Senior Microsoft Fabric Architect & Data Platform Lead

Carrington Blake Recruitment

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 83,000 - 90,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Southwark Council is seeking a senior technical lead to provide architectural leadership for its Microsoft Fabric data and analytics platform. You will review and improve Fabric architecture, governance, security and operating models to ensure scalability, cost-efficiency and alignment with best practices and the Council’s digital strategy.

The role requires reviewing architecture across OneLake, Lakehouses and Data Pipelines, mentoring engineers, and delivering technical roadmaps and

Qualifications

Proven experience designing, reviewing and implementing enterprise-scale Microsoft Fabric solutions.
Strong knowledge of Microsoft Fabric components (OneLake, Lakehouses, Warehouses, notebooks, pipelines, dataflows, semantic models, Power BI).
Experience with enterprise data architecture and governance frameworks.
Understanding of Azure services, resource groups, subscriptions, RBAC, monitoring and security.
Experience with data protection, information governance and secure access to sensitive data.
Experience producing architecture standards, documentation, operating models and roadmaps.
Strong technical leadership and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical and senior stakeholders.
Experience mentoring and providing design assurance to technical teams.

Responsibilities

Review and provide assurance on Microsoft Fabric architecture and new solutions.
Design and validate architecture patterns across OneLake, Lakehouses, Warehouses, pipelines, notebooks, semantic models and Power BI.
Review the Council’s Bronze, Silver and Gold Medallion data architecture.
Strengthen governance, security, access controls and workspace management.
Monitor Fabric capacity, performance and costs and identify optimisation opportunities.
Work with Data, Cyber Security, Information Governance and business teams.
Advise on appropriate use of Fabric, self-service analytics and data products.
Support Dev, Test and Production processes, deployment pipelines and operational handover.
Produce architecture diagrams, standards, roadmaps and technical recommendations.
Mentor data engineers, analysts, developers and platform administrators.
Provide architectural advice on AI, Copilot and advanced analytics projects