MS Fabric Consultant- Hybrid

Context
Client is standing up Microsoft Fabric as the data and AI platform for a multi-business-unit manufacturing segment. The platform decision is made; the foundation is not yet built. There is no existing internal data team you are the first. You will work directly with the VP of Digital & AI and alongside an implementation partner, onboarding business units sequentially and turning the first one into a repeatable pattern.

The architecture and governance third
Tenant, domain, and workspace design for a segment with several operating business units
Capacity sizing, cost modelling, and attributing consumption back to business units
Access, security, and lifecycle model across development, test, and production
Standards for where metrics are defined, who may certify them, and how a newly acquired company is onboarded
Being the person who says no when a shortcut would cost us later and who knows which shortcuts are fine

The engineering two-thirds
Building ingestion from multiple ERPs and line-of-business systems
Designing and building the layered data model, and the shared conformed dimensions every business unit consumes
Semantic modelling the certified definitions that reporting and AI tooling read from
Deployment pipelines, orchestration, monitoring, and the operational discipline to keep it running
Doing the first build yourself so the pattern is right before anyone repeats it

What we are looking for
You have built a Fabric or comparable lakehouse environment from nothing, and you have lived with the consequences of your own design decisions
You can defend a capacity sizing decision with numbers, and say what you would do differently a second time
You write production code SQL certainly, Python and Spark as needed and have done so recently
You are comfortable being the only data person in the room with non-technical stakeholders
You have a view on where governance earns its keep and where it becomes bureaucracy

What this role is not
Not a pure architect role. If you have not built anything in three years, this will not suit you.
Not a pure engineering role. You will be making and defending decisions, not implementing someone else's design.
Not a role where you inherit a team. You establish the practice; others join later.
Not a greenfield-with-unlimited-budget role.