Data Solutions Designer

In this role, you will translate business requirements and architecture into build-ready data designs within a Microsoft Fabric landscape. You’ll drive reusable patterns and ensure governance, security, and non-functional considerations are embedded. You’ll operate at the junction of architecture and engineering, guiding senior engineers and potentially mentoring juniors. You’ll collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and the Data & Analytics team to align with enterprise standards and support data migrations. This is a hands-on, design-focused senior IC role with opportunities to influence cross-domain data solutions.

• hybrid working model
• travel up to 5%

• Lead detailed design for data and BI solutions, covering source-to-target mapping, transformation, orchestration, security, and non-functional requirements
• Create and maintain design artefacts (data models, interface specs, lineage, architecture decisions) to guide implementation
• Establish reusable patterns and standards to enable cross-domain reuse and CI/CD readiness; enforce data quality, reconciliation and observability by design
• Represent the team in design reviews, provide credible technical challenge, assess risks, and recommend alternatives
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to ensure alignment with target-state architecture and enterprise standards; support migrations and decommissioning with impact analysis and sequencing

• 5+ years in data engineering, solution design, data architecture, BI or analytics with end-to-end data solution experience
• Experience designing at least one substantial data platform covering ingestion, transformation, storage and consumption
• Strong cloud data platform experience and ability to present and defend designs to governance forums
• Proven ability to translate business needs into technical solutions and communicate with technical and non-technical audiences
• Knowledge of data governance, data quality, security and privacy by design
• Experience creating high-level and low-level designs (HLD/LLD) with interface specs and architecture decisions
• Ability to design with a platform mindset and challenge technical designs credibly

• Clear and persuasive communication to diverse stakeholders
• Analytical and problem-solving orientation with attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and between architecture and engineering contexts
• Microsoft Fabric
• Data governance and security by design
• CI/CD practices