Senior Data Platform Engineer - Fabric & Analytics

Kite Packaging Ltd; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Scheme

Health Cash Plan

Cycle to Work Scheme

Share option after 6 months

Job summary

Kite Packaging Ltd is seeking an experienced data platform professional to own and advance our Fabric-based data platform and analytics suite. You will drive end-to-end engineering, modelling, analytics and visualisation, setting standards and guiding complex data-engineering challenges.

You will work with SQL, Python and the Microsoft stack, influence colleagues, and explore AI-enabled enhancements to data delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven experience within a modern data platform.
• Strong engineering background in data pipelines, modelling and performance tuning.
• Experience with Git-based collaboration and CI/CD for data solutions.
• Knowledge of platform security, governance and data quality controls.

Responsibilities

• Own the Fabric platform including data platform strategy, roadmap, and technical standards.
• Maintain and enhance the suite of strategic reports.
• Deliver analyses to improve decision making across Kite.
• Collaborate with systems teams to align and integrate data across platforms.
• Own the Data repository, including code quality, branching, CI/CD and release governance.
• Define best practices for data modelling, ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and semantic layer design.
• Drive platform reliability, performance, security, and cost optimisation.
• Lead solution design and address complex delivery challenges.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable platform capabilities.
• Mentor colleagues and foster an engineering culture.
• Ensure robust documentation, observability, and runbooks.

Skills

Modern data platform experience

Data pipelines, SQL, modelling

Git-based source control

CI/CD for data solutions

Security, governance, data quality

Technical leadership & mentoring

Strong communication

Microsoft Fabric/Azure ecosystem

Power BI semantic models

Fabric lakehouse patterns

Dynamics 365 data architecture

Google BigQuery

Ecommerce data environment

Tools

Git

Microsoft Fabric

Azure

Power BI

Job description

Kite Packaging Ltd is seeking an experienced data platform professional to own and advance our Fabric-based data platform and analytics suite. You will drive end-to-end engineering, modelling, analytics and visualisation, setting standards and guiding complex data-engineering challenges.

You will work with SQL, Python and the Microsoft stack, influence colleagues, and explore AI-enabled enhancements to data delivery.