Data Engineer Consultant Senior

5 Years as a Data Engineer Consultant Senior you will design build and support modern data and analytics solutions for clients. Working with solution architects principal consultants and multidisciplinary delivery teams. You will translate business needs into secure scalable maintainable and supportable Microsoft Fabric and Azure solutions. You will take ownership of substantial engineering workstreams from design through deployment and production support while mentoring colleagues and promoting good engineering practice. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Translate business requirements into technical designs delivery estimates implementation tasks and acceptance criteria. 

• Design build and support Microsoft Fabric solutions using appropriate lakehouse warehouse orchestration and semantic-modelling patterns. 

• Develop robust ingestion ETL/ELT and integration pipelines using SQL Python or PySpark as appropriate. 

• Design and maintain dimensional and analytical data models including star schemas facts dimensions and Power BI semantic models. 

• Implement automated data-quality validation reconciliation and schema-change controls. 

• Contribute to architecture decisions and lead detailed design sessions for assigned components or workstreams. 

• Apply security and governance controls including least privilege classification lineage metadata retention and auditability. 

• Use source control peer review automated testing CI/CD and repeatable deployment practices. 

• Create and maintain technical documentation including data flows architecture views configuration support procedures and runbooks. 

• Estimate and plan engineering work manage dependencies and communicate delivery risks within Agile teams. 

• Support testing release monitoring troubleshooting incident investigation and continuous improvement in production. 

• Mentor junior engineers review technical work and promote reusable patterns and engineering standards. 

• Communicate solution options progress risks and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders. 

Qualifications :

Essential 

• Demonstrable hands-on experience delivering data engineering solutions using Microsoft Fabric. 

• Strong SQL development troubleshooting and performance-optimisation skills. 

• Practical experience with Python or PySpark notebooks and distributed data-processing concepts. 

• Experience building and operating ETL/ELT pipelines and integrating cloud on-premises or third-party data sources. 

• Experience with Fabric lakehouse and warehouse patterns orchestration OneLake concepts and Power BI semantic models including Direct Lake where appropriate. 

• Experience with data warehouses data lakes and Azure data services such as Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Data Factory. 

• Strong knowledge of dimensional modelling analytical structures and data-modelling trade-offs. 

• Experience implementing unit integration reconciliation and regression testing for data solutions. 

• Experience with Git pull requests source control CI/CD and automated deployment practices. 

• Knowledge of security data governance lineage metadata retention and privacy-aware design. 

• Experience with observability logging alerting failure recovery and production support. 

• Experience owning a substantial technical workstream and working effectively in Agile delivery environments. 

• Strong written and verbal communication stakeholder engagement and technical documentation skills. 

• Experience mentoring colleagues and conducting constructive design or code reviews. 

Desirable 

• Microsoft Fabric certification or actively working towards certification. 

• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID managed identities Key Vault Azure Monitor or Log Analytics. 

• Experience with infrastructure as code reusable deployment templates or environment-management automation. 

• Exposure to data science advanced analytics AI or machine-learning delivery. 

• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot and/or Claude in line with organisational controls. 

• Experience in a client-facing consultancy or delivery environment. 

Success Criteria 

• Independently delivers complex components and workstreams to an agreed level of quality. 

• Identifies technical risks early and escalates architectural decisions with clear options and evidence. 

• Produces solutions that are testable observable secure maintainable and ready for operational support. 

• Raises team capability through mentoring review and practical engineering leadership. 

Additional Information :

Why Version 1 

At Version 1 we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing professional growth and financial stability. 

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme where employees collectivelybenefitfrom a share of our companys profits 

• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme 

• Flexible/remote working Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and peoples individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance 

• Financial Wellbeing initiativesincluding;Pension Private Healthcare Cover Life Assurance Financialadviceand an Employee Discount scheme 

• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts Bike to Work Fitness classes Mindfulness Workshops Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance enhanced maternity/paternity leave marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies 

• Educationalassistance incentivised certifications and accreditations including AWS Microsoft Oracle and Red Hat 

• Reward schemes including Version 1s Annual Excellence Awards & Call-Out platform. 

• Environment Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity inclusion and belonging schemes. 

And many more exciting benefits drop us a note to find out more. 

Version1 is an equal opportunities employer. 

We are committed to building a diverseinclusiveand respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds identities and lived experiences and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity. 

We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process please contact your recruiter at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefullyrespectfullyand confidentially. 

Video links: 

Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time