Principal Data Engineer: Sponsorship Available

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

Data Science and clinical intelligence are revolutionising healthcare, offering opportunities for continuous clinical improvement as well as more personalised care. In this senior role, you will lead on the delivery and continued improvement of MFT’s data management platform and services.

As weseek to improve clinical quality through digital solutions, we’ll look to your expertise in designing and developing information solutions, with a particular focus on cloud and web-based data platforming. You will also lead on the specification and development of dataflows, models, automation, and reports, ensuring we deliver a first-class service to the Trust.

  • On-site working (Trafford House, Wythenshawe) will be required in some form.
  • If you are shortlisted, you can expect to hear from us within 5 working days of the advert closing. Interviews will be conducted on-site at Trafford House, Wythenshawe.
  • Applications – please ensure evidence of experience and application of technical skills are included within your application.

While a background in the NHS is welcome, this is also an opportunity for specialists from other backgrounds to challenge their expertise within the acute healthcare sector. Along with advanced technical and analytical skills, experience of designing and delivering large, enterprise-wide relationalmodelling and analytical solutions is critical. Knowledge of SQL, ETL, modelling, data science, andvisualisations platforms is essential.

Main duties of the job

This is a senior developer role, leading in the development, maintenance, and continued improvement of the Trust data management platforms and services used by Information Management and the wider organisation. You will lead on the specification and development of datasets, data flows, models, processes, and dashboards across multiple areas and clinical services to enable Information Management to deliver a first class, comprehensive and proactive service to the Trust.

You will use you expertise to deliver analytics, reporting and insights which underpin effective decision making. To be the Trust specialist on designing and developing information solutions using the latest technologies available including, data warehousing, data lakes, web-based visualisation tools, R and Python, cloud-based technologies, and statistical analysis.

The post holder will act as a project manager for developments, ensuring effective communication, customer engagement, and delivering against pre-determined outcomes. The ability to motivate others and drive ongoing delivery against objectives and other competing priorities will be essential, as well as the ability to deal at pace with changing requirements or circumstances and provide alternate recommendations to mitigate delivery or service improvement challenges.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Masters’ degree or equivalent qualification and / or relevant experience.

Desirable

  • Evidence of continued personal development

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

  • Experience of implementing large enterprise-wide relational datasets/modelling.
  • Experience of business intelligence and visualisation platforms.
  • Experience and knowledge of development life cycle tools/project methodologies
  • Experience and knowledge of Cloud/Data Science/ML/Data lakes
  • Mentoring/management/leading staff and teams

Desirable

  • Knowledge of Acute Trust NHS experience, Community, Mental Health data and returns

Skills

Essential

  • Technical – Advanced SQL Server
  • Technical – Data flow & Modelling
  • Technical – Visualisation platforms
  • Technical – Cloud infrastructure and services (data lakes, ML Modelling, data cataloges. etc)

Desirable

  • other 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 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: 03 March 2025

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