Data Analytics Engineer - Azure, Fabric, SQL, PySpark/Python

Data Analytics Engineer - Azure, Fabric, SQL, PySpark/Python

Contract (Temp to Perm)

Start date: ASAP Contract length: 3 months initial (with potential to convert to permanent) Location: Fully remote (occasional travel to Flintshire and London may be required) Rate: Up to £700 per day (Umbrella)

Overview

We are looking for an experienced Data Analytics Engineer to join a growing Data Centre of Excellence on an initial contract, with the possibility of moving into a permanent role once the contract period concludes.

This is a founding-style position where you'll help establish scalable analytics foundations, enabling consistent, high-quality insight delivery across the business.

You'll work closely with insight analysts and technology teams to create reusable metrics, robust semantic models, and business-ready datasets within a modern data platform environment (Microsoft Fabric).

What the Data Analytics Engineer will be doing

• Building and optimising semantic models (star schemas, measures, calculation patterns)
• Creating and maintaining a reusable KPI and metrics library with clear definitions and ownership
• Delivering business-ready "gold" datasets aligned to medallion architecture principles
• Defining analytics engineering standards and ways of working (coding standards, documentation, testing, release practices)
• Establishing data contracts, versioning, and change control
• Partnering with data engineers to ensure data availability, reliability, and performance
• Enabling analysts through templates, exemplars, and best-practice guidance

Skills & experience for the Data Analytics Engineer

• Analytics or BI engineering background
• Advanced SQL with proven semantic modelling experience
• Understanding of dimensional modelling and star schemas
• Experience working with modern data architectures (lakehouse/medallion concepts)
• Comfortable operating in pre-production environments and setting standards in a greenfield context
• Microsoft Fabric experience (Lakehouse/Warehouse, pipelines, notebooks, semantic models) and Azure
• PySpark/Python exposure
• Experience in commercial, supply chain, or manufacturing domains (healthcare a plus)
• Previous experience with Snowflake is desirable

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

• Analytics or BI engineering background
• Advanced SQL with proven semantic modelling experience
• Understanding of dimensional modelling and star schemas
• Experience working with modern data architectures (lakehouse/medallion concepts)
• Comfortable operating in pre-production environments and setting standards in a greenfield context
• Microsoft Fabric experience (Lakehouse/Warehouse, pipelines, notebooks, semantic models) and Azure
• PySpark/Python exposure
• Experience in commercial, supply chain, or manufacturing domains (healthcare a plus)
• Previous experience with Snowflake is desirable