Head of Data Engineering
Job summary
We are seeking an exceptional Head of Data Engineering (Band 8c) to lead the delivery and continuous development of our enterprise data warehouse and data platform.This is a pivotal senior leadership role responsible for ensuring the Trust's data warehouse provides high-quality, reliable and timely data to support clinical care, operational performance and strategic decision-making. You will lead the design, delivery and optimisation of data pipelines, integrations and data models, ensuring our platforms are scalable, secure and resilient.Join us to play a leading role in building a modern data platform that underpins analytics, insight and transformation across the Trust.We support flexible working and would expect the successful candidate to be based at offices in Brighton for a minimum of 2 days a week. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 13th July.
Please note: Due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules, this role may not be eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered. Candidates requiring sponsorship should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk website before applying to assess their eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.
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Main duties of the job
- Leading the delivery, operation and continuous development of the Trust's enterprise data warehouse, including evaluation, testing and continuous improvement, ensuring it is reliable, scalable, secure and meets clinical, operational and regulatory requirements
- Providing senior leadership and direction for the Trust's data engineering function, ensuring data platforms and services are safe, resilient, effective and aligned to organisational priorities.
- Planning, overseeing and prioritising the delivery and ongoing development of enterprise data platforms, data pipelines and data models to support operational, clinical and strategic decision-making.
- Managing and developing the data engineering workforce, including line management, performance management, capability building and workforce planning.
- Establishing and assuring engineering standards, governance and quality for data platforms, working closely with Information Governance, Digital and Cyber Security colleagues.
- Lead the development and implementation of organisation-wide policies, standards and procedures for data engineering and data platform services, ensuring alignment with national requirements and impacting across multiple service areas.
- Managing complex portfolios of work, balancing competing demands, resources, risks and dependencies, and acting as the senior escalation point for delivery issues.
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us? o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Accredited Living Wage Employer, we ensure fair pay for all our staffo Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
Our values-- Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence --guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide senior leadership and accountability for the design, development and operation of resilient, scalable and futureproof data engineering services, ensuring they meet current and emerging Trust, ICS and national requirements.
- Lead the delivery, evolution and scaling of the Trusts enterprise data warehouse and data platform, ensuring it continues to meet changing clinical, operational and regulatory needs, and remains secure, performant and costeffective.
- Set the strategic direction for, and oversee the delivery of, integrated data services and pipelines across key clinical and corporate systems (including SystmOne, BEST, IAPTUS and systemwide data sources), ensuring interoperability and reuse across the organisation and local system.
- Enable and accelerate the Trusts analytics and business intelligence capability by ensuring that highquality, wellengineered data products underpin reporting and insight delivery, throughout data provisioning toolsets.
- Provide strategic oversight of data ingestion, transformation and modelling activities, ensuring that standards for quality, security, accessibility, version control and reusability are embedded by design.
- Ensure robust information security, resilience and disaster recovery arrangements are in place for all data platforms and services, working closely with Information Governance, Cyber Security and Digital leadership.
- Work in close partnership with Performance, Analytics and informatics teams to build a culture of data curiosity and selfservice, enabling frontline and operational teams to access timely, meaningful insights to inform decisionmaking.
- Lead the Data Engineering function to deliver highquality, productionready solutions through modern agile and productcentred approaches, ensuring iterative improvement from prototype through to live services.
- Act as senior accountable owner for data engineering delivery, providing methodappropriate technical leadership, defining and enforcing development standards, and assuring the quality and sustainability of solutions.
- Plan, prioritise and oversee the delivery of multiple data engineering initiatives and workstreams at pace, effectively managing dependencies, risks and resources.
- Provide daytoday line management and professional leadership for the Data Engineering team, including performance management, capability development, workforce planning and succession.
- Foster strong, collaborative working relationships with the wider Performance and Analytics community, Digital teams and external partners to ensure alignment of priorities and delivery.
