Data Engineer (FTC)

at  Native

Location: Shoreditch, London (2-3 days in office)
Contract Duration: 3-6 months
Day Rate: Up to £550 per day (Outside IR35)

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE:

• Strong expertise with the Microsoft Fabric Stack, incl. Synapse
• Experience in deploying and managing PowerBI across various user groups
• dbt experience for data modelling
• Familiarity with Google BigQuery and transitioning from non-Microsoft ecosystems

ROLE OVERVIEW:

We are seeking a PowerBI/Fabric Data Engineer to execute on some of the more technical aspects of the migration of our data infrastructure from a Google BigQuery ‘lake’ + Google sheets into the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem. You will create a SQL-first experience for managing and optimising data within our warehouse and will play a key role in rolling out PowerBI reporting across the business. You’ll be responsible for introducing dbt for data modelling and implementing best practices across the data stack.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Data Infrastructure & Migration: Lead the transition from Google BigQuery into Microsoft Fabric (Azure) with a focus on ingestion, data modelling, and reporting.
• PowerBI Deployment: Build and implement PowerBI reporting solutions, ensuring user-friendly access for both expert and non-expert stakeholders, establishing folder structures, reporting templates, and best practices.
• Best Practices Implementation: Define and enforce best practices for data ingestion, star/snowflake schema design, data validation and testing, etc. Depending on your breadth of experience / as a bonus, you’ll also provide some support on establishing best practices at the BI / visualisation layer too
• Team Mentorship: Support / mentor a small team of 3-4 people working on KPI reporting, ad-hoc requests, and exploratory data analysis, again depending on experience