Data Engineer (SC Cleared)

City of Westminster
2 months ago
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6 Month Contract

£500/day (Inside IR35)

Data Engineer needed with active SC Security Clearance and Microsoft Fabric enterprise data platform expertise. 6 Month Contract based in London (Hybrid).

Paying £500/day (Inside IR35). Start ASAP in Feb/March 2026.

Hybrid Working - 3 days/week remote (WFH), and 2 days/week working on-site from the office in Central London.

A chance to work with a leading global IT and Digital transformation business specialising in Government projects:

Key experience + tasks will include:

Technical Leadership: owning Microsoft Fabric architecture including: Lakehouse, OneLake organization, Warehouse patterns, Gold Layer modelling, defining / implementing ingestion + transformation pipelines (Dataflows Gen2, Notebooks), establishing modelling standards for Gold Layer + semantic models, performance optimization, lineage/observability, governance, RBAC, security, data retention.

Team Leading / Delivery: setting standards, directing / mentoring the team, reviewing designs, unblocking delivery.

Planning / coordinating internal squads and external suppliers, managing risks/issues + meeting milestones.

Stakeholder Management: engaging with product owners, analysts + tech leads, progress/risk reporting.

Multi-source Integration: coordinating reliable ingestion + orchestration, testing, test data preparation, reporting validation, release practices.

Operational Readiness: ensuring documentation / run books + non-functional requirements are met (security, resilience, performance).

Short-Term Objective: baseline Gold Layer model components to enable consistent semantic models and reporting.

Active SC Clearance is essential for this project

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