Senior Data Engineer

I.T. & Communications
Midlothian
July 6, 2026
Permanent
Urgent

Job Description

Experis are partnering with an organisation who are undertaking a significant transformation and are seeing a Senior Data Engineer with strong Microsoft Fabric expertise to support the delivery of a modern data platform. This role is Inside IR35, and is for an initial 3 months (with the potential to extend past this date).

This is a hands on contract opportunity where you’ll be expected to make an immediate impact, designing and delivering production ready data solutions within a fast paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and Design end to end Data Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric
  • Develop scalable transformations using PySpark/SparkSQL/Notebooks
  • Structure data using Lakehouse/Warehouse modelling approaches
  • Implement data quality, validation, and monitoring controls
  • Optimise pipeline performance and execution reliability
  • Document data flows, transformations and dependencies

Required skills

  • Strong hands on experience with Microsoft Fabric (OR Databricks)
  • Advanced PySpark/Spark SQL
  • Strong Python and SQL/T SQL capability
  • Experience with Azure SQL/SQL Managed Instance
  • Proven Track record delivering end to end data pipelines in production

Desirable skills

  • Experience with Power BI/semantic layer integration
  • Exposure to Fabric Dataflows Gen2/notebooks
  • Experience migrating from legacy platforms
  • Data Governance / metadata tooling

This role will be based in Edinburgh (2-3 days a week on site). They are also open to individuals based in the wider Central Belt, however there will still be an expectation to visit the Edinburgh office 1x per week.

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