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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Data Platform Engineer - **Company:** HireQ Talent - **Location:** UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £130,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Software as a Service, Databases, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Data Integration, Data Systems, Data Warehousing, Dimensional Modeling, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Power BI, Software Engineering, Data Strategy, Git, Microsoft Fabric, Pyspark, Kubernetes, Data Management, Software Version Control, Data Pipelines - **Published:** September 15, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2879178120-senior-data-platform-engineer ## About the Role You'll likely bring: Significant experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, or a similar role Experience designing and delivering modern cloud-based data platforms Strong expertise with Microsoft Fabric, including several of the following: * OneLake * Fabric Lakehouse * Fabric Warehouse * Data Factory * Notebooks * Power BI * Semantic Models * Dataflows Advanced SQL development skills Python and/or PySpark experience Strong understanding of dimensional modelling and data warehousing concepts Experience building enterprise-scale data integration and pipeline solutions Strong Power BI development expertise, including DAX optimisation and performance tuning Hands-on experience with Git, source control, CI/CD, and modern software engineering practices Strong knowledge of data governance, security, compliance, and data quality frameworks Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders HealthTech, healthcare, life sciences, or other regulated industry experience would be highly advantageous but is not essential. ## Description HireQ Talent is partnering with an innovative and rapidly growing Health Tech organisation that is transforming the way healthcare data is leveraged to improve patient outcomes. This is not a role maintaining legacy infrastructure or inheriting someone else's architecture. This is a rare opportunity to build and shape a modern enterprise data platform from the ground up. You'll play a pivotal role in creating the data foundations that enable healthcare professionals, business leaders, and technology teams to make faster, smarter, and more informed decisions across a highly regulated, data-intensive environment. As the Senior Data Platform Engineer, you'll own the evolution of a greenfield Microsoft Fabric ecosystem, influencing architecture, engineering standards, governance strategy, and the long-term direction of the organisation's data capability. If you're excited by ownership, modern cloud technologies, and the opportunity to make a genuine impact in Health Tech, we'd love to hear from you. What You'll Do Architect the Future of Healthcare Data * Design, build, and scale a modern Microsoft Fabric data platform * Own platform architecture across Lakehouse, warehouse, semantic, and analytics layers * Drive the transition from early-stage capability to enterprise-scale production environment * Make key technology decisions that balance performance, compliance, scalability, and future innovation * Partner with senior stakeholders to define the organisation's long-term data strategy Engineer Modern Data Solutions * Develop highly scalable and resilient data pipelines * Integrate data from healthcare systems, SaaS applications, APIs, databases, and operational platforms * Build ingestion, transformation, and orchestration frameworks using modern engineering principles * Implement monitoring, observability, and data quality controls to ensure trusted and reliable insights * Optimise platform performance to support growing data volumes and analytical demand Turn Data Into Better Decisions * Develop trusted semantic models and enterprise Power BI solutions * Create governed data products that enable self-service analytics across the business * Support executive reporting, operational intelligence, predictive analytics, and future AI initiatives * Establish consistent metrics, definitions, and reporting standards across the organisation * Help unlock the full value of healthcare data to improve business and patient outcomes Champion Engineering Excellence * Introduce CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and modern DevOps practices * Implement governance, security, privacy, and access controls aligned to healthcare regulations * Establish best practices for documentation, testing, deployment, and platform support * Mentor stakeholders and influence technical standards across the wider business * Shape the roadmap for a world-class data function ## Related Videos - [How a Small Team Shrank a Microsoft Monorepo by 94%](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1236-how-a-small-team-shrank-a-microsoft-monorepo-by-94) - [PySpark - Combining Machine Learning & Big Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/44-pyspark-combining-machine-learning-big-data) - [Beyond Dashboards: Fixing Text-to-SQL with Semantic RAG](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2036-beyond-dashboards-fixing-text-to-sql-with-semantic-rag) - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [Data Analytics with Microsoft Fabric: End-to-End Use Case with Data Agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1547-data-analytics-with-microsoft-fabric-end-to-end-use-case-with-data-agents) - [Data Science in Retail](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/586-data-science-in-retail) ## Related Articles - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk) - [Data Analyst Salary in the UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/278-data-analyst-salary-in-the-uk) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [The Fastest-Growing Tech Sectors to Look Out for in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/373-the-fastest-growing-tech-sectors-to-look-out-for-in-2025)