Head of Data Engineering - Microsoft Fabric - Contract

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London, UK
22 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
£130,662.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Microsoft Azure Continuous Integration Information Engineering Data Governance DevOps Microsoft Dynamics Salesforce.Com SQL Databases Apache Spark Git Microsoft Fabric Workday

Job description

We are looking for a senior Head of Data Engineering to lead the development of a new enterprise data engineering capability using Microsoft Fabric., * Lead data engineering teams across Development, Testing, Release and Platform Operations.

  • Own the Microsoft Fabric data engineering strategy and roadmap.
  • Design and oversee OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Pipelines and Spark solutions.
  • Establish data governance, security, CI/CD and engineering standards.
  • Work across enterprise platforms including Salesforce, Certinia, Workday and Dynamics 365 F&O.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentor the engineering team.

Requirements

  • Strong senior-level Data Engineering leadership experience.
  • Deep hands-on Microsoft Fabric experience.
  • OneLake, Lakehouse, Pipelines, Dataflows Gen2 and Spark.
  • Data modelling and medallion architecture.
  • Azure, SQL, Git/CI/CD and DevOps.
  • Strong stakeholder and team leadership skills.

Benefits & conditions

6-month contract £675/day Outside IR35 London Area Hybrid - 2 days from office

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