Senior Data Engineer

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Project Responsibilities
• Support the strategic planning and business development of the Trust.
• Lead the design and implementation of new and improved analysis and reporting streams.
• Keep up to date with new developments which affect the system's design and application development appropriate to the Trust, including researching and evaluating new technologies.
• Keep abreast of national and local reporting requirements and ensure necessary changes in reports management fit the needs of the business.
• Have the ability to influence people with different perspectives to get the most out of stakeholder relationships.
• It is expected that the post holder will work through all projects with autonomy and take all necessary decisions to see projects through to a satisfactory conclusion.
• Expected to manage concurrent projects and resources independently and proactively.

Leadership
• Represent Data Engineering at internal and external meetings.
• Provide support to the team and offer support and guidance to all other members of the Information Team.
Testing and Exercise
• To ensure comprehensive test plans are created, maintained and fully auditable, exercising these on implementation and an ad-hoc basis to ensure data provision always meets the specific needs for which it has been designed.
• Have a keen eye for quality assurance and be able to perform rigorous testing on both your own scripts and the scripts of others.
Key Relationships (Internal/External)
• Department work streams - Performance Reporting & Business Intelligence, Clinical Information & Data Assurance, Data Engineering, Clinical Coding
• Finance
• General Managers and Service Managers
• IT, HR Business partners and Management Accountants
• CCGs, NHS organisations and other external partners / agencies

Risk Management and Governance
• Contribute to working collaboratively with colleagues to ensure that effective governance arrangements and performance management systems are in place
• Contribute to working collaboratively with colleagues to ensure that all risks are identified and included as appropriate on the organisational risk register and are progressed appropriately to reduce the risk profile
• Contribute to working collaboratively with colleagues to address complaints and incidents appropriately - lead the learning from such events to ensure that learning is achieved across the department
Corporate
• Use specialist knowledge and experience to ensure that decisions taken are in the Trust's best interests
• Work with colleagues to facilitate corporate and service line performance through realistic, cross referenced and measurable objectives
• Put the interests of the Trust before any interest to a specific area of responsibility, and to participate fully in the department's collective decision-making as a team member rather than as a functional or professional advocate.
• We actively encourage development within the workforce and employees are required to comply with the Trust mandatory training.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• Advanced knowledge in T-SQL and scripting languages

Experience

Essential criteria

• Proven track record of working within an Informatics environment
• Experience of programming, configuring, managing and maintaining the operation of complex databases and to develop and manipulate large, complex data sets
• Experience of data interrogation and data linking, able to analyse complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

• Developed specialist knowledge of data collection and analysis to design and develop reports
• Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and SQL
• Extensive working knowledge of Microsoft Office package - particularly Word, Access and Excel
• Risk management and governance
• Experience with Power BI and creating Dashboards
• Working and managing databases
• Lead project
• Working in an Acute Hospital
• Knowledge of report automation software

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of Python
• Knowledge and understanding of NHS Data Dictionary and Trust clinical systems with the ability in interpreting national guidance

Personal Skills

Essential criteria

• Good analytical and problem solving skills - ability to analyse highly complex data/information and make judgements/draw conclusions - including ability to respond to unexpected demands
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal - able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive information and use persuasion, influencing and negotiation with individuals and groups including stakeholders
• Ability to work independently and make autonomous decisions
• Ability to embrace, lead and drive change

It is an exciting time to join the newly formed Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• JD Senior Data Engineer (PDF, 216.4KB)
• Person specification Senior Data Engineer (PDF, 152.4KB)
• JD Senior Data Engineer (PDF, 152.4KB)
• Disclosure & Barring Information and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 78.5KB)
• Staff Diversity Network (PDF, 140.3KB)
• Information for Disabled Applicants (PDF, 98.7KB)
• Bedford Hospital Site map (PDF, 2.6MB)
• Staff Benefits (PNG, 1.6MB)