Job Description

Role - Lead Data Engineer [Enterprise Data Platform (Microsoft Fabric)]

Work Location - London (2 days/week)

Client: Mastek

End-client: Confidential (Will be informed at the time of the interview)

Contract Inside IR35

!!! Active SC Clearance Required !!!

Role skills & responsibilities:

Team leadership & delivery

: Set standards, direct engineers, review designs, unblock delivery, mentor the team; plan and coordinate across internal squads and suppliers; manage risks/issues to meet EDP milestones.

Stakeholder coordination

: Engage effectively with product owners, analysts and technology leads;

report progress and risks to senior stakeholders and the SRO

with concise status updates and decisions.

Technical leadership

: Own EDP architecture on

Microsoft Fabric

(Lakehouse/Warehouse patterns, OneLake organization); define and implement ingestion and transformation pipelines (

Dataflows

Gen2, Notebooks); establish modelling standards for the

gold layer and semantic models

; performance/cost optimization; lineage/observability; governance (RBAC/security, data retention).

Multi?source integration

: Coordinate reliable ingestion/orchestration, testing and release practices.

Operational readiness:

Ensure documentation/run?books and non?functional requirements (security, resilience, performance) are met.

Current EDP milestone - Gold?layer modelling (context for urgency)

Country/facility risk parameter processing progressing; initial gold?layer documentation produced.

Bi?weekly Golden Layer review

cadence in place;

test data preparation

underway for report validation. Target outcome:

baseline gold?layer model components

to enable consistent semantic models and reporting.
Job Type: Temporary
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: 425.00-500.00 per day

Application question(s):

Do you have Active SC Clearance ?? (Need Active SC Candidates ONLY)
Experience:

Data Engineering: 7 years (required)
Work authorisation:

United Kingdom (preferred)
Willingness to travel:

* 50% (preferred)