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# Senior Data Engineer

- **Company:** Raynor Foods
- **Location:** Chelmsford, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £75,000.0 - £85,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Business Analytics Applications, Microsoft Azure, Business Systems, Continuous Integration, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Warehousing, Machine Learning, Power BI, Systems Integration, Transact-SQL, Enterprise Data Management, Sql Optimization, Apache Spark, Data Strategy, Microsoft Fabric, Pyspark, Real Time Data, Data Management, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** July 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5794378730

## About the Role

You'll be an experienced Data Engineer or Data Platform professional who enjoys combining hands-on technical expertise with strategic thinking.
Essential Skills & Experience * Strong Microsoft Fabric expertise (Lakehouse, Warehouse, Pipelines, Notebooks) * OneLake architecture and management * Advanced SQL / T-SQL * PySpark and Spark optimisation * Data warehousing, modelling and ETL/ELT development * Power BI semantic modelling * Experience delivering enterprise cloud data platforms * Experience integrating multiple business systems * Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills * Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
Desirable
Microsoft DP-700 Certification
Microsoft Purview
Azure DevOps and CI/CD
Manufacturing or FMCG experience
ERP, WMS or MES integrations
Azure AI Foundry
Data Science or Machine Learning exposure

## Description

Raynor Foods is one of the UK's leading food-to-go manufacturers, supplying healthcare, travel, workplace and retail customers nationwide. We are investing heavily in technology, data and AI, and we're looking for an exceptional Senior Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer to lead the development of our next-generation enterprise data platform.
This is a rare opportunity to join a successful, employee-owned business and build a greenfield Microsoft Fabric environment from the ground up. You'll take ownership of our data strategy, architecture and platform, creating a single source of truth that powers reporting, analytics, AI and business decision-making across the organisation.
If you're excited by Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, AI and solving complex data challenges at scale, we'd love to hear from you.
What You'll Be Doing
You'll lead the design, implementation and ongoing development of a modern Microsoft Fabric ecosystem, bringing together data from manufacturing, finance, HR, transport, warehousing and customer systems into a secure, scalable and high-performing environment.
Key responsibilities include: * Designing and building enterprise-scale Microsoft Fabric solutions * Creating Lakehouses, Data Warehouses and Semantic Models * Developing robust ETL/ELT pipelines and real-time data integrations * Designing and managing the OneLake architecture * Establishing data governance, security and access controls * Supporting Power BI, self-service analytics and Direct Lake solutions * Preparing enterprise data for AI, Copilot and future data science initiatives


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