Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer - Data Engineering

Barbican & Epsom Hybrid Working (1 office day per week) Permanent Full-Time

Competitive salary available depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health everything we give our patients members and customers starts with our people. Your passion your expertise and your drive to make a difference enable us to deliver exceptional connected healthcare and fitness experiences.

Were looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team responsible for making data available and trusted across the whole of Nuffield Health. This is a role with real ownership: youll own a functional area of our data platform lead delivery initiatives and line manage engineers setting the standards patterns and direction that the wider team follows.

Our Data Engineering team operates a distributed leadership model. Each Senior Data Engineer owns a defined functional area such as ingestion and integration incident management and observability governance security and cost management or CI/CD and DevOps and is accountable for the standards and resilience of that area so that nothing depends on a single person. Seniors lead delivery initiatives and line manage engineers with the Lead Data Engineer retaining overall technical direction and the roadmap. Youll work with industry-leading technologies including Snowflake dbt Azure Data Factory Talend SQL Server New Relic and Terraform.

Could you play a key role in that

As our Senior Data Engineer youll:

• Own a defined functional area of the data platform setting the standards patterns and tooling the team follows within it and acting as the first point of contact for questions in that area.
• Avoid becoming a single point of dependency by documenting your work and helping other engineers develop the knowledge and skills needed to support your area treating knowledge transfer as an ongoing obligation rather than a one-off handover.
• Lead delivery initiatives end to end planning resourcing and delivering against agreed constraints in collaboration with Product Owners Delivery Managers architects and third-party suppliers.
• Line manage engineers including objectives development plans and reviews and line manage external or temporary resource aligned to your initiatives for their duration.
• Design build and operate robust ingestion integration and transformation solutions on Snowflake dbt and Azure in line with Nuffield Healths enterprise architecture and data engineering standards.
• Ensure solutions are operationally ready observable and supportable and contribute to incident and problem management as part of the teams service management approach.
• Coach mid-level engineers to take ownership of epics and smaller initiatives within their squad growing the next generation of leaders in the team.
• Contribute to the teams technical roadmap BAU planning and engineering maturity including documentation code quality branching and testing standards.
• Escalate cross-cutting risks dependencies and unassigned questions to the Lead Data Engineer and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

To succeed as Senior Data Engineer youll bring:

• Substantial hands-on data engineering experience across integration data modelling and data warehousing with excellent SQL skills.
• Experience with ETL/ELT tools (e.g. Talend Azure Data Factory dbt) and database platforms (e.g. MS SQL Server Snowflake Azure SQL Database) including developing integration solutions using APIs files and databases.
• Experience with performance tuning data migration strategies (on premise and cloud) and relational database design particularly in support of business intelligence.
• Experience setting and upholding engineering standards and taking ownership of quality and outcomes for a technical area.
• Experience leading the delivery of a project or initiative working with Product Owners Delivery Managers architects and third-party suppliers to manage scope dependencies and risk.
• Line management or mentoring experience or a clear appetite to develop it with structured support.
• Excellent communication skills including documenting technical design proposals and translating complex technical concepts for technical and non-technical audiences.

Desirable:

• Observability and incident management tooling such as New Relic and ServiceNow.
• CI/CD DevOps and infrastructure as code such as Terraform and Azure DevOps.
• Data governance and security: data masking GDPR access auditing PII handling role-based access and cloud cost management.
• Experience in healthcare or another regulated environment.

We will provide:

• A wide variety of interesting and challenging work that involves most of Nuffield Healths systems working with key stakeholders such as data analysts data scientists and business intelligence teams.
• Genuine ownership of a functional area and the initiatives you lead within a community of data engineers where your opinions shape the standards and practices we adopt.
• A structured path into technical leadership and people management: training pathways shadowing and reverse shadowing a Seniors peer group and regular reviews with the Lead Data Engineer.
• Opportunities to learn and develop your career through apprenticeships self-learning mentoring and training courses with progression encouraged both within the team and across Nuffield Health.
• An environment that allows you to perform at your best working collaboratively with colleagues who are focused on improving the health of our nation and making a real difference to peoples everyday lives.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work feeling healthy happy and valued. Thats why weve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here you can choose from a range of fitness lifestyle health and fitness wellbeing rewards such as free gym membership health assessments retail discounts and pension options.

At Nuffield Health we take care of whats important to you.

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 its a good idea to apply right away to ensure youre considered for this role.

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