Data Team Lead
Heathrow/Stafford/Hybrid (with travel to UK sites)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: Competitive Salary DOE plus vehicle/vehicle allowance and company bonus
This is an incredible opportunity to work for a forward-thinking community equipment services provider, who'll support you to be the best you can be in your chosen field
Join us as our new Data Team Leadat Medequip Assistive Technology Ltd and let us empower you to truly make a difference.
Our continued employee development programmes, internal training and exceptional leadership will give you the ability to continuously develop yourself professionally whilst providing person-centred support.
You'll be supported by an excellent team of professional and ever developing co-workers who all identify and align with Medequip's values.
Who are Medequip?
Medequip is the leading provider of medical equipment services to local authorities and the NHS across the UK, delivering a wide range of equipment and support to people in their own homes, keeping people independent for longer.
About the role
We're looking for a Data Team Lead to take ownership of our data services across the Medequip group (including Rosscare and Consolor). This is a hands-on technical leadership role, overseeing a small team and ensuring high-quality, reliable data is available to support operational performance, strategic decisions, and compliance obligations.)
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
Data Operations & Management
* Lead the day-to-day activities of the data team, including tickets, change requests, and reporting tasks.
* Maintain robust, monitored data pipelines across core systems (TCES, CRM, Finance, etc.).
* Manage data refresh cycles, performance tuning, and SQL Server uptime.
* Ensure reporting continuity across Medequip, Rosscare, and Consolor.
BI Reporting & Visualisation
* Oversee Power BI dashboards, paginated reports, and performance metrics.
* Review and approve complex DAX, SQL, and Power Query logic.
* Support and promote self-service analytics with reusable datasets and models.
Data Governance & Quality
* Define data standards, naming conventions, validation rules, and documentation practices.
* Work with data owners to cleanse poor-quality data and build proactive quality controls.
* Ensure data privacy compliance (e.g. GDPR, retention, subject access).
Strategic Contribution
* Shape future data architecture, warehousing, and integration strategies.
* Collaborate with 3rd parties and internal IT on APIs, ETL, and structured data flows.
* Support system changes, contract migrations, and new service integrations.
About you
Above all, you will identify and align with our company values:
* We keep our promises.
* We empower people to be accountable for their actions and performance.
* We help people with empathy, courtesy, dignity and kindness.
* We show respect and are trusted by our colleagues, suppliers and customers.
* We believe in teamwork and are passionate about our work.
* We encourage innovation and the development of technology.
* We embrace change and seek to achieve excellence.
* We deliver cost effective, efficient and safe healthcare solutions.
Qualifications and experience required.
* 5+ years in data-focused roles, ideally in complex environments
* Strong SQL Server and T-SQL experience, including performance tuning
* Proven delivery of data warehouse/reporting solutions
* Understanding of secure handling of sensitive data (e.g. patient or contract data)Key Technologies & Tools
* Databases & ETL: T-SQL, Power Query (M), SSMS, SSIS, Azure SQL
* BI Tools: Power BI, DAX, Paginated Reports, Excel Power Pivot
* Data Sources: TCES, Sage, bespoke systems
* Scripting (advantageous): Python, PowerShell, R
* Cloud & Storage: Azure Synapse, Azure Blob, Power Platform (desirable)
* Collaboration: SharePoint, Teams, Jira/DevOps
What we offer
* 33 days (inclusive of Bank Holidays)
* Company Bonus
* Car allowance
* Continued professional development, training and learning support and opportunities for career progression.
* Pension scheme
* Healthcare scheme
* Life assurance
* Cycle to work scheme
* Free eye test, provided by Specsavers
* 15% Manage At Home discount
* Care First employee assistance program including free counselling.
* Access to Perkbox discount platform
* Free DBS check
We welcome applications from all sections of the Community as an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are also happy to make any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process should you need it, please let us know.
We take our data privacy seriously and commit to processing your data in line with GDPR guidelines. Medequip's Privacy Notice sets out the basis on which the personal data collected from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed in connection with our recruitment processes.
This role may be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure and satisfactory references.
This role is not eligible for sponsorship. Candidates without satisfactory right to work in the UK are unlikely to be suitable.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Work Location: In person