Informatics Development Manager

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust; Metchley; On-site; GBP 66,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust invites an experienced Informatics Development Manager to lead the data engineering, data platform and analytics capability. Following Epic EPR and Caboodle, you will unlock value from clinical and operational data, shape the data architecture and grow advanced analytics to support reporting and decision‑making.

You will lead a specialist team across data engineering and analytics, partnering with clinical leaders to transform care and

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent in data science, computer science, analytics or related field.
• Proven CPD in data engineering, analytics or informatics.
• Professional certification or training in data platforms, cloud technologies or analytics tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead data engineering and data platform capability.
• Ensure high-quality, well-structured data for reporting and analytics.
• Develop advanced analytics capability including forecasting and modelling.
• Set strategy for data architecture, tools and platforms.
• Build partnerships with clinical and operational leaders and external organisations.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Data platforms leadership

Analytics leadership

SQL Server

Data warehousing

ETL/ELT

Power BI

Python

R

Stakeholder management

Education

Master’s degree in data science / computer science / analytics

Tools

SSIS

Caboodle

Epic

Job description

Search through the open vacancies at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s.

This is YOUR place

• To be at the heart of brilliant care for women, children and young people.
• Where innovation, compassion, and opportunity meet to help transform lives.
• To make a unique impact from day one. As one of only two centres in the UK for women, children, and young people, this is where you can help bring prize-winning discoveries and game-changing innovations to life.
• To grow a thriving career and unlock your potential. Our unique and vast specialisms provide opportunities you won’t find anywhere else. No matter the career path you choose – you’ll have unwavering support for your ambition and a real investment in your learning.
• To discover a community of support. Where our strength comes from our people, who come from every walk of life and who work shoulder-to-shoulder across every discipline. Here, you’ll find a deep camaraderie and the support to take control of your career and find your passion – on the best days, and the toughest.

This is Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Trust.

This is your place, our place, the place.

Site Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital Town Birmingham Salary £66,582 - £77,368 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 23/08/2026 23:59

Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Informatics Development Manager to lead the Trust’s data engineering, data platform and analytics capability.

This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of data and analytics within one of the UK's leading specialist NHS organisations at a pivotal point in its digital transformation journey.

Following the recent implementation of the Epic Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system and Epic Caboodle enterprise data warehouse, the Trust has access to an unprecedented breadth and depth of clinical and operational data. We are now looking for a leader who can help unlock the full value of these data assets, developing the data platform, expanding analytics capability and establishing the foundations for advanced analytics and data science.

You will lead a specialist team delivering data engineering and analytics services, ensuring the Trust has a robust, scalable and future-focused data capability that underpins reporting, insight, innovation and decision-making across the organisation.

About the Role

This role sits at the heart of our Informatics function and is responsible for:

• Leading the Trust’s data engineering and data platform capability
• Ensuring high-quality, well-structured data is available to support reporting and analytics
• Developing and leading advanced analytics capability, including predictive and modelling approaches
• Setting the strategic direction for data architecture, tools and platforms
• Building partnerships with clinical teams, operational leaders and external organisations

This role offers the opportunity to work at the centre of a major organisational transformation. The implementation of Epic has significantly expanded the Trust’s data landscape, creating new opportunities to curate, model and exploit data in ways that were not previously possible. The successful candidate will play a leading role in determining how these new data assets are utilised to improve patient care, operational performance and organisational effectiveness.

Main duties of the job

Who We’re Looking For

This role would particularly suit candidates who are excited by the opportunity to build capability and shape services, rather than simply maintain existing ones. We are looking for someone who can help define the next phase of the Trust’s data journey, taking advantage of the opportunities created by Epic and helping establish advanced analytics and data science as core organisational capabilities.

We recognise that candidates may come from different backgrounds. We are particularly interested in applicants who have:

• A strong foundation in one of the following:

• Data Engineering / Data Platform leadership
• Analytics / Business Intelligence / Data Science leadership

And the ability to:

• Lead end-to-end data and analytics capability, even if your technical background is stronger in one area
• Work across technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating complex requirements into deliverable solutions
• Set strategy, direction and standards for data and analytics services

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What You’ll Bring

You will ideally have:

• Significant experience of leading data, analytics or informatics services in a complex organisation
• Strong understanding of:

• Data platforms, data warehousing and ETL processes
• Analytics and insight generation (including advanced analytics approaches)
• Experience working with large, complex datasets
• Experience engaging with senior stakeholders, including clinical and executive colleagues

• Experience leading teams, services and programmes

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Important Note on Skillsets

We recognise that candidates are unlikely to have deep technical expertise in both data engineering and advanced analytics.

We welcome applications from candidates who:

• Have depth in one area (e.g. engineering or analytics)
• And demonstrate the ability to lead across both domains

Please refer to the JD/PS attachment to see details of which of the Person Specification criteria are essential/desirable for engineering led or analytics led applications.

