Senior Fabric Data Engineer contract role in Adelaide CBD
Your new company
Join a forward-thinking organisation undertaking a major transformation of its data platform, leveraging modern cloud technologies to build scalable, enterprise-grade data solutions. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a high-impact project using Microsoft Fabric and advanced data engineering practices.
Your new role
As a Senior Fabric Data Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and delivering robust, metadata-driven data pipelines and Lakehouse solutions. You will work across the full data lifecycle, building ingestion frameworks, transformation pipelines, and high-quality data models to support analytics and business decision-making.
What you'll need to succeed
Key Responsibilities:
Design and develop metadata-driven ingestion pipelines from SQL Server into Microsoft Fabric
Build and maintain Bronze, Silver, and Gold Lakehouse layers
Develop Bronze to Silver transformation pipelines using SQL or Dataflows Gen2
Create and optimise Gold layer tables for semantic modelling
Build Silver to Gold transformation pipelines
Maintain and manage code using Azure DevOps and Git
Ensure best practices in data governance, RBAC, and workspace segregation
Technical Skills & Experience:
Strong experience in Microsoft Fabric, Azure,



or Databricks environments
Proficiency in SQL, Python, and Lakehouse architectures
Experience with data engineering frameworks and metadata-driven ELT pipelines
Solid understanding of Delta Lake optimisation and OneLake
Experience with medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold)
Hands-on experience with Git and deployment pipelines
Experience required:
5+ years' experience designing and developing modern cloud data platforms (ELT, Lakehouse)
Proven track record in building ingestion frameworks
Experience with Fabric or equivalent platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, AWS)
Relevant certification such as:
Microsoft DP-600 (Fabric Data Engineer Associate) or
Azure Data Engineer certification
What you'll get in return
Opportunity to work on cutting-edge data technologies
Exposure to a large-scale transformation program
Competitive daily rate and potential contract extension
Team-oriented and innovative working environment
What you need to do now
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📌 Azure Senior Fabric Data Enginereer (Adelaide)
🏢 Hays
📍 Adelaide