Principal Data Engineer
Job summary
Passionate about how digital can transform healthcare, for our donors, patients and colleagues? We have an exciting Digital Services team opportunity for a Principal Data Engineer, to work collaboratively across the Trust and wider NHS Wales, to provide transformative digital systems and insight-led services. We are in an exciting period of change including opening a new world class cancer centre to extend and enhance specialist cancer treatment along with delivery of cancer care closer to home at regional sites. For the Welsh Blood Service, we are transforming blood and transplant services, improving current capabilities alongside developing new services including plasma for medicines. An ambitious digital strategy underpins this, which will revolutionise the way in which we deliver services - from co-producing innovative technologies, working on digital inclusion, to embedding data & insight into our everyday. Our team are here to deliver new digital solutions and excellent everyday digital service, to improve services and outcomes. We recognise that successful digital transformation and service is as much to do with our people and culture as it is to do with technology.
Main duties of the job
You will:
- Use your leadership, technical and communication skills to lead the development, analysis, interpretation, delivery and communication of our programmes of work, improving the efficiency and quality of our data flows and pipelines, developing and embedding data standards and supporting our migration into the cloud, to support delivery of our digital strategy.
- Apply and share your excellent technical knowledge across a range of Data Engineering domains including: SQL, SQL servers, SSMS, SSRS, SSAS and SSIS, Cloud (Azure, Google), Azure DevOps, databases and ETL / ELT pipelines.
- Provide operational day-to-day management of delivery of the engineering portfolio, and in conjunction with peers, ensure tasks are resourced to meet the high standard of quality and timeliness expected.
- Support the governance of data through creating and maintaining standardised processes, documentation and version control
- Support the Assistant Director of Data & Insight to continue to shape, establish, and operate the Trust-wide Data & Insight as part of the Digital Services team, working to embed a user-centric, agile ethos into our ways of working.
About us
Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edge Velindre Cancer Centre and ouraward-winning Welsh Blood Service, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services.
Formed in 1999, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to apply the key principles of value based healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being; accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors.
If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference and offers exciting career opportunities then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.
Visit our website to find out more https://velindre.nhs.wales/
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person Specification
Essential Experience & Skills: Technical leadership & data platforms
- Describe a programme, system or service where you led the design or modernisation of a data platform or data warehouse.
Essential Experience & Skills: Delivery, prioritisation & people leadership
- Provide an example of when you led a team to deliver complex data or digital work under competing priorities or tight timescales.
Essential Experience & Skills: Stakeholder engagement, governance & judgement
- Describe a situation where you had to balance technical, governance or regulatory requirements with stakeholder needs to deliver a data solution.
Desirable Experience & Skills: Technical leadership & data platforms
- Describe a project where you migrated a legacy data warehouse (and flows) from an on-Premise server to the cloud.
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
Velindre University NHS Trust
Address
Velindre University NHS Trust locations: Whitchurch, Nantgarw, Talbot Green
Cardiff
CF15 7QZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://velindre.nhs.wales/