About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and technically capable Microsoft Fabric Engineer to design, install, configure, and support Microsoft Fabric solutions for clients across public and private sectors. This role supports the delivery of modern data platforms, analytics services, and integrated data solutions, enabling customers to leverage Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, OneLake, Data Factory, Synapse Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, and Real-Time Intelligence capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Design Microsoft Fabric solutions aligned with customer data strategies, business outcomes, and technical requirements.
- Install, configure, and set up Microsoft Fabric environments, including workspaces, capacities, security models, and tenant-level settings.
- Configure OneLake, Lakehouses, Warehouses, Dataflows, Pipelines, Notebooks, and semantic models for scalable data ingestion, transformation, and reporting.
- Develop robust data engineering patterns using Microsoft Fabric Data Factory, Data Engineering, and Data Warehouse capabilities.
- Support the migration of existing data workloads from legacy platforms, Azure Synapse, SQL Server, Power BI, or other analytics environments into Microsoft Fabric.
- Apply best practices for performance, security, governance, cost control, and operational resilience.
- Produce high-quality technical documentation, including solution designs, configuration guides, deployment plans, and support handover materials.
- Collaborate with architects, data engineers, analysts, and customer stakeholders to ensure practical, secure, and deliverable Fabric solutions.
- Build and maintain data pipelines to ingest, transform, and publish data from various structured and unstructured sources.
- Develop Lakehouse and Warehouse solutions supporting analytics, reporting, operational insight, and downstream data consumption.
- Create and optimize semantic models for Power BI reporting and self-service analytics.
- Configure data refresh, scheduling, monitoring, and alerting processes for reliable production services.
- Support integration with Azure services, Microsoft Purview, Power Platform, APIs, databases, and third-party applications.
- Optimize queries, workloads, storage structures, and data models for improved performance and cost reduction.
- Ensure solutions are designed with appropriate data quality, lineage, access control, and governance controls.
- Configure Microsoft Fabric workspaces, permissions, deployment pipelines, capacity settings, and environment controls.
- Implement role-based access control, sensitivity labeling, data protection, and secure-by-design configuration patterns.
- Support governance and catalogue integration, including alignment with Microsoft Purview.
- Establish monitoring, logging, and operational support processes for Fabric workloads.
- Troubleshoot platform, pipeline, data modeling, refresh, connectivity, and performance issues.
- Support testing, release management, and transition into live service.
- Contribute to technical assurance reviews, identifying risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities.
- Maintain awareness of Microsoft Fabric product updates, licensing changes, and emerging best practices.
- Work collaboratively with delivery teams, architects, business analysts, and customer stakeholders to translate requirements into working Fabric solutions.
- Support pre-sales and discovery activity by providing technical input, estimates, and solution options.
- Contribute to reusable Methods assets, accelerators, templates, and delivery standards for Microsoft Fabric.
- Share knowledge with colleagues and support the development of Methods' wider data, analytics, and Microsoft capability.
Requirements
- Proven experience designing, installing, configuring, or supporting Microsoft Fabric solutions.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft Fabric capabilities, including OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Science, Real-Time Intelligence, and Power BI.
- Experience building data pipelines, data models, Lakehouse, or Warehouse solutions using Microsoft data technologies.
- Good knowledge of Power BI, semantic modeling, DAX, and reporting best practices.
- Experience with Azure data services such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure SQL, Data Lake Storage, or Databricks is advantageous.
- Understanding of data governance, security, access control, data quality, and data lifecycle management.
- Ability to troubleshoot data platform, refresh, integration, performance, and configuration issues.
- Experience working in Agile delivery teams.
- Ability to produce clear technical documentation.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Self-motivated, collaborative, and able to work across multiple client environments and delivery priorities.
- Must have, or be willing to undergo, appropriate security clearance depending on client requirements.
Skills
- Microsoft Fabric
- OneLake
- Lakehouse
- Warehouse
- Data Factory
- Data Engineering
- Data Science
- Real-Time Intelligence
- Power BI
- Semantic Modeling
- DAX
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure Synapse Analytics
- Azure SQL
- Data Lake Storage
- Databricks
- Data Governance
- Data Security
- Access Control
- Data Quality
- Data Lifecycle Management
- Agile Methodologies
- Technical Documentation
- Stakeholder Management
- Communication
Location
- UK-based
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced
Education Level
- Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or equivalent
- Agile Practitioner, Scrum Master, PRINCE2, or equivalent delivery qualification
Benefits
- Access to continuous learning
- Microsoft certification support
- Professional development
- LinkedIn Learning
- Management development programme
- Training
- 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
- Breakfast Tuesdays
- Thirsty Thursdays
- Pizza on the last Thursday of each month
- Commitment to charitable causes
- 25 days a year time off
- Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution
- Discretionary Company Bonus
- Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
- Private Medical Insurance (non-contributory, spouse and dependants included)
- Worldwide Travel Insurance (non-contributory, spouse and dependants included)
About the Company
- Methods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy partnering with central government departments, agencies, and commercial organisations to deliver meaningful digital transformation.
- Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, Methods combines expertise in transformation, delivery, technology, and collaboration to create people-centred solutions that deliver lasting value.
- Predominantly focused on the public sector, whilst continuing to expand its private sector presence, Methods combines deep consulting expertise with the capability and scale of the Alten Group, which acquired Methods in 2022.
