About this role
Salary: £85,000 - 95,000 per year
Requirements
- Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale data solutions and translating complex business and finance requirements into data-driven outcomes.
- Strong hands-on expertise with Microsoft Fabric, including Data Factory, OneLake, Lakehouses, Warehouses, Notebooks and Power BI.
- Advanced skills in SQL, data modelling, data integration, APIs and Python/Spark.
- Understanding of data governance, security, privacy, quality and operational support.
- Experience with financial data, reporting processes and system integrations.
- Knowledge of DevOps and engineering practices, including source control, automated testing, CI/CD and deployment pipelines.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Confident communication skills, with the ability to engage technical and business stakeholders, explain complex concepts and influence decisions.
- Experience with Azure data services, Microsoft Purview and modern cloud data architectures is highly desirable.
- Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Engineering or Power BI certifications are advantageous.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver Microsoft Fabric data solutions, including pipelines, lakehouses, warehouses and integrations for business insight and financial reporting.
- Partner with Finance and business stakeholders to turn complex requirements into trusted, scalable and high-performing data platforms.
- Build secure, automated data flows across financial systems, enterprise applications, APIs and third-party services, maintaining data quality and reliability.
- Promote data engineering best practices across solution design, testing, deployment, governance, documentation and continuous improvement.
- Troubleshoot and optimise data solutions, identifying opportunities to improve performance, reporting capabilities and business value.
- Use Microsoft Fabrics evolving capabilities to deliver measurable benefits while maintaining strong security and compliance standards.
Technologies
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Fabric
- Support
- Power BI
- Python
- SQL
- Security
- Spark
More
We are recruiting a Fabric Data Engineer to join the Data Engineering Team, where the role combines data solution design with hands-on data ingestion, transformation, modelling, integration and reporting. The position focuses on Microsoft Fabric and financial systems, translating business, finance and reporting needs into secure, maintainable data solutions that improve data quality, enable automation and deliver measurable value. The role is based in Manchester or Leeds with hybrid working and a salary of £85,000–£95,000. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business supplying temporary workers. By applying, candidates accept the applicable terms and conditions, privacy policy and disclaimers.
last updated 45 week of 2026