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# Lead Fabric Data Engineer

- **Company:** Robert Walters
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £130,000.0 - £143,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Information Engineering, Data Governance, DevOps, Data Flow Control, Github, Apache Hive, Role-Based Access Control, Power BI, Data Streaming, Data Ingestion, Delivery Pipeline, Git, Data Lakes, Pyspark, Star Schema, Graphql
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/gb/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-79ED8830051813E66E/

## About the Role

* Core Fabric Ecosystem: Proven, production-level experience with OneLake, Delta Lake, and Synapse Data Engineering.
 * Ingestion Pipelines: Deep knowledge of Fabric Data Factory, Dataflow Gen2, and Real Time Intelligence features.
 * Advanced Modeling: Expertise in building high-performance Direct Lake semantic models to eliminate Import/DirectQuery latency.
 * Enterprise DevOps: Strong experience with Fabric Git integration, deployment pipelines, and Microsoft Purview for data governance.
 * Languages: Advanced proficiency in PySpark/Spark SQL.

## Description

* Phase 1: Foundation & Governance: Set up Fabric workspaces, F-SKU capacity allocation, and Microsoft Purview RBAC security policies.
 * Phase 2: Ingestion & Streaming: Implement Copy Jobs, Dataflow Gen2, and Eventstreams for Real Time CDC ingestion into a Bronze Lakehouse.
 * Phase 3: Medallion Processing: Develop optimised PySpark/Spark SQL Notebooks transforming data from Bronze to Silver (conformed) and Gold (business aggregates) Delta tables.
 * Phase 4: Serving Layer: Model Star/Snowflake schemas, optimising Direct Lake mode for Power BI and deploying GraphQL endpoints.
 * Phase 5: DevOps: Connect Fabric development environments to production via automated Azure DevOps/GitHub release pipelines.