Head of Data Engineering

Location: London

Contract: 9 months

Day Rate: £575/day

Work Mode: Hybrid -2days in office

I'm currently looking for an experienced Head of Data Engineering/Data Engineering Leader to lead an enterprise data engineering function and drive the delivery and operationalisation of a modern Microsoft Fabric data platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise Microsoft Fabric data engineering strategy and roadmap

• Drive implementation across OneLake, Lakehouses, Warehouses, Pipelines, Dataflows Gen2 and Spark

• Establish modern medallion architecture – Bronze, Silver & Gold

• Lead data engineering teams across development, testing, release and operations

• Implement CI/CD, Git/source control and DevOps practices

• Drive data governance, security, lineage and access controls

• Optimise Fabric workloads, performance and capacity/cost management

• Integrate data from multiple enterprise platforms and SaaS applications

• Establish sustainable BAU operating models, engineering cadence and ways of working

• Support knowledge transfer and ensure a smooth transition into the established operating model

What We're Looking For

• Senior-level Data Engineering/Data Platform leadership experience
• Strong Microsoft Fabric implementation experience
• Excellent Azure/cloud data engineering background
• Experience leading engineering teams and technical delivery
• Strong understanding of data architecture, modelling, and modern lakehouse patterns
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD and production platform operations
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience establishing or transitioning data platforms into BAU

Technology Environment:

Microsoft Fabric | OneLake | Lakehouse | Data Warehouse | Data Pipelines | Dataflows Gen2 | Spark/PySpark | KQL | Power BI | Microsoft Purview | Entra ID | Azure | Git | CI/CD

Experience integrating enterprise applications such as Salesforce, ERP, HR, Finance and other SaaS platforms would be highly beneficial.