Data Architect: Sponsorship Available

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

The Data Architect is a key member of the Digital Data & Technology(DDaT) team, adding value for our patients through improving and developing digital services across the Trust and wider health and care system.

Ensure the Data Warehouse and BI teams are an effective component of the Trust’s DDaT target operating model, working alongside others, delivering continuous overall improvement. The Data Architect is responsible for teams delivering accurate and timely datasets and analytics to support clinical services, in line with Trust priorities. They will also pro-actively review new and emerging technologies and their potential benefit to the Trust, and where relevant develop business cases for these technologies.

The role has a strong client focus, manages complex and sensitiveinformation, liaises and communicates with clinical and non-clinical staffand external suppliers to ensure quality standards are met for any changes deployed.

They take a leading role in how their teams operate, supporting the organisation (and the ICS), and enabling innovation and supporting delivery of local, regional and national strategy.Ensure that services are supported with consistent, professional and value adding expertise from the Data Warehouse and BI teams.The role requires an expert technical base and the ability to deliver as well as manage technical solutions.

 

Main duties of the job

  • Provide leadership and senior specialist technical support for the existing set of data applications in SQL server, Exasol, Tableau, Azure.
  • Ensure the data warehouse and BI teams are kept abreast of current technologies in their respective spaces; engendering an understanding of current and future opportunities.
  • Ensure the Data Warehouse and BI team deliver accurate and timely datasets to support clinical operational services, research and clinical analytics in line with Trust priorities, that support direct care delivery and lead to research funding.
  • Specify, develop and maintain technical standard operating procedures used by the Data Warehouse and BI teams and ensure they are followed.
  • Act as senior point of contact to solve user and system problems.
  • Lead on projects with the analytics and other digital colleagues to ensure that the Trust’s requirements are met and enable the production of analysis that helps the Trust to understand and improve quality and safety of care.
  • Advise key internal customers/stakeholders on management and storage of datasets and analysis tools available to them.
  • Assist in managing the secure data environment quality function where data quality issues (e.g. inconsistency, referential integrity, missing data) are identified from investigations of data within the warehouse; maintaining an Issue log whereby issues are logged and tracked through to resolution.

Person Specification

Lead the end-to-end architecture of enterprise data platforms

Essential

  • Data Lakes, Lakehouse, and Data Warehouses.

Desirable

  • Design and maintain canonical data models (conceptual, logical, and physical) for structured, semi-structured

Develop architectural strategies, blueprints for hybrid and cloud-native solutions

Essential

  • leveraging AWS, Azure, or GCP

Desirable

  • Extensive exprience in developing architectural strategies, blueprints for hybrid and cloud-native solutions

ELT/ETL Frameworks & Pipelines

Essential

  • Develop robust ELT/ETL pipelines using tools like Apache Airflow, DBT, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, or Kafka Connect.

Desirable

  • Optimize data transformations for performance, reusability, and modular design (e.g., using SQL/Scala/Python).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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 UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

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. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 10 December 2025

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