Data Engineer

We are seeking an experienced, skilled and motivated Fabric Data Engineer to join our growing Data & Insight team within a leading law firm. This role will play a critical part in designing, building, and maintaining modern data solutions using Microsoft Fabric, supporting firm-wide analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision-making.

You will work closely with the Firm's data architect, data analysts, business stakeholders, reporting teams and other IT teams to deliver robust, scalable data pipelines and models, ensuring high levels of data quality, governance, and performance in a regulated legal environment.

The data team are evolving beyond our traditional role as a reporting function to become a strategic enabler of data across the firm. This next phase focuses on leveraging data more broadly to inform decision-making, drive business insight, and empower teams with greater autonomy. As part of this transformation, we are building capability to ensure data is not only accessible but actively supports the Firm's strategic objectives and day-to-day operations., * Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and workflows in Microsoft Fabric (including Data Factory, Notebook, Lakehouse, and Warehouse components)

• Migrate existing on premise and cloud based data architecture into modern Fabric equivalents to remediate technical debt
• Build and optimise data models to support reporting and analytics use cases across legal, finance, people and other operational domains
• Integrate data from a variety of sources (case management systems, finance systems, CRM platforms and other legal tools)
• Implement ELT/ETL processes ensuring data quality, consistency, and performance through all medallion architecture layers
• Collaborate with data analysts and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable data solutions
• Collaborate with data architects to ensure solution scalability and technological appropriateness.
• Apply modern CI/CD techniques to data product delivery
• Support and enhance the firm's enterprise data architecture ambitions
• Monitor and troubleshoot pipeline performance, data issues, and system reliability
• Apply best practices in data governance, security, and compliance, particularly in relation to sensitive legal data
• Contribute to documentation, standards, and continuous improvement of the data platform
• Stay up to date with Microsoft Fabric capabilities and recommend enhancements where appropriate

Do you have experience in SQL?, This is an excellent opportunity for a mid-level engineer with hands-on Fabric experience looking to expand their impact in a professional services setting., * Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric (Data Factory, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Power BI integration, Notebooks)

• Proven experience in a data engineering role (typically 2-5 years)
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational and analytical data models
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines / ETL or ELT workflows
• Familiarity with Azure data services and cloud-based architectures
• Understanding of data governance, data quality, and security principles
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Desirable

• Experience with Python (PySpark) and SQL in Microsoft Fabric notebooks
• Experience with CI/CD for data pipelines
• Experience working in a law firm or professional services environment
• Knowledge of legal systems (e.g. Intapp, Elite 3E, VisualFiles)
• Understanding of data privacy regulations (e.g. GDPR)
• Agile, practical and flexible approach to delivery

About DAC Beachcroft We are a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We are market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients - from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK's top-five housebuilders. We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Bogota, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Lima, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome, Santiago de Chile, and Singapore plus a representative office in Miami and broad network of affiliations across the globe. At DAC Beachcroft we are committed to and recognise the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion across the board, including and beyond the protected characteristics. We take decisions based solely on merit. We value, welcome and seek out people with different backgrounds and life experiences, perspectives, beliefs, ways of thinking and identities. We are happy to talk flexible working with our Flex Forward scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further., DAC Beachcroft manages all vacancies via our in-house recruitment teams, prioritising direct sourcing and referrals. When external support is required, roles are released to selected agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL).