EY Manager Data Architect - Fabric & Analytics Belfast Derry/Londonderry 

United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Belfast 

484620924

Your key responsibilities

• • Contribute to the design and delivery of Microsoft Fabric solution architecture for complex client projects.
  • Support diverse project teams working across Microsoft Fabric, including data engineers, data architects, and Power BI developers, delivering end-to-end modern data platform solutions.
  • Implement Fabric-based data artefacts using Lakehouses, Data Warehouses, Data Pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, and Notebooks in line with client needs and industry best practices.
  • Guide teams on best practices in Direct Lake mode, OneLake shortcuts, delta tables, and efficient data layer separation (Bronze, Silver, Gold).
  • Implement Fabric-native data governance to ensure compliance, privacy, and data protection across domains.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including cloud engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders—to translate business needs into robust Microsoft Fabric-based technical designs.
  • Assist with data architecture assessments for legacy or cloud-based environments and develop Fabric-based migration roadmaps, including data modelling, ingestion, transformation, and reporting.
  • Understand CI/CD processes for Fabric using Azure DevOps Git integration, including workspace branching strategies, pull requests, build and release pipelines.
  • Stay current with Microsoft Fabric product evolution, industry trends, and data architecture patterns.

To qualify for the role;

• • Experience in data architecture and engineering, including experience leading enterprise-scale cloud data projects.
  • Proven experience in deploying solutions within Microsoft Fabric.
  • Solid understanding of data modelling techniques across transactional, analytical, and semantic layers; strong hands-on experience using delta lake formats and Fabric Lakehouse/SQL endpoints.
  • Experience building and orchestrating Data Pipelines and Dataflows Gen2, including incremental loads, change data capture, and medallion architecture design.
  • Strong leadership and client-facing communication skills.
  • Experience managing teams and mentoring junior employees.

The following will be an advantage;

• • Consulting experience, with the ability to build trusted advisor relationships and provide both strategic and hands-on implementation guidance.

What we look for

We’re interested in candidates with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so you’ll also need the ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you’re serious about auditing and ready to take on some of our clients’ most complex issues, this role is for you.

What we offer

• Continuous learning:You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you:We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership:We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture:You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please note;

Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. Read more about our commitment to diversity& inclusiveness

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