Senior Data Engineer: Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse & Power BI

ATS Client; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training budget

Flexible working arrangements

Career development

Job summary

ATS Client in South Africa seeks a mid-to-senior Data Engineer to design and deliver a modern analytics platform, consolidating data from multiple sources into a unified Fabric-based ecosystem. You will own data pipelines, modeling, and semantic layers for Power BI reporting.

You will lead architectural decisions, engage stakeholders across Operations, QA, and CRM, and drive reliable analytics delivery in a fast-moving environment. Remote or hybrid options across SA are available.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years hands-on data engineering or analytics engineering experience.
• Production-grade solutions using Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse, Warehouse, Dataflows, Pipelines, Semantic Models).
• Advanced SQL and data modelling skills.
• Strong Python for data transformation and orchestration.
• Experience integrating REST APIs and SaaS data sources.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ingestion frameworks.
• Consolidate data from multiple sources into unified analytics platform.
• Model and transform data for high-quality datasets for reporting and analysis.
• Architect and manage Lakehouse and Data Warehouse solutions in Microsoft Fabric.
• Develop semantic models for Power BI reporting and analytics.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define metrics and KPIs; translate to scalable data solutions.
• Identify and resolve data quality, integrity, and reconciliation issues.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural decisions for scalable solutions.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize data pipelines for reliability and performance.
• Champion data governance, security, and analytics architecture.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Python development

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Communication

Independent in fast-moving env

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse Analytics

Databricks

Git / GitHub

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

ATS Client in South Africa seeks a mid-to-senior Data Engineer to design and deliver a modern analytics platform, consolidating data from multiple sources into a unified Fabric-based ecosystem. You will own data pipelines, modeling, and semantic layers for Power BI reporting.

You will lead architectural decisions, engage stakeholders across Operations, QA, and CRM, and drive reliable analytics delivery in a fast-moving environment. Remote or hybrid options across SA are available.