Advanced Data Engineer

Public Health Wales; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Public Health Wales is looking for an Advanced Data Engineer to enhance the health and well-being of the people of Wales. The role involves improving data practices, automating processes, and collaborating with technical teams to build robust data infrastructures. As a champion for data engineering, you'll play a key role in modernising our data capabilities while ensuring compliance with safety and ethical standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in data engineering and development practices.
• Strong understanding of GDPR and data compliance standards.
• Proficient in Microsoft Stack and data security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain data models, pipelines, and metadata management.
• Collaborate with teams to align data architecture with organizational goals.
• Ensure data consistency, accuracy, and timeliness across systems.

Skills

Data Security

Data Ingestion

Azure DevOps

Power BI

Collaboration

Tools

SQL Server

SSMS

SSIS

SSRS

Job description

Are you a data engineer with a passion for public service? Then maybe you’re looking for us!

We are seeking an experienced and skilled Advanced Data Engineer to be part of a growing team that delivers on our mission of protecting and improving the health and wellbeing of the people of Wales. You’ll be involved in improving our data practices, cataloguing our data, automating our data processing, analytical pipelines and developing our overall data maturity.

Working with us you’ll collaborate with other technical specialists (such as developers, database administrators, data analysts and data scientists) on the development, implementation, maintenance, and improvement of robust, efficient, secure, and scalable data infrastructure. You’ll play a key role in communicating between technical and non-technical; listening to, interpreting and translating the needs of technical and business stakeholders to ensure shared understanding and effective solutions.

You’ll be a champion for data engineering as a profession, agile development practices and methods such as CI/CD. You’ll support the development of the team’s reporting capabilities, making use of the Microsoft Stack (SQL Server, SSMS, SSIS & SSRS), Power BI and Azure DevOps.

By building robust data platforms, pipelines, and catalogues and by defining the metadata, models and schema that underpin our data decision-making, you’ll be right at the heart of modernising and improving the way we do things.

Accountabilities

• Implement enterprise data models, pipelines, and metadata management
• Develop and maintain data platform components (e.g. data catalogue, data lake, warehouse, ETL frameworks)
• Follow best practice in data security, compliance, and the ethical use of data in accordance with standards and requirements such as GDPR and Cyber Essentials Plus
• Implement robust data ingestion and integration frameworks that ensure data consistency, accuracy, and timeliness across our systems.
• Collaborate with business, product, and engineering teams to understand data needs and translate them into functional data products, aligning our data architecture with wider organisational digital strategies and priorities
• Provide technical guidance to other specialists, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continuous learning and following engineering standards
• Support the delivery of strategic projects
  
  

Please refer to the attached job profile for more details.

We are Public Health Wales – the national public health agency in Wales. Our purpose is ‘Working together for a healthier Wales'. We exist to help everyone in Wales live longer, healthier, happier lives. Together with our partners, we work to increase healthy life expectancy, improve health and well-being, and reduce inequalities for everyone in Wales, now and for future generations.

Our teams work to prevent disease, protect health, and provide leadership, specialist services and public health expertise. We are the leading source of public health information, research and innovation in Wales. In a world facing complex health challenges, our work has never been so important.

We are guided by our Values, 'Working together, with trust and respect, to make a difference'. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace that values equality and diversity. We welcome applications which represent the rich diversity of the communities we serve and are supportive of flexible working arrangements, including part time roles and job sharing.

To find out more about working for us and the benefits we offer please visit https://phw.nhs.wales/careers/

For guidance on the application process, please visit https://phw.nhs.wales/working-for-us/applicant-information-and-guidance/

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Fliss Bennee Job title: Head of Data Email address: [e-mail]