Trainee Data Engineer: Sponsorship Available

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

This is a job share role and an opportunity to spend 12 months with an award winning and internationally accredited data architecture team. Working with an experienced data architect this role would be perfect for and early career data architect or graduate looking to gain paid work experience to enhance their career prospects in this field.

This role will support the Data Warehouse team with the operational day to day extraction, transformation and loading of data from various clinical and non clinical systems into a cloud-based data warehouse server and be able to implement and provide specialist knowledge on ETL processes.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opening to work on the collecting, storing, processing, and analyzing huge sets of data. The primary focus will be on choosing optimal solutions to use for these purposes, then maintaining, implementing, and monitoring them you will build ETL/ELT best practices in a data environment, featuring data pipelines, working closely with Cloud data architecture (Azure) and be an SME in relation to knowledge of big data tools/platforms, data management tools and necessary infrastructure changes.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

Essential

  • Educated to bachelor’s level in computer science, software engineering or equivalent

Desirable

  • Has professional certification in Business Intelligence or Data warehouse technology

Experience

Essential

  • Specialist knowledge and expertise in data modelling, database development and advanced skills in T-SQL
  • Knowledge of designing and building ETL packages

Desirable

  • Advanced level of technical expertise and skills in the management and development of a data warehouse

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Effective inter-personal skills, able to liaise with managers and clinicians at all levels internal and external to the organisation offering guidance and interpretation on complex information pertaining to the Data Warehouse and Data Modelling

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: 22 November 2026

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