Senior Azure/Fabric Data Engineer | KD Pharma

📋 Job Overview

GT was founded in 2019 by a former Apple, Nest, and Google executive. GT’s mission is to connect the world’s best talent with product careers offered by high-growth companies in the UK, USA, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands. On behalf of KD Pharma, GT is looking for a Senior Azure/Fabric Data Engineer with architecture exposure, interested in assessing, designing, and potentially building a modern data platform to support Finance, Operations/Supply Chain, and Quality/Manufacturing functions. The engagement will initially start with a part-time discovery phase of approximately 20 hours per week, with the potential to transition into a full-time implementation role following the discovery phase and client approval.

🏢 About KD Pharma

Founded in 1988, KD Pharma is a pure-play, technology-driven CDMO (Contract Development & Manufacturing Organization) dedicated to revolutionizing pharmaceutical and nutraceutical production. They are uniquely recognized for offering ultra-pure Omega-3 concentrates at commercial scale through patented supercritical fluid chromatography technologies. Located in Germany, Norway, the UK, the USA, Canada, Peru, and with sales presence across Asia, they deliver end-to-end solutions from custom synthesis to finished dosage forms while adhering to cGMP and global certifications.

🎯 The Role

This is a hands-on senior role combining data engineering, architecture, and client-facing advisory work. You will help translate business and technical requirements into practical architecture recommendations, assess key trade-offs, and define an implementation roadmap. The ideal candidate is a pragmatic architect-builder who can work independently and communicate clearly with both technical and business stakeholders. Following the discovery phase, the role may transition into a full-time implementation engagement.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Assess the current Azure and Microsoft Fabric data environment
• Define the target data architecture and implementation roadmap
• Design medallion and metadata-driven ETL/ELT solutions
• Evaluate Fabric capacity, performance, and cost
• Integrate data from ERP, manufacturing, and quality systems
• Design Power BI semantic models and data-governance standards
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders during discovery
• Support hands-on implementation following client approval

📌 Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, BI, or data platforms
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Lake Gen2
• Practical commercial experience with Microsoft Fabric, including Lakehouse or Warehouse components
• Advanced SQL/T-SQL skills
• Experience with Python or PySpark
• Strong Power BI experience, including DAX, Tabular modelling, semantic models, and dimensional modelling
• Experience designing ETL/ELT pipelines, medallion architectures, and data-integration solutions
• Experience with Git, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines
• Architecture exposure through discovery, solution design, technical estimation, or technology-selection decisions
• Strong English and client-facing communication skills

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Fabric capacity monitoring, SKU sizing, or cost-optimisation experience
• Metadata-driven ETL framework experience
• Multi-ERP integration experience, particularly Business Central or SAP
• Experience with Purview, Databricks, Synapse, pharma, manufacturing, or GxP environments
• Background in regulated manufacturing/pharma (GxP) — can be learned

🎁 Benefits

Competitive

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Europe-based candidates only