Data Engineer / Senior Data Engineer
£440/day (DE) | £540/day (Senior DE) | Inside IR35 | BPSS Clearance Required
Hybrid – Morpeth (one day every other week)
Initial 3-month contract | Start ASAP
About the Role
Were looking for a Microsoft Fabric–focused Senior Data Engineer to join a public sector data transformation programme in the North East of England.
Youll be integrating contact centre platforms, CRM systems, and line-of-business applications into Microsoft Fabric, building bronze–silver–gold pipelines, and delivering Power BI reporting to support channel shift analysis and operational insight. As a Senior Consultant youll also provide an element of technical leadership, helping to guide and develop less experienced engineers within the delivery team.
Key responsibilities:
* Integrating contact centre platforms (including AWS Connect), CRM systems, and line-of-business applications into Microsoft Fabric
* Building robust bronze–silver–gold data pipelines, implementing data matching and quality rules
* Optimising Lakehouse and semantic models for Power BI reporting
* Developing intuitive Power BI dashboards, enabling analysts to unlock meaningful operational insights
* Supporting channel shift analysis and delivering actionable operational insight to stakeholders
* Providing technical leadership and mentoring less experienced engineers within the delivery team
* Contributing to shared data engineering standards and documentation
* Working collaboratively within agile delivery teams
* Managing stakeholder relationships effectively across a complex organisation
Skills & experience:
* 7+ years data engineering experience delivering integration, transformation, and visualisation solutions across complex organisations
* Expert-level Azure data engineering skills with cross-cloud AWS exposure
* Hands-on Microsoft Fabric experience — Lakehouse, Data Pipelines, Notebooks, and Semantic Models
* Proven experience integrating contact centre platforms (including AWS Connect) into Microsoft Fabric
* Experience integrating CRM systems and line-of-business applications into data platforms
* Bronze–silver–gold pipeline design, data matching, and quality rules implementation
* Power BI dashboard development — from data layer through to visualisation
* Ability to provide technical leadership and guide less experienced team members
* Excellent stakeholder management skills across complex organisational environments
* Comfortable working in agile delivery teams and contributing to engineering standards and documentation
* UK government or public sector experience preferred
Clearance & Compliance
• BPSS clearance required (or willingness to undergo screening)
• Inside IR35
Interested?
If you have strong Microsoft Fabric and Azure data engineering experience and are available at short notice, we’d love to hear from you. Please indicate in your application whether you are applying for the Data Engineer or Senior Data Engineer position. Apply now or get in touch for a confidential conversation.