IO Associates
Microsoft Fabric Architect - SME
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IO Associates
Microsoft Fabric Architect - SME
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UK
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Description

We are supporting a high-profile organisation on a greenfield Microsoft Fabric initiative and are looking for an experienced Fabric Architect to lead the end-to-end platform design. This is a unique opportunity to shape the architecture, governance, and delivery of a brand-new Fabric data platform from the ground up.

If you have delivered Microsoft Fabric solutions at an architectural level, defining Lakehouse structures, medallion models, and analytics-ready datasets, this opportunity is for you.

Location: Remote (UK)
Day Rate: Negotiable
Contract: Short-term engagement with potential for extension

Key Responsibilities / Experience Required:

  • Designing a greenfield Microsoft Fabric platform, including Lakehouse, Bronze, Silver and Gold layers, and reporting structures
  • Defining data ingestion and transformation architecture across multiple sources such as CRM, CMS, SaaS platforms, and GA4
  • Designing Fabric Data Factory pipelines and Spark notebooks for scalable ETL/ELT
  • Establishing data modelling standards for Silver and Gold (Medallion) layers
  • Preparing Power BI-ready datasets with clear fact and dimension schemas
  • Providing technical governance guidance, ensuring scalability, maintainability and PII compliance
  • Advising on best practices for Fabric, Synapse and Databricks integration

Strongly Preferred:

  • Experience in Azure data services, including ADF, ADLS and Azure SQL
  • Proven experience integrating web analytics, CRM and CMS data at a platform level
  • Familiarity with data governance frameworks and enterprise data architecture principles

Nice to Have:

  • Experience with dbt (Core or Cloud)
  • Exposure to modern lakehouse ecosystems such as Databricks or Snowflake
  • Background in nonprofit or charity analytics (optional)

If you have architected Microsoft Fabric solutions from scratch and can define clean, scalable, enterprise-grade platforms, we would love to hear from you.

Please reply with your most up-to-date CV.

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IO Associates
Microsoft Fabric Architect - SME
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