Data Architect

Job description

Job responsibilities

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

To be the Trust specialist on designing and developing distributed processing of large data sets, data mining, ingestion, orchestration, in-memory technologies, and data lakes/warehousing.

The Data Architect is expected to undertake duties of an unpredictable and highly complex nature in the course of their duties in the provision of specialist skills relating to data architecture principles and their application across complex analytics and insights to the Trust. The post holder will, in the course of their duties need to interpret, analyse, and synthesize data into results and findings that can be understood by non-technical colleagues.

To support the data management programme, with responsibility in ensuring the development is carried out as a cross-functional team cognoscente each person has defined roles and responsibilities and contributes to our aims and objectives. The post holder will need to ensure effective and timely delivery progress to schedule and quality.

The post holder will need to be able to respond to sudden unexpected demands, for example providing guidance and specialist technical skills to enable new returns at national level or addressing a clinical need within the locality, whilst managing existing competing pressures at the same time within their service delivery.

Be responsible for supporting remediation and recovery activities where there may not be a precedent; identifying and addressing under-performing delivery aspects and providing guidance to their operational team to help bring them back on track.

The post holder will devise and provide highly specialised advice and guidance on data ingestion, orchestration, modelling, data mining, Cloud services, and including the development of unstructured health related data sets and information. The post holder will provide assessments, recommendations, and planning on the use of emerging Cloud technologies.

Advise on the identification and acquisition of diverse data sets from a range of internal and disparate public sources.

Advise on the specification and development of processes for highly complex datasets using a wide-ranging technical and analytical skill-set.

Advise on the automation and scheduling of the extraction and processing of large and complex data sets across distributed platforms. To proactively seek sophisticated, scalable solutions to Information and reporting problems that ensure the Trust can evolve in an increasingly demanding climate.

The post holder will support Trust software development requirements for data driven services and act as a specialist on data integration and enterprise data architecture.

To promote the integrity and governance of the data extracted and held in Trust systems.

To tutor and support colleagues in appropriate scripting, modelling, and other techniques for the new data platform.

To work collaboratively with analysts and service leads on supporting their local requirements and meeting the business needs of the organisation.

To ensure thorough documentation and change control processes are in place, accessible and maintained for all processes and developments.

Experience and knowledge of the latest industry-leading database technologies, general-purpose programming languages.

Experience and knowledge of designing scalable, relational databases.

Comply with all legal, regulatory and Trust requirements including policies, standing financial instructions, standing orders and procedures.

Undertake other duties as required commensurate with the post.

The Job Description is solely a guide and an example of the kinds of job duties that the post holder is expected to undertake within the grade.

This Job Description will be subject to regular review in line with the changing requirements of the NHS and associated IM&T developments and may be changed following consultation with the post holder.

CORE SKILLS

Human Resources

Responsible for line management of own team in line with appropriate policies, procedures, working practices and guidelines, ensuring all resources are deployed to maximise an efficient and effective delivery of support services to patients and users.

Undertake and support the development of staff (if applicable) in line with personal development reviews and other associated guidance.

Provide training for staff (if applicable) from own or other disciplines on own subject area, when required.

On occasion the post holder may be required to work unsociable hours to support and/or enable the delivery of key programmes or projects.

Provide regular performance reports on progress, status and achievements for own area to be used by both management and users.

Financial/Physical Resources

Ensure the robust management of financial resources allocated to own areas and make proposals to maximise those resources through budget setting, recharges, long term financial planning and cost saving opportunities.

Be responsible for the safe use of ICT hardware and software, including installation, repair and maintenance.

Monitor the maintenance and support contracts allocated to own area, ensuring continuity of service and budget management. Liaise with third party suppliers to identify and evaluate potential value for money contracts.

Liaise with external agencies, suppliers and contractors ensuring delivery of service is in line with agreed contracts.

Contribute to business appraisals and business case production when required in partnership with NHS stake holders. Undertake solution searches and appraisals of supplier proposals.

Ensure Trust procurement processes and procedures are followed in a timely and efficient manner and participate in the procurement process where relevant, providing assistance for the development and assessment of procurement documentation as required.

Ensure the post holder adheres to Trust Standing Financial Instructions (SFIs).

Project Management

Advise and participate in the development and implementation of projects, where required, ensuring Informatics provision of integrated solutions and user objectives are achieved.

Ensure project tasks, where required, are successfully delivered in line with agreed timescales and budgets.

Support the activities of project boards and project teams, when required, and making presentations, where required, to all levels of staff.

Where required; lead work streams as part of projects for system implementations.

Ensure any project management documentation or reports are delivered in line with agreed standards and timescales.

Policy/Service Development/Governance

Act as an ambassador for the Christie Informatics Service by developing and maintaining excellent working relationships with users across organisations to deliver a high quality, standard IT culture to achieve local requirements and national targets.

Lead in the development and maintenance of a culture of service provision and continuous improvement for own areas.

Be responsible for implementing policies for own work area and for proposing changes to policies, in line with legislation, Trust and NHS policies and guidelines across the Trust, where appropriate.

Pro-actively participate in ensuring that Informatics services delivered within the Trust reflect best practice with respect to organisational, NHS and legislative requirements and guidelines including IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Data Protection Act (1998), Information Standards, Information Security and compliance with NHS Information Governance.

Participate in Information Governance and security as required and ensure appropriate governance and security in own area.

Participate in quality management system, undertaking audits designed to improve IT systems and services.

Ensure change management is applied in own areas and follows implemented policies and procedures.

Ensure all documentation relating to own area is complete and fit for purpose and all releases relating to hardware, software and documentation is controlled.

Ensure there is a proactive and comprehensive approach to risk management and be responsible for service continuity for own area and participate in the Informatics service continuity planning.

Provide Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for allocated incidents and problems as directed; instigating emergency action, when required, liaising with other Trust Managers, as appropriate.

Business Continuity Management

Contribute to the development, exercising, maintaining and reviewing of business continuity plans.

Participate in the business impact analysis exercises highlighting critical business processes within own area.

Be familiar with the Trust Business Continuity Plan and personal responsibilities within where applicable.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Masters' degree or equivalent qualification and / or relevant experience.

• Microsoft Certifications

Experience

• In depth experience of at least one mainstream modern data platform
• Experience of working with and manipulating large relational datasets
• Implementation of a data warehouse solution
• Experience of working with unstructured data

• Delivery of business intelligence and visualization platforms/tools.
• NHS experience
• Experience of working with Azure DevOps and database projects

Skills

• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to work on their own while maintaining a team approach
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines. Good organisation skills and able to prioritise workload.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines. Good organisation skills and able to prioritise workload.

• Experience of working with Python programming language

Knowledge

• Specialist understanding and application of data architecture principles and strategy, able to demonstrate how information and data analysis is utilised to drive intelligence led decision-making in complex organisations
• Understanding of cloud data management platforms and services

• Knowledge and experience of distributed data processing understanding data, agile methodology and DevOps

Values

• Ability to demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours

Other

• Evidence of continuing professional and personal Development.
• Travel to Christie managed sites as necessary.
• Ability to undertake work out-of-hours, on weekends and Public Holidays as required by exception.

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

The Christie NHS FT

Address

Business Intelligence & Software Development - E00413

Manchester

M20 4BX

Employer's website

https://www.christie.nhs.uk/