Senior Data Engineer

The post holder will play a key role in developing and maintaining the Trust Data Management and visualisation platforms used by Information Services and the wider organisation. The post-holder will support the specification and development of data flows, models and reports to enable Information Services to deliver a first class, comprehensive and proactive service to the Trust.

The post holder will contribute to the development of the Data Engineering programme and ensure all reporting is presented in the most dynamic and meaningful way. The post holder will ensure the integrity of data across all datasets used both internally and for local and national returns. The role will be critical in embedding the cultural shift within the organisation.

Data Science and clinical intelligence are revolutionising healthcare, offering opportunities for continuous clinical improvement as well as more personalised care. You will play a key role in developing and maintaining MFT’s Trust-wide reporting and analysis service, using a range of business intelligence products and data warehousing technology. As we seek to improve clinical quality through informatics, we’ll look to your expertise to ensure we deliver a first-class service to the Trust.

Main duties of the job

• To be the Trust specialist on designing and developing information solutions using Business Intelligence products and Data Warehousing technology.
• You will provide expertise in SQL Server, modelling and report development, web-based visualisation platforms, Python, R, online collaboration and development platforms, and Cloud based technologies.
• The post holder will work with relevant stakeholders to plan, design, and implement Business Intelligence solutions to underpin effective decision making and improve clinical quality.
• To support the development of products and services using data warehouse and data lake platforms, visualisation tools, and Cloud based technologies.
• To use advanced technical and analytical skills to ensure the Information Services department delivers its objectives of developing a Trust wide data warehouse and sophisticated reporting service.
• To proactively seek sophisticated solutions to Information and reporting problems that ensure the department can evolve in an increasingly demanding climate.
• The post holder must communicate complex analytical concepts to other Information staff and to also provide summary of these concepts to other staff groups from a non-IT background.
• To train and support colleagues in the Information Services team and beyond in new technologies, newly developed reports/models.

About Us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.

We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary. We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Job 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: Degree qualification and/or relevant experience.
• Desirable: Evidence of continued personal development.

Experience/Knowledge

• Essential: Experience of data warehousing & modelling.
• Experience of creating reports/dashboards using visualisation tools/platforms.
• Business/Project experience – Requirements gathering, stakeholder management, project management.
• Experience of Cloud/Data Science/ML/Data lakes.

• Desirable: Experience of working with NHS data/EPR/Agile & DevOps.

Skills

• Essential: Technical – SQL, including advanced querying.
• Technical – Developing visualisation/reporting and administrating platforms.
• Technical – Data Science/ML/Cloud.
• Technical – Python/R/other general purpose programming languages/statistics.

• Desirable: Associated technologies.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

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