Lead Data Engineer

Barbican, London | Hybrid Working (1-2 office days a week) | Fixed Term Contract | Full-Time 

Competitive salary available, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week 

At Nuffield Health, everything we give our patients, members and customers would not be possible without you.  Your passion, your warmth, your drive to make a difference.  Whether it’s driving connecting health, helping the nation, transforming experiences, or building the career you want – we give you the support to do it all.  Join our journey.  It starts with you. 

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Lead Data Engineer for a fixed-term contract role that will provide additional leadership capacity and support our in-house Lead Data Engineer with overseeing multiple workstreams and data engineers delivering these workstreams. The team is responsible for integrating, transforming and making data available across the whole of the organisation, building, and maintaining data pipelines for our on-prem databases and cloud data warehouse, making this a high profile and rewarding opportunity. 

You’ll be a lead engineer with many years of integration and data modelling/data warehouse experience, as well as being great at managing and coaching your engineers. You’ll be confident in solving data problems and be able to clearly communicate your ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders and bring about change. You’ll also be working with some of the industry-leading data technologies and will be given the opportunity to develop your expertise in these as well as your broader career. 

Responsibilities will include: 

• Oversee multiple workstreams and data engineers working to deliver these workstreams. 

• Work alongside our Lead Data Engineer to deliver our data engineering strategy covering standards, policies, tools, and techniques, to drive the team and practice forward. 

• Work with DevOps and QA communities to enable transformation to an automated, continuous deployment model. 

• Coach engineers in building the best solutions and automating testing and deployment of their code. 

• Work closely with Architects to define best-in-class data integration, management, and reporting solutions; ensuring technical complexity is managed, documented, and shared, to make sure solutions are easily maintained and reusable. 

• Design and implementation of appropriate observability (monitoring and alerting) across our Data platforms. 

You should have: 

• Experience working with ETL/ELT tools, including Azure Data Factory and dbt, developing a wide variety of integration solutions incorporating APIs, files, databases, etc.  

• Experience with database platforms, including Snowflake, Azure SQL Database and MS SQL Server, along with excellent SQL skills. 

• Experience with performance tuning, data migration strategies both on-prem and cloud, and relational database design, particularly in the development of business intelligence solutions. 

• Experience of working with a wide variety of stakeholders including product owners, delivery managers, architects, and third-party suppliers.  

• Experience with data masking policies, GDPR, auditing access and securing sensitive data sets. 

• Experience of communicating and documenting technical design proposals 

• Experience coaching, mentoring, and guiding Data Engineers 

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills 

You might have: 

• Experience with transforming data using Python along with an understanding of data science and the underlying data engineering needed to make it work. 

• Experience with DataOps, automating the promotion and release of data engineering artefacts, automating testing and pipeline optimisation. 

• Experience providing support, sometimes on-call, for your data systems. 

We will provide: 

• A wide variety of interesting and challenging work that involves most of Nuffield Health’s systems, as well as working with a variety of key stakeholders such as data analysts, data scientists and business intelligence teams. 

• An environment where you will be given responsibility to develop your ideas and solutions. You will be working within a community of technologists, where your opinions are valued and contribute to the engineering standards and practices adopted. 

• Opportunities to learn and develop your career through apprenticeships, self-learning, mentoring and/or training courses. Career progression is encouraged and opportunities to move both within the team and wider are possible. 

• An environment that allows you to perform at your best, working collaboratively with like-minded colleagues who are focussed on improving the health of our nation and making a real difference to peoples’ everyday lives. 

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

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