Senior Microsoft Fabric Platform Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior Fabric Administrator in London to manage and optimise Microsoft Fabric environments within a modern data and analytics platform. You will ensure platform stability, security, governance, performance and cost efficiency to support business reporting needs.

You will work with data engineering, cloud, security and governance teams, providing hands-on administration, monitoring, automation and best-practice standards across development,

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering and supporting Microsoft Fabric in a data and analytics environment.
• Knowledge of Fabric capacities, workspaces, OneLake and fabric workloads.
• Familiarity with Lakehouse/Warehouse concepts, pipelines and notebooks.
• Experience monitoring platform performance, capacity and incidents.
• Understanding of Azure services supporting data platforms (Azure Storage, Monitor, Entra ID).
• Knowledge of identity management, RBAC, data security and governance principles.
• Experience with change management and production documentation.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Microsoft Fabric capacities, workspaces and domains.
• Support Fabric workloads including Lakehouses, Warehouses and Data Pipelines.
• Monitor health and capacity using Fabric tools, Azure Monitor and dashboards.
• Investigate incidents and perform root-cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
• Manage capacity, concurrency, and resource utilisation for cost efficiency.
• Enforce security and access controls including RBAC and Entra ID.
• Support governance, lineage and compliance with Purview where applicable.
• Contribute to platform standards, environment management and runbooks.
• Assist with backup, resilience and disaster recovery for critical workloads.
• Automate admin tasks using scripts, APIs and tooling.
• Collaborate with data engineers, architects and security teams to ensure reliability.
• Maintain documentation and share knowledge with users.

Skills

Fabric administration

Azure Monitor

RBAC & security

Documentation & runbooks

Incident troubleshooting

Collaboration with data teams

Automation & scripting

Notebooks / Spark workloads

Education

Azure/Azure Fabric certification

Tools

Fabric Admin APIs

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Office integrations (Power BI)

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior Fabric Administrator in London to manage and optimise Microsoft Fabric environments within a modern data and analytics platform. You will ensure platform stability, security, governance, performance and cost efficiency to support business reporting needs.

You will work with data engineering, cloud, security and governance teams, providing hands-on administration, monitoring, automation and best-practice standards across development,