Data Engineer

Description

Data Engineer (Pharma Background Essential)

£550 per day - INSIDE IR35

6 Months

Hybrid - 1 day per week in London

Role Purpose

We are currently looking for a Data Engineer to be responsible for designing, building and maintaining our clients data pipelines and platform infrastructure on Microsoft Fabric. Operating within a consulting model, this role deploys across engagements of varying scope and duration, delivering production-grade data solutions that meet client requirements.

Required Skills and Experience

Expereince of working within the pharma/lifesciences sector.

Demonstrable experience building data pipelines in production environments.

Proficiency with Microsoft Fabric, including Data Factory, lakehouses, warehouses, notebooks and semantic models.

Strong skills in PySpark, Spark SQL and T-SQL for data transformation.

Experience with medallion architecture or equivalent layered data processing patterns.

Working knowledge of OneLake, delta tables and Fabric capacity management.

Proficiency with version control (Git) and CI/CD practices for data platform assets.

Understanding of data governance principles, including cataloguing, lineage and access control.

Experience working in a consulting, professional services or client-facing delivery environment.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences

Desirable Skills

Experience with Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Synapse Analytics or Azure Data Factory prior to Fabric migration.

Familiarity with Microsoft Purview for data governance and compliance.

Exposure to Power BI semantic models and report development within Fabric.

Experience with event-driven architectures using Azure Event Hubs or Kafka. xjnqpsq

Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Bicep for Azure resource provisioning.

DP-600 (Fabric Analytics Engineer) certification or equivalent Microsoft certifications

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