Senior Data Engineer

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the 'Supporting Documents' heading. So that you're even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to take time to read the 'Candidate Essentials Guide' that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how 'we care for you as you care for others'. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We're looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to Master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in an informatics/health care data function.

Desirable criteria

• A relevant qualification in information management

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Extensive experience in data engineering within the healthcare sector, with a focus on NHS data systems.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of NHS strategies, policies and plans
• Good knowledge of Python for data engineering purposes

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• In-depth knowledge of data modelling, database design, and data warehousing principles.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Significant experience of extracting data, manipulating, understanding, transforming, wrangling and cleaning NHS datasets.

Skillls and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Proficiency in programming languages commonly used in data engineering.

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to support and host discussions within a multidisciplinary team, with potentially difficult dynamics, and be an advocate for the team externally to can manage differing perspectives.

Attributes

Essential criteria

• Proven ability to manage projects, meet deadlines, and deliver high-quality results within scope and budget constraints.

Training and Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of exporting data from various source data systems, transforming data against required business rules and data models, or data storage and analysis requirements and loading data in various storage platforms.
• Experience of working within and/or with multi-disciplinary teams, a proven track record of successful transformative and innovative working within health or health related settings

Desirable criteria

• Hands on experience of Snowflake

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Senior Data Engineer JD (PDF, 296.6KB)
• Senior Data Engineer PS (PDF, 368.6KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 1000.2KB)
• Candidate Essential Guide Non Medical (PDF, 1.3MB)