Fabric Engineer
No salary listed
Mid
London, UK
Hybrid
Data & AnalyticsData Engineering
About the job
Requirements
- Proven experience designing, installing, configuring, or supporting Microsoft Fabric solutions.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft Fabric capabilities, including OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Science, Real-Time Intelligence, and Power BI.
- Experience building data pipelines, data models, Lakehouse, or Warehouse solutions using Microsoft data technologies.
- Good knowledge of Power BI, semantic modelling, DAX, and reporting best practice.
- Understanding of data governance, security, access control, data quality, and data lifecycle management.
- Ability to troubleshoot data platform, refresh, integration, performance, and configuration issues.
- Experience working in Agile delivery teams and producing clear technical documentation.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Self-motivated and collaborative, with the ability to work across multiple client environments and delivery priorities.
- This role requires appropriate security clearance depending on client requirements; candidates must have or be willing to undergo clearance.
Responsibilities
- Design Microsoft Fabric solutions aligned to customer data strategies, business outcomes, and technical requirements.
- Install, configure, and set up Microsoft Fabric environments, including workspaces, capacities, security models, and tenant-level settings.
- Configure OneLake, Lakehouses, Warehouses, Dataflows, Pipelines, Notebooks, and semantic models for scalable data ingestion, transformation, and reporting.
- Develop data engineering patterns using Microsoft Fabric Data Factory, Data Engineering, and Data Warehouse capabilities.
- Support migration of existing data workloads from legacy platforms, Azure Synapse, SQL Server, Power BI, or other analytics environments into Microsoft Fabric.
- Apply best practices for performance, security, governance, cost control, and operational resilience.
- Produce technical documentation, including solution designs, configuration guides, deployment plans, and support handover materials.
- Work with architects, data engineers, analysts, and customer stakeholders to ensure Fabric solutions are practical, secure, and deliverable.
- Build and maintain data pipelines to ingest, transform, and publish data from structured and unstructured sources.
- Develop Lakehouse and Warehouse solutions for analytics, reporting, operational insight, and downstream data consumption.
- Create and optimise semantic models for Power BI reporting and self-service analytics.
- Configure data refresh, scheduling, monitoring, and alerting processes for reliable production services.
- Support integration with Azure services, Microsoft Purview, Power Platform, APIs, databases, and third-party applications.
- Optimise queries, workloads, storage structures, and data models to improve performance and reduce cost.
- Design solutions with appropriate data quality, lineage, access control, and governance controls.
- Configure Microsoft Fabric workspaces, permissions, deployment pipelines, capacity settings, and environment controls.
- Implement role-based access control, sensitivity labelling, data protection, and secure-by-design configuration patterns.
- Support governance and catalogue integration, including alignment with Microsoft Purview where required.
- Establish monitoring, logging, and operational support processes for Fabric workloads.
- Troubleshoot platform, pipeline, data modelling, refresh, connectivity, and performance issues.
- Support testing, release management, and transition into live service.
- Contribute to technical assurance reviews by identifying risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities.
- Maintain awareness of Microsoft Fabric product updates, licensing changes, and emerging best practice.
- Work with delivery teams, architects, business analysts, and customer stakeholders to translate requirements into working Fabric solutions.
- Support pre-sales and discovery activity by providing technical input, estimates, and solution options where required.
- Contribute reusable Methods assets, accelerators, templates, and delivery standards for Microsoft Fabric.
- Share knowledge with colleagues and support development of Methods' wider data, analytics, and Microsoft capability.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Azure data services such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure SQL, Data Lake Storage, or Databricks.
- Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate.
- Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or equivalent.
- Agile Practitioner, Scrum Master, PRINCE2, or equivalent delivery qualification.
About the company
Methods Business and Digital Technology helps UK public sector organisations upgrade their services with digital transformation. It partners with central government departments and agencies to move from old, siloed legacy infrastructure to a platform-based operating model, keeping costs low while improving front-end public services for citizens. The company provides specialist skills and deep public-sector expertise to transform operations, reduce reliance on expensive suppliers, and strengthen control over customer relationships and operating models. Its goal is to safeguard public-facing services, apply digital thinking to keep services citizen-centered, and deliver real savings and benefits for government and society.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
1990
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Methods retained IriusRisk capabilities, and DESNZ awarded £1.9 million in May 2026.
- Digital Outcomes 7 launched 31 March 2026, opening new public-sector digital delivery demand.
- Methods still reports active hiring in 2026, including architect and Salesforce roles across delivery workstreams.
What critics are saying
- ALTEN owns Methods since 2022, so integration pressure can flatten Methods' autonomy quickly.
- A director left on 31 December 2025, signaling leadership churn during portfolio transition.
- DOS 7 consolidates buying power; incumbent competitors like Accenture and Capgemini will attack renewals in 2026.
What makes Methods Business and Digital Technology unique
- Methods won DOS 7 and RM6285, keeping deep Whitehall procurement access through 2027.
- Methods serves every UK central government department, plus blue-light, justice, and arms-length bodies.
- IriusRisk partnership gives Methods embedded threat modeling, strengthening DevSecOps bids for public services.
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Benefits
- Remote Work Options
- Flexible Work Hours
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Travel Insurance
- Parental Leave
- Professional Development Budget
- Wellness Program
- Performance Bonus
- Commuter Benefits