Data Engineer

Overview

In this contract role, you will support a data transformation programme moving from a legacy data warehouse to a Microsoft Fabric environment. You’ll focus on the final migration steps, validate outputs, and fix data diffs to ready the Fabric setup for production. After go-live, you’ll help with post‑go‑live support and ongoing data pipelines to meet reporting needs. This position offers hybrid Edinburgh work and a competitive daily rate within Inside IR35, ideal for hands-on specialists who can accelerate the migration and enable reliable analytics.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working in Edinburgh
• competitive daily rate
• Inside IR35 contract

Responsibilities

• Participate in the final stages of migration from legacy data warehouse to Microsoft Fabric
• Test outputs and identify/debug data differences
• Apply remedial changes to ensure production readiness
• Support post go-live activities and ongoing development of data pipelines
• Build and maintain data pipelines to support data and reporting requirements across the business

Key requirements

• Microsoft Fabric experience on a real-world commercial project
• Strong Microsoft Synapse development experience
• Excellent PySpark and SQL skills
• Experience building and developing data pipelines
• Strong data testing, validation and debugging skills
• Experience working on data warehouse migrations or modernisation projects
• Power BI experience (beneficial)

• Microsoft Fabric
• Microsoft Synapse
• PySpark
• SQL
• data pipelines
• data testing/validation