Senior Data Engineer: Microsoft Fabric & Azure | Hybrid

Agilisys; Wigan; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Perks at Work discounts

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Agilisys is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to own modern data-platform workstreams built on Microsoft Fabric and the Azure Data Platform. You will collaborate with architects, analysts and client stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable data solutions and promote production-grade services.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to engineering standards and help clients migrate from legacy platforms to production-grade Fabric solutions in a fast-moving public sector environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial data engineering experience at senior level.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Fabric and Azure data platforms end to end: build and productionise Fabric solutions with OneLake, Lakehouses, Warehouses, Data Pipelines, Notebooks and Data Factory.
• Engineer reliable data pipelines and models using SQL, Python and PySpark; apply medallion, Kimball, normalised patterns; implement CDC, SCD, schema-change handling, idempotency, retries and data quality checks.
• Own Dev/Test/Production delivery and CI/CD: configure Fabric workspace structures, promote through environments with Git/Azure DevOps, and ensure rollback and approvals.
• Build for security and governance: implement secure-by-design controls with Entra ID, RBAC, data permissions, encryption; align with Fabric-native governance and Purview requirements.
• Optimise, monitor and troubleshoot production workloads: tune SQL/Spark/Delta storage, monitor pipelines and notebooks, handle data quality and failures in delivery.
• Support Power BI and data consumption: collaborate with analysts on semantic models, Direct Lake/Import, refresh, RLS/OLS, deployment and governed consumption.
• Lead engineering delivery and handover: own workstreams, mentor engineers, contribute to standards, and produce runbooks and documentation.

Skills

Senior data engineer

Microsoft Fabric

Azure data platform

SQL

Python

PySpark

Git & CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Power BI

Entra ID & RBAC

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Data Factory

Power BI

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Job description

Agilisys is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to own modern data-platform workstreams built on Microsoft Fabric and the Azure Data Platform. You will collaborate with architects, analysts and client stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable data solutions and promote production-grade services.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to engineering standards and help clients migrate from legacy platforms to production-grade Fabric solutions in a fast-moving public sector environment.