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Principal data engineer

Manchester
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Data engineer
Posted: 31 August
Offer description

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.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Job description
Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

* Masters' degree or equivalent qualification and / or relevant experience
Desirable

* Microsoft Data Platform Certifications
Knowledge & Expirence

Essential

* Substantial NHS experience
* Implementation of data warehouse and data lake solutions
* Experience of working with and manipulating large relational datasets
* Delivery of dashboarding and advanced visualisations
* Experience of working with operational and clinical datasets
* SQL databases, multidimensional modelling, ingestion, orchestration, reporting, and visualisations
* Advanced SQL
* Expression/query languages
* Experience of developing in R/Python
* CI/CD development practices, agile methodology, and DevOps
Desirable

* Knowledge of Acute, Community, and Mental Health Trust NHS data sets, standards, and returns
* Cloud data management - ingestion, transformation, orchestration, compute, and modelling
* Understanding of Data science methodology and technologies
* Experience of visualisation platform administration, training, promotion, and maintenance
Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

* Masters' degree or equivalent qualification and / or relevant experience
Desirable

* Microsoft Data Platform Certifications
Knowledge & Expirence

Essential

* Substantial NHS experience
* Implementation of data warehouse and data lake solutions
* Experience of working with and manipulating large relational datasets
* Delivery of dashboarding and advanced visualisations
* Experience of working with operational and clinical datasets
* SQL databases, multidimensional modelling, ingestion, orchestration, reporting, and visualisations
* Advanced SQL
* Expression/query languages
* Experience of developing in R/Python
* CI/CD development practices, agile methodology, and DevOps
Desirable

* Knowledge of Acute, Community, and Mental Health Trust NHS data sets, standards, and returns
* Cloud data management - ingestion, transformation, orchestration, compute, and modelling
* Understanding of Data science methodology and technologies
* Experience of visualisation platform administration, training, promotion, and maintenance
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 .

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. .

Additional information
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 .

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. .

Employer details

Employer name

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Address

Manchester University Foundation Trust

Trafford House, Southmoor Rd

Wythenshawe, Manchester

M23 9NR

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