Person Specification

Trust Values

Essential

• Putting patients first
• Responsive to patients and staff
• Open and honest
• Unfailingly kind
• Determined to develop

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Master’s levels (or equivalent experience) in computer science, data engineering, or related subject or equivalent experience

Desirable

• Business Intelligence, Data Management or related qualifications

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience in BI development, with expertise in QlikSense and other BI tools
• Experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
• Ability to present complex technical ideas/solutions to non-technical audiences
• Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders, fostering and maintaining good relationships throughout, including managing expectations and deliverables.
• Experience in working with databases namely experience in using SQL, including data transformation experience
• Data engineering and reporting experience
• Experiencing of creating robust data and reporting internal policies and documentation on, including following and creating best practice methods
• Documenting key information relating to processes on data work e.g. ETL pipelines, transformations, data models, integrations, workflows and similar.
• Experience of working with BI tools such as Qlik
• Analysing information in a health environment

Desirable

• Proven experience in analysing and interpreting complex datasets and dashboards
• Experience of warehouse and relational database design and object management
• Qlik platform administration and maintenance (including Qlik Cloud)

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of information management gained through senior management experience
• Understanding of role of NHS data standards, data definitions, information governance
• Knowledge of best practice data modelling and data reporting techniques, including creating documenting this and related activities
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both written and oral, at all levels, both within the trust and with external stakeholders
• Proficiency in querying and reporting against relational databases, Structured Query Language (SQL) or similar
• Expertise in QlikSense and other BI/data visualization tools.
• Understanding of data governance, data quality, and audit practices.
• Extensive knowledge of staff management gained through senior management experience and/or qualification
• Strong Project Management & MS Excel Skills

Desirable

• Highly data rational with the ability to use quantitative and qualitative information to stimulate improvement and provide assurance on data integrity
• Ability to use data science techniques and statistics, including use of Python/R
• Ability to manipulate data in data lakes using PySpark/Experience with cloud-based data architectures and scalable data solutions

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills
• Intellectually flexible and creative, challenging current ways of working to produce innovative outputs
• Highly developed negotiation and influencing skills
• Ability to manage and self-organise while dealing with multiple competing priorities
• Initiative and proactive approach to system/process improvement
• Commitment to continuous learning and keeping up with industry trends.

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).