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Interviews expected to take place in the last 2 weeks of September

Working for our organisation

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neonatal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward

Person specification

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant subject (e.g. Data Science, Computer Science, Analytics, Statistics)
• Evidence of continuing professional development in data engineering, analytics or informatics
• Professional certification or formal training in data platforms, cloud technologies or analytics tools

Knowledge & Nature of Experience

• Experience translating business, operational or clinical requirements into technical or analytical solutions
• Significant depth of experience in EITHER: Data engineering, data platforms, database development or data warehousing (engineering-led) OR Analytics, advanced analytics or data science (analytics-led)
• Demonstrable ability to work across both domains and lead teams covering data engineering and analytics functions
• Extensive experience of SQL Server database management, including performance optimisation and indexing strategies
• Extensive data warehouse management experience specializing in managing a medium-to-large data warehouse and associated data structures
• Significant experience of designing and managing data warehouses and ETL/ELT pipelines
• Advanced querying skills using T-SQL or equivalent against large relational database management systems
• Experience of extracting, transforming and loading complex data from multiple clinical and corporate systems
• Experience of database design and data modelling within a healthcare or complex organisational environment
• Proven experience in the generation of SSIS packages
• Experience of developing or leading analytics / data science capability
• Experience of interpreting and analysing complex information and presenting it in a simplified manner.
• Extensive experience of supporting clinical and operational teams through provision of high-quality information and analysis
• Experience of interpreting and analysing data and applying this to inform decision-making
• Experience of advanced analytical approaches such as forecasting, statistical modelling or segmentation
• Experience generating reports and dashboards using business intelligence tools such as Power BI or equivalent
• Experience of handling, analysing and manipulating large, complex datasets in a secure and controlled manner
• Experience communicating complex technical or analytical information to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience developing relationships with external partners including other NHS organisations, academia or industry
• Experience of working within NHS data standards, data dictionary and reporting requirements
• Experience of using analytics or data science tools and languages (e.g. Python, R or equivalent) to enable advanced analytics and insight generation
• Experience of working with Electronic Patient Record systems (e.g. Epic) and associated data platforms such as Caboodle

Analytical and Judgement Skills

• Highly developed analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex datasets and derive insight
• Ability to lead on highly complex, non-routine problems
• Ability to translate organisational challenges into analytical approaches and solutions
• Ability to evaluate and implement advanced data engineering or analytical methodologies
• Ability to make strategic decisions on data architecture, platforms and analytics approaches
• Ability to assess risk and impact of data, systems and analytical outcomes
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to provide detailed informatics and technical advice to both other specialists and non-IT or Informatics staff.
• Excellent written and verbal skills.
• Ability to manage own workload as well as the workload of staff.
• Ability to use own initiative to determine the most appropriate methods to achieve expected work tasks and outcomes.
• Ability to strategically plan architectural design of databases or data models for future deployment and reporting
• Detailed technical understanding of Software Development Processes

Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge

• Understanding of data governance, data quality and information standards
• Understanding of analytics governance, model assurance and ethical use of data
• Knowledge of emerging technologies and trends in data engineering and analytics
• Data Warehouse Extract, Transformation and Load (ETL) concepts and methodology
• Knowledge of analytics tools and approaches including data visualisation, modelling and insight generation
• Knowledge of analytics tools and approaches including data visualisation, modelling and insight generation
• Knowledge and understanding of procedures and guidelines around NHS central returns, commissioning datasets and contract monitoring.
• Highly specialist detailed knowledge of data management and core business such (e.g. 18 weeks Referral to Treatment Time) and being able to apply technical database design skills to this very complex rules set.

Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes

• Ability to work under pressure within tight deadlines
• Ability to build positive relations within and outside the organisation, with health professionals and managers.
• Ability to influence and interact with people at various levels including senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively in a team.
• Confident, highly motivated and able to use own initiative.
• Ability to resolve problems effectively
• Significant attention to detail, given the nature of the role needs advanced concentration and highly developed analytical skills with a drive for accuracy

Sponsorship:

Please note, visa sponsorship is only available for certain roles in line with current UKVI regulations. Please ensure the role you are interested in meets the criteria for sponsorship before submitting your application. If you would like more information, please visit: UK Visas and Immigration - GOV.UK

Artificial Intelligence (AI):

We understand that some applicants may choose to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in preparing their application materials. While this is not discouraged, we kindly remind candidates that all submissions must be truthful and accurately reflect your own experiences and suitability for this role. Personal integrity and authenticity are central to our recruitment process. We value honesty and appreciate applications that are genuine and representative of the individual behind them.

Reasonable Adjustments:

BWC is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to fostering an inclusive environment for those with a disability, long term health or mental health condition. The Disability Confident scheme means we actively encourage applications from people with disabilities, long term health or mental health conditions, and we want to ensure our recruitment practices are inclusive and accessible to all. Our aim is to get the best out of every individual and if successful for interview, you will be asked if you require any reasonable adjustments (special requirements). We will strive to support and accommodate these requests where possible.

Safeguarding

As a Trust employee you are required to comply with all legislation and guidance relating to safeguarding children and adults with care and support needs, and promoting their health and welfare. You are required to inform the Head of Safeguarding of any safeguarding concerns about your own children or children you live with. This information will be treated in a confidential manner.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Application numbers

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward