate with Data Office, IT and the business, and help migrate legacy ETL/ELT processes to Fabric with careful cut-over planning.