Job Title: Senior Data Engineer
Agency: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 47,810 – £ 54,710 / Year
Job Summary
Are you a data engineering expert? Are you passionate about the essential role that data plays in a large NHS organisation? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to make a real impact on healthcare outcomes.
At the heart of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s ambitious Digital Strategy is the provision of high-quality data to support intelligence-led decision making.
The successful candidate would be expected to work on-site at least three days per week.
This vacancy may close before the closing date if a large volume of applications is received.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Data Engineer in the Data Platform team, you will:
- Designs, builds, and maintains the data platform, including storage, data movement, and transformation.
- Use data modelling and engineering skills to support operational systems, business intelligence, and analytics.
- Select the most effective methods to design efficient data engineering processes.
- Optimise performance of the data platform.
- Contribute to the development and enforcement of departmental standards to ensure consistency, accuracy, reliability, and compliance.
- Produce and maintain high-quality documentation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in a numerate discipline, preferably mathematics, computing or statistics
- Specialist knowledge and expertise in data engineering, equivalent to postgraduate degree level
Desirable
- Member of a professional body
Education / Experience
Essential
- Advanced knowledge of a programming language such as SQL, Python, R or similar
- Significant specialist knowledge/experience of data warehousing
Desirable
- Knowledge of clinical terminology
- Knowledge of the NHS data model and standards
- Significant experience in analysing NHS data
- Experience in supervising and developing staff
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.
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).
Closing Date: 20 November 2025
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