Data Warehouse Specialist

🚀 Contractor Opportunity : Microsoft Fabric BI Implementation Lead

12-Month Contract | Outside IR35 | £600–£700 / day

Remote - UK & occasional European travel

An exciting opportunity for a senior Business Intelligence contractor to play a pivotal role in a greenfield Microsoft Fabric implementation, replacing a legacy on-premise SQL data warehouse across a multi-country European organisation.

This is a high-impact, advisory-led role for someone who understands Azure and Fabric deeply, can confidently challenge vendors, and acts as the technical translator between delivery partners, internal BI teams, and non-technical stakeholders.

🔍 The Assignment

You’ll join a lean, capable BI & IT function as a trusted technical authority, supporting the migration from an on-prem SQL environment to Microsoft Fabric. Acting as the bridge between delivery partners and internal teams, your focus will be on technical assurance, governance, integration, and long-term sustainability rather than day-to-day coding.

This programme will roll out across six European affiliates plus the UK, each operating with a degree of autonomy - making stakeholder management, clarity of communication, and project drive absolutely critical.

💡 What You’ll Be Doing

• Provide technical direction and oversight for the migration to Microsoft Fabric
• Act as the technical conscience of the programme - reviewing architecture, data models, pipelines, and design decisions
• Support development of data pipelines, Fabric workloads, and Power BI integration
• Validate ETL / ELT processes, migrated datasets, and performance optimisation approaches
• Ensure data governance, security, privacy, and quality standards are embedded from day one
• Confidently challenge vendors, call out risks, and keep delivery honest and aligned to business needs
• Translate complex Azure / Fabric concepts into clear, practical language for affiliates and senior stakeholders
• Drive knowledge transfer, documentation, and internal upskilling to reduce long-term vendor dependency

🧠 What We’re Looking For

Non-negotiables

Highly Valued

🤝 The Environment

📍 Logistics

If you’re a Fabric-savvy BI contractor who enjoys advising the business, challenging assumptions, and keeping complex programmes honest, this is a rare opportunity to make a lasting impact.