Microsoft Fabric Architect - SME

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.