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# Head of Data Engineering - Microsoft Fabric - Contract

- **Company:** Careerwise
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £130,662.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Governance, DevOps, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce.Com, SQL Databases, Apache Spark, Git, Microsoft Fabric, Workday
- **Published:** August 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5840381051

## About the Role

* 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.

## 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.


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