Associate Data Engineer
Job summary
We are looking for a proactive and enthusiastic Band 6 Associate Data Engineer to join us and make substantial contributions to this work. The role will involve using your experience, skills and initiative to implement complex solutions, build datasets, analytical and reporting dashboards to provide insights that will enable clinical and operational services to monitor their operations, enhance processes and improve their performance.
As a cross functional team, you may be required to pick up tasks in any area or division at any time.
Main duties of the job
- Work with the senior data engineers on their proposed solutions to identified business objectives into actionable data projects; specifically with business users to identify critical questions, pain points, and challenges they face.
- Support development of solutions that deliver measurable business value, going beyond a mere checklist of technical requirements.
- Utilise new trust data platforms and other relevant tools to gather, analyse, and process large-scale datasets.
- Support and contribute towards the design phase of applications and ontology based on business requirements
- Develop and work alongside fellow Data Engineers and Data Warehouse teams to deploy scalable data pipelines, ensuring data integrity, quality, and reliability.
- Communicate findings and insights effectively to data engineers, enabling them to make informed business decisions.
- Respond to identified opportunities for turning exploratory or analytical applications into interactive operational workflows to drive business value with the guidance of the senior data engineers
About us
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of England's top-performing and safest trusts. We operate two main acute hospital sites--Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital--along with award-winning clinics across North West London.
Our nearly 7,500 staff care for a diverse population of 1.5 million, providing full clinical services, including maternity, A&E, and children's services, plus specialist HIV and sexual health clinics. The Care Quality Commission rates us 'Good' in safety, effectiveness, care, and responsiveness, and 'Outstanding' in leadership and resource use.
We continually invest in our facilities, including a £30m expansion of critical care at Chelsea and Westminster and an £80m Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre at West Middlesex.
We welcome applications for flexible working arrangements, accommodating requests where possible to support our staff and patient needs.
The Trust is committed to equality and welcomes applications from all, regardless of background. Adjustments can be made for disabled candidates. Early application is advised as vacancies may close once sufficient applications are received. If you haven't heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, your application was likely unsuccessful. Employment is subject to a six-month probationary period.
Some roles may require weekend shifts at multiple sites.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Management Responsibilities Support the delivery of service transformation projects within the sector which need toprovide in-depth triangulated intelligence to inform decision making, businessplanning, and the measurement of improvement in performance and quality. Support the fostering of a culture of customer service by working closely with thedecision-support function, responding effectively to the needs of the organisation andpro-actively seeking to add value to the organisation through information analyses,tools and methods. Support the fostering of close working relations with the Data, Digital, Performance, ICTand Finance departments in developing and maintaining quality information andinformation reporting systems. Contribute to the development of Information Management and Data Quality policiesand procedures to meet the needs of the Trust. Support, mentor and line manage junior staff where possible
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
- Educated to degree level in computer or information science, Engineering and or other technical disciplines or equivalent experience
- Educated to degree level in computer or information science, Engineering and or other technical disciplines or equivalent experience Evidence of post-qualifying continued professional development
- Evidence of post-qualifying continued professional development
- Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
Experience
- Ability to identify and understand business problems, translating them into effective solutions rather than focusing solely on delivering against a list of technical requirements
- Ability to structure, organize and drive projects in a constantly evolving environment
- Databases - general familiarity with common relational database models and proprietary instantiations
- Iterative working - familiarity with agile and iterative working methodology and rapid user feedback gathering concepts
- Data quality - best practices
- Familiarity with data visualization tools and techniques to effectively present findings.
- Experience of working with NHS information systems and datasets
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.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust
London
SW10 0XD
Employer's website
https://www.chelwest.nhs.uk/