- Ensure value for money is embedded in all aspects of data engineering delivery, balancing quality, pace, risk and cost, and actively identifying opportunities for optimisation and reuse.
- Undertake additional responsibilities appropriate to the seniority of the role, including managing sensitive people matters and delegating authority appropriately across the function.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Experience equivalent to a Masters level qualification in Data, Digital, Computing / IT related subject.
- Qualifications or equivalent experience in Oracle, SQL Server, VB.net or other relevant systems.
Experience
- Leadership experience in a senior Data or Information Management role.
- Experience working and influencing at a senior level, building relationships in large and complex organisation.
- Experience leading Data Engineering teams to deliver complex data services for large organisation at pace.
- Experience in managing and maintaining a data warehouse within a large organisation.
- Extensive experience of developing a data warehouse to optimise performance.
- Experience with Database Administration for MSSQL Server.
- Services advanced skills with ETL, script tasks Microsoft Visual Basic/C#
- Experience in use of Qlik and/ or other Business Intelligence Tools.
- Experience working in an information development / analyst role supporting range of databases/systems.
- Experience of developing a range of reports for operational/functional managers.
- Knowledge / experience of using: SQL and TSQL advanced skills
- Knowledge / experience of using: SQL Server 2019 and laterSQL Server Integration Services advanced skills with ETL, script tasks Microsoft Visual Basic/C#
- Experience of: SystmOne (front end and back end data)
- Experience of: QlikView and QlikSense
- Experience of: Linux
- Experience of: Airbyte and Airflow
- Experience of: Podman
- Experience of: Powershell
- Experience of: Qvera Integration Engine
- Experience of: Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)
- Experience of: Relational database management systems (RDBMS)
- Experience of: Object oriented database management systems (OODBMS)
- Experience of: XML database management systems
- Experience of: Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 or later
- Experience of: HL7 and FHIR
- Experience in leading teams to troubleshooting and resolving database problems, minimising operational impact.
- Experience in Performance Tuning and Optimisation (PTO), using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
- Experience in implementation of resilient data platforms including with backups, restores and recovery models.
- Experience within a large, complex healthcare organisation (e.g. acute, community or integrated services), or other relevant sector experience.
- Experience of: Django
- Experience of: Python
- Experience of: MS Excel
- Experience of: SSIS package development
- Experience of: Kubanetes
Skills and knowledge
- Highly organised and logical thinker.
- Highly developed keyboard and digital system skills, requiring accuracy and precision when working across multiple complex data platforms and systems.
- Significant leadership and management experience.
- Ability to prioritise workloads and work to deadlines.
- Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for MSSQL Server.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Knowledge of the application and use of information within complex organisations.
- Excellent communicator, orally and in writing.
- Comprehensive practical knowledge of local and national data standards, governance requirements and system configuration within complex organisations.
- Ability to diagnose and identify system efficiency improvements or areas for innovation based on current service requirements.
- Ability to maintain concentration on complex work in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities and interruptions.
- Able to interpret and implement local and national Information Management strategies.
- Self-motivated and able to work autonomously.
- Able to apply creative problem solving and ideas generation to large-scale and complex business critical IT issues.
- A demonstrable track record of reliability and delivering on commitments and objectives.
- Able to anticipate future requirements and be proactive in responding to these.
- Ability to demonstrate effective coaching and facilitation skills and to deliver training in subjects related to role.
- Ability to negotiate effectively and to persuade and influence others.
- Ability to effectively communicate with groups of staff at all levels in the organisation.
Skills and knowledge
- Able to establish credibility and good relationships with internal and external stakeholders at a senior level.
- Able to communicate the business risks and advantages of technically complicated developments in order to allow business involvement in choice and risk management.
Other requirements
- An understanding of the principles of equal opportunities in relation to staff and service users.
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
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Brighton General Hospital
Elm Grove
Brighton
BN2 3EW
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/work-with-us/