Data Engineer: Sponsorship Available

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Job Summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a Data Engineer to join our dynamic Imperial Clinical Analytics, Research & Evaluation (iCARE) team. As part of the iCARE NHS team, you will directly contribute to the delivery of a translational portfolio of projects within the Digital Health theme of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, and Paddington Life Sciences initiative, spanning translational data analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-World Evidence. You will be part of a data engineering team delivering projects and interventions that make a genuine contribution to improving health at person and population level.

You will play an integral part in the further evolution of the Imperial Biomedical Research Centre’s Azure based NHS Secure Data Environment. Working in our iCARE NHS data-engineering unit you will support the delivery and curation of huge volumes healthcare and other data using our advanced technology and systems.

Based in our brand new Digital Collaboration Space at St Mary’s hospital you will work with world-class clinicians, data scientists, researchers, data engineers and informaticans to address priorities to respond to the needs and preferences of our patients, staff and local community towards social purpose and care equity during the ongoing digital transformation of the NHS.

Main duties of the job

As a Data Engineer, you will play an important role in the further evolution of the Imperial Biomedical Research Centre’s Secure Data Environment Imperial Clinical Analytics, Research & Evaluation (iCARE) team. Specifically, you will be part of a team responsible for providing a data engineering service that supports the development of data pipelines of curated and structured databases for direct care, operational decision making and research, using routinely captured patient data and analytics tools for our internal and external stakeholders. The role will specifically support the Director’s strategy for prioritising the most immediate areas for development in Digital Health.

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values – expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree in relevant field
  • Prince II
  • ITIL certification

Desirable

  • Masters in IT
  • Business Objects

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience in Data Warehouse development and Maintenance
  • Database management and administration experience
  • Experience of working with very large datasets (ideally NHS or healthcare)
  • IT Project Management knowledge and experience

Desirable

  • Developing SSIS packages
  • Use of SQL server 2014 – 2019
  • Experience Metadata management and documentation
  • Experience of NHS (or other healthcare) systems and processes

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential

  • Strong knowledge of either Snowflake, SSIS, ADF, or DBT
  • Knowledge of different data types, structured and unstructured including XML, JSON
  • Advanced SQL knowledge Good knowledge of data modelling, database structures and process
  • Good understanding of technology and systems applications
  • ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) knowledge
  • Ability to process multi
  • Excellent oral and written skills
  • Good presentation skills to allow effective communication during meetings, conferences, workshops and seminars
  • Ability to communicate effectively to ensure that complex technical requirements can be understood by non-technical audiences

Desirable

  • Good Knowledge of NHS data structures, coding systems and data dictionary
  • Agile project management
  • Software development frameworks and version control
  • OLAP Technology
  • Knowledge of data warehouse
  • Knowledge of QlikView/tableau or similar

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: 09 December 2024

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