Deputy Data Warehouse Manager

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With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career. We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust provides acute and specialist healthcare in North West London for around a million and a half people every year. Formed in 2007, we are one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, employing 13,000 staff.

An exciting opportunity has become available to join Imperial College Healthcare's Business Intelligence Team. We are looking for a talented, highly motivated person to develop information systems for the Medical Director's Office. There will be a particular emphasis in this role on developing within a Microsoft SQL Server development environment and/or an Apache Spark big data processing environment - creating algorithms and pipelines to ingest and transform data into information systems and solutions capable of answering clinical and operational requirements.

If you're passionate about innovative healthcare solutions, driving digital transformation, and ready to make a tangible difference in patient and staff experience we want to hear from you.

You will be expected to:

• Liaise with senior clinical stakeholders, system suppliers and operational staff in order to clarify requirements and develop systems which pioneer use of digital systems to transform patient care
• Manage projects and timelines working with developers and system administrators to deliver in accordance with tight deadlines
• Ensure efficient and optimum reporting systems are developed to meet reporting/monitoring requirements using a range of technologies and ensure the ongoing maintenance and optimisation of these information systems
• Be a subject matter expert in the technical and data infrastructure of digital solutions

You must already be an expert information system developer and preferably have had exposure developing algorithms in Python/pyspark. As a minimum expert level experience of SQL server is expected.

The role is a hybrid role based at the St Mary's site in Paddington and working from home.

Main duties of the job

To be part of a team providing complete, accurate and timely Business Intelligence to support performance, research and education. The Deputy Data Warehouse Manager provides management of and direction for the maintenance and development of this important Trust asset. The role provides specialist advice where required and oversees internal and external technical resources. S/he will be responsible for providing a service that supports reporting and analytics to internal customers and mandatory reports to external stakeholders. Working collaboratively with stakeholders, the role supports the Data Warehouse Manager to prioritise areas for development. The Deputy Data Warehouse Manager reports directly to the Data Warehouse Manager and deputises in his/her absence. The post holder will be responsible for managing data warehouse team members and leading projects.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Master's Degree level or equivalent experience (relevant to role).
• Evidence of ongoing personal and professional development

Desirable criteria

• Management qualification or equivalent experience
• Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts professional registration

Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable experience in healthcare informatics analytics
• Knowledge and understanding of mandatory reporting requirements, NHS data standards and definitions
• Good understanding of NHS governance and performance systems.
• Good knowledge and competent use of Patient Administration System and other HealthCare IT systems.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of Business Objects
• Experience of managing projects
• Demonstrable experience at a senior level in healthcare
• Good knowledge of NHS provider/commissioner contracts & payment by results

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Good level of technical skills, underpinned by theory and practice, in designing systems, handling sensitive data, automating data processing that will support data presentation and interpretation.
• Excellent communication skills
• Perform DBA\Developer activities
• Administrative and organisational skills

Desirable criteria

• Proven people management, leadership, team building and motivation skills
• IT Project Management knowledge and experience

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

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Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 632.5KB)
• Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)