The post holder will provide specialist digital, data and infrastructure engineering expertise to support business intelligence, reporting, analytics and insight across the South Yorkshire & Bassetlaw CancerAlliance.
The post holder will develop, implement and maintain secure, reliable and scalable data solutions, data pipelines and supporting technical infrastructure that enable the effective delivery of cancer informationand intelligence services across the Cancer Alliance.
Main duties of the job
Working within agreed organisational strategies, technical frameworks, architecture standards and governance arrangements, the post holder will apply specialist knowledge of data engineering, cloud technologies, data integration and business intelligence platforms to support the delivery of technical solutions that meet operational, analytical and reporting requirements.
The post holder will translate business and information requirements into technical specifications and support the development of solutions that ensure cancer data from multiple sources is integrated, managed and made available for reporting, analysis and decision-making purposes.
The role requires specialist knowledge of data engineering, cloud platforms, data modelling, data integration, digital infrastructure and NHS information standards, acquired through degree-level study, equivalent specialist training and significant practical experience.
The post holder will work collaboratively with colleagues across the Cancer Alliance, South Yorkshire ICB, NHS provider organisations and partner agencies to support the ongoing development of modern data and analytics capabilities and contribute to service improvement initiatives.
The post holder will exercise professional judgement in resolving complex technical issues, adapting established approaches where appropriate and working within agreed policies, procedures and technical standards.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Degree (or equivalent experience) in a technical, digital, data engineering or computing discipline.
- Strong understanding of modern cloud based data platforms and how data engineering and platform design support large scale analytics and intelligence delivery.
- Significant equivalent experience in NHS or public sector digital or data platform roles.
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification in computer science, data engineering, cloud computing or related field.
- Relevant professional certifications (e.g. cloud, data platform, infrastructure or security).
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience designing, building and operating data platforms or data engineering solutions.
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries in complex systems.
- Leading technical workstreams or platform components.
- Experience with data integration, modelling, validation and performance optimisation.
- Working with senior stakeholders to deliver technical solutions that meet strategic needs.
Desirable
- Experience of health or care data environments.
- Experience supporting large scale, multi organisation platforms.
- Experience managing infrastructure services or technical suppliers.
- Experience enabling governed self service access to data.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Strong data engineering skills, including t-sql and spark spark sql; fabric or data factory pipelines; fabric notebook; data flows and data modelling.
- Understanding of cloud data architectures, platform services and infrastructure concepts.
- Experience designing secure, well governed data solutions.
- Strong problem solving and systems thinking capability.
- Excellent technical communication and documentation skills.
- Practical experience with Microsoft Fabric, including data pipelines, Lakehouse/Warehouse concepts, semantic models or Power BI integration.
Desirable
- Programming or orchestration tools (e.g. Python, DAX, Azure).
- Knowledge of NHS data governance and information standards.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Professional, credible and resilient under pressure
- Comfortable working in complex, ambiguous technical environments.
- Collaborative, inclusive and values-driven leadership style
- Committed to continuous personal and team development.
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.
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: 18 October 2026
