Fabric Engineer (Microsoft)

Methods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy that partners with central government departments, agencies, and commercial organisations to deliver meaningful digital transformation. Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we combine 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.

As part of our continued growth, we are seeking an experienced and technically capable Microsoft Fabric Engineers to design, install, configure and support Microsoft Fabric solutions for our clients across public and private sector environments.

This role will support the delivery of modern data platforms, analytics services and integrated data solutions, helping customers make better use of their data through Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, OneLake, Data Factory, Synapse Data Engineering, Data Warehousing and Real-Time Intelligence capabilities.

Requirements

The Microsoft Fabric Engineer carries out the following activities:

1. Microsoft Fabric Design & Implementation

· Design Microsoft Fabric solutions that align to 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 to support 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 practice across performance, security, governance, cost control and operational resilience.

· Produce high-quality technical documentation, including solution designs, configuration guides, deployment plans and support handover materials.

· Work closely with architects, data engineers, analysts and customer stakeholders to ensure Fabric solutions are practical, secure and deliverable.

2. Data Engineering, Integration & Analytics

· Build and maintain data pipelines to ingest, transform and publish data from a range of structured and unstructured sources.

· Develop Lakehouse and Warehouse solutions that support analytics, reporting, operational insight and downstream data consumption.

· Create and optimise semantic models to support Power BI reporting and self-service analytics.

· Configure data refresh, scheduling, monitoring and alerting processes to support reliable production services.

· Support integration with Azure services, Microsoft Purview, Power Platform, APIs, databases and third-party applications.

· Optimise queries, workloads, storage structures and data models to improve performance and reduce cost.

· Ensure solutions are designed with appropriate data quality, lineage, access control and governance controls.

3. Platform Configuration, Security & Governance

· Configure Microsoft Fabric workspaces, permissions, deployment pipelines, capacity settings and environment controls.

· Implement role-based access control, sensitivity labelling, data protection and secure-by-design configuration patterns.

· Support governance and catalogue integration, including alignment with Microsoft Purview where required.

· Establish monitoring, logging and operational support processes for Fabric workloads.

· Troubleshoot platform, pipeline, data modelling, 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 practice.

4. Collaboration & Capability Development

· 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 where required.

· 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.

Desirable Skills & Experience

· 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 modelling, DAX and reporting best practice.

· Experience with Azure data services such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure SQL, Data Lake Storage or Databricks would be 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 and producing 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.

Professional Qualifications (Desirable)

· 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, would be advantageous

· Agile Practitioner, Scrum Master, PRINCE2, or equivalent delivery qualification

Why Join Methods?

· Opportunity to design and deliver modern data and analytics solutions using Microsoft Fabric.

· Work alongside experienced consultants, architects, engineers and digital transformation specialists.

· Access to continuous learning, Microsoft certification support and professional development.

· Be part of a collaborative, people-centred organisation that values innovation, delivery excellence and long-term customer relationships.

· Contribute to the growth of Methods' Microsoft data, analytics and cloud capability across public and private sector clients.

This role will require you to have, or be willing to undergo, appropriate security clearance depending on client requirements.

Benefits

By joining us you can expect:

• Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
• Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
• Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership
• A supportive and collaborative environment.

As well as this, we offer:

• Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training
• Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
• Social – Breakfast Tuesdays, Thirsty Thursdays and Pizza on the last Thursday of each month as well as commitment to charitable causes
• Time off 25 days a year
• Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
• Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance
• Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
• Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
• Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)