Deputy Head of Data Engineering

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Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

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

The Trust is looking for a talented, experienced and enthusiastic person to support the Data Warehouse team as the Deputy Head of Engineering.

The role will assist in maintaining and developing information systems within the Trust and specifically reporting extracts for an outpatients transformation programme where datasets, data flows and reports will be improved so as to support a key area of development and change within the organisation.

The role will involve close engagement with system suppliers, Imperial College Healthcare Trust(ICHT) staff and senior service (clinical) staff and the candidate is expected to have experience extracting data and creating reports from clinical systems.

This position is also a management position and could involve managing projects and or developers/database administrators developing systems in on premises systems or in the cloud.

Main duties of the job

• To be part of a team providing complete, accurate and timely Business Intelligence to support performance, research and education.
• You will provide 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.
• You 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.
• You will report directly to the Data Warehouse Manager and deputises in their 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.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

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
• Qualification in Project Management.
• Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts professional registration

Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable experience in healthcare informatics analytics
• Good understanding of NHS governance and performance systems.
• Experience of communicating complex issues and data concepts to a range of people

Desirable criteria

• Experience of Business Objects
• Experience of managing projects.

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.
• Ability to organise/prioritise own workload and workload of others
• Perform DBA\Developer activities
• Data Warehouse experience

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, 535.9KB)
• Function Requirement Form (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)