Data Engineering Lead
Summary
Three-month (extendable, inside IR35) contract for a Data Engineering Lead based in Cambridge, hybrid with three days onsite, paying £500–600/day. Day to day: hands-on technical leadership of an established Microsoft Fabric data platform — pipelines, Lakehouse, SQL modelling, governance — reviewing work from internal and offshore engineers.
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements:- Strong, hands-on Microsoft Fabric experience, including Lakehouse architecture, data pipelines, transformations and production environments
- Proven experience as a Data Engineering Lead, Technical Lead or hands-on Data Architect, providing technical oversight to engineering teams
- Strong SQL skills, data modelling expertise and experience integrating data from multiple enterprise systems
- Practical experience with development lifecycle management, testing and production deployment
- Experience establishing engineering standards, improving documentation and implementing data governance practices
- Ability to review technical solutions, challenge engineering approaches and guide other developers
- Exposure to Power BI and enterprise ERP environments is beneficial
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across an existing Microsoft Fabric data engineering environment
- Review, troubleshoot and optimise Fabric Lakehouse solutions, data pipelines, transformations and associated engineering processes
- Oversee data integration, transformation, modelling and quality across multiple data sources
- Improve development, testing and deployment processes so solutions can be reliably transitioned into production
- Review and challenge technical work delivered by internal and offshore engineering resources
- Establish consistent standards for documentation, data governance and engineering best practices
- Identify and resolve technical issues affecting the reliability and performance of existing data solutions
- Take responsibility for the day-to-day technical direction of the data engineering environment, working closely with internal stakeholders and external delivery resources
- Improve the reliability of existing data pipelines, strengthen development standards and ensure solutions are maintainable and production-ready
- Architect
- ERP
- Fabric
- Power BI
- SQL
- LESS
More:
We have partnered with an established organisation seeking a Data Engineering Lead to provide technical leadership and oversight of its existing data engineering function. The organisation has invested in Microsoft Fabric and has an established data platform supporting wider reporting capabilities. The role focuses on technical detail, resolving problems and ensuring solutions are robust, well-documented and consistently delivered, rather than high-level strategy. This is an initial three-month contract with a view to extension, based in Cambridge with three days per week onsite. The rate is £500–£600 per day, and the role is inside IR35.
last updated 43 week of 2026