Senior Analytics Engineer

My client are looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to join their team on an initial 3-6 month contract , Inside IR35. They are moving towards a data-driven culture, and this individual will help lead their Fabric-First analytics layer - designing reusable semantic models , optimising Dataflows Gen2 and Lakehouse/Warehouse tables, and co-creating their core management reporting suite.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the build of governed, high performance semantic models (Direct Lake/Import/Composite) and certified Data sets Engineer upstream transformations with PySpark/SQL/notebooks ; minimise DAX-heavy shaping Co-design the KPI Taxonomy and management reporting suite with Execs and functional leaders Optimise refresh, performance and deployment;enforce standards, security and documentation Mentor engineers and drive best practice across the analytics community Prepare models for CoPilot & Fabric AI : business-friendly names, synonyms metadata and consistent and measures.

What our client is looking for:
Strong Microsoft Fabric experience ; expert Power BI model design and performance tuning. Excellent Power Query and QL/T-SQL; advanced DAX for measures. Confidence engaging from C-Suite to analysts; clear, out-come focused communication Nice to have:
Python/PySpark, Purview/DataHUB , observability tooling, Direct Lake Optimisation. You'll shape the semantic layer that shapes the companies decision making, enabling AI-assisted self-service analytics with Co-Pilot and delivering trusted management reporting suite used at every level of the business.