Data Engineer (SC Cleared) London (Hybrid) 6 Month Contract £500/day (Inside IR35) Data Engineer needed with strong Microsoft Fabric enterprise data platform expertise, and active SC Security Clearance. 6 Month Contract based in London (Hybrid). Paying £500/day (Inside IR35). Start ASAP ideally Dec 2025 / Jan 2026. Hybrid Working - 3 days/week remote (WFH), and 2 days/week working on-site from the office in Central London. A chance to work with a leading global IT and Digital transformation business specialising in Government projects. Key skills, experience tasks will include: Technical Leadership: owning Microsoft Fabric architecture including: Lakehouse, OneLake organization, Warehouse patterns, Gold Layer modelling, defining / implementing ingestion transformation pipelines (Dataflows Gen2, Notebooks), establishing modelling standards for Gold Layer semantic models, performance optimization, lineage/observability, governance, RBAC, security, data retention. Team Leading / Delivery: setting standards, directing / mentoring the team, reviewing designs, unblocking delivery. Planning / coordinating internal squads and external suppliers, managing risks/issues meeting milestones. Stakeholder Management: engaging with product owners, analysts tech leads, progress/risk reporting. Multi-source Integration: coordinating reliable ingestion orchestration, testing, test data preparation, reporting validation, release practices. Operational Readiness: ensuring documentation / run books non-functional requirements are met (security, resilience, performance). Short-Term Objective: baseline Gold Layer model components to enable consistent semantic models and reporting