Deputy Head of Data Engineering

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

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 16,000 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

We are seeking a skilled and motivated individual to join our Business Intelligence Team at Imperial College Healthcare. In this role, you will be responsible for developing information systems to support the Medical Director's Office, with a strong focus on Microsoft SQL Server development and/or Apache Spark big data processing environments. Your work will involve creating algorithms and pipelines to transform and process data, delivering powerful solutions that address both clinical and operational needs.

If you're passionate about shaping the future of healthcare through innovative digital solutions and making a real impact on patient and staff experiences, we want to hear from you.

Key responsibilities:

• Liaise with senior clinical stakeholders, system suppliers and operational staff to clarify requirements and develop systems that 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 ongoing maintenance and optimisation of these information systems
• Serve as subject matter expert in the technical and data infrastructure of digital solutions

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

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

Shortlisted applicants will be invited for an in-person interview on site.

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 Head of Data Engineering 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 Head of Data Engineering 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.

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.
• Knowledge and understanding of mandatory reporting requirements, NHS data standards and definitions
• Good understanding of NHS governance and performance systems.
• Advanced knowledge of ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) processes.
• Good knowledge and competent use of Patient Administration System and other HealthCare IT systems.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of managing projects.
• Experience of Business Objects

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.
• Administrative and organisational skills
• Perform DBA\Developer activities
• Ability to organise/prioritise own workload and workload of others

Desirable criteria

• Proven people management, leadership, team building and motivation skills.
• Use of SQL server 2014
• 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, 535.8KB)
• Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)