Fabric Engineer

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.