Senior Data Engineer - Fabric, Synapse, AI, Financial Services

We're investing heavily in Microsoft Fabric, Azure and AI technologies as we transform our enterprise data platform, and we're looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to help lead that journey.

This is an opportunity to work on business-critical platforms that support investment operations, regulatory reporting, client insight and business intelligence within a highly governed Financial Services environment.

If you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges, influencing technical direction and building scalable cloud data platforms that meet the highest standards of governance, security and repeatability, we'd love to hear from you.

The Opportunity

Joining a collaborative and highly skilled data engineering team, you'll play a key role in designing, building and evolving our Azure-native data platform.

Working closely with architects, developers and business stakeholders, you'll help deliver secure, scalable and resilient data solutions while contributing to engineering standards, mentoring colleagues and influencing the future direction of our Microsoft data platform.

You'll also help integrate emerging AI capabilities into the platform, enabling more intelligent analytics, automation and data-driven decision making across the business.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing and developing enterprise-scale data solutions using Microsoft Fabric
• Building modern Lakehouse and Warehouse solutions within Fabric
• Developing Azure Synapse Analytics solutions
• Creating scalable ETL and ELT pipelines
• Developing Power BI semantic models and supporting reporting solutions
• Engineering robust Azure Data Factory integrations
• Building secure Azure Data Lake solutions
• Working with SQL Server and advanced SQL development
• Delivering API integrations across internal and third-party systems
• Supporting Azure DevOps and CI/CD delivery pipelines
• Contributing to data governance, engineering standards and platform best practice
• Supporting the adoption of AI technologies across the enterprise data platform

Essential Experience

To be successful in this role you'll need previous experience working within Financial Services, Wealth Management, Banking or another regulated financial environment.

You'll understand how enterprise data platforms are engineered within organisations where governance, compliance, auditability and repeatable engineering practices are fundamental.

You'll also bring strong experience across:

• Microsoft Fabric (essential)
• Azure Synapse Analytics (essential)
• Power BI
• Azure Data Factory
• Azure Data Lake
• SQL Server
• ETL / ELT development
• Azure DevOps
• Git
• Enterprise cloud data engineering

AI Experience

We're looking for engineers who have already begun applying AI capabilities within enterprise data platforms.

This could include experience with technologies such as:

• Azure AI Foundry
• Azure OpenAI
• Microsoft Copilot
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• AI-powered analytics
• Intelligent automation
• Machine Learning services

You don't need to be an AI specialist, but you'll be able to demonstrate practical exposure to AI technologies and understand how they can enhance enterprise data engineering.

Why Join Us?

This isn't simply another Azure Data Engineering role.

You'll be joining at a pivotal point in our technology transformation where you'll help shape the future architecture of our Microsoft Fabric platform while influencing engineering standards across the organisation.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Lead adoption of Microsoft Fabric
• Build enterprise-scale cloud data platforms
• Work with emerging AI technologies
• Mentor and support other engineers
• Influence technical architecture
• Deliver solutions that directly support a leading Wealth Management business

What You'll Receive

• £65,000 - £75,000 salary
• 10% annual bonus
• 7% employer pension contribution
• Private Medical Insurance
• Income Protection
• Hybrid working
• Ongoing investment in Microsoft Fabric, Azure and AI
• Genuine career progression
• Collaborative engineering culture

If you're an experienced Senior Data Engineer with strong Microsoft Fabric expertise, Financial Services experience and a passion for building governed, enterprise-scale cloud data platforms, we'd love to hear from you.