Junior Data Engineer | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Seaton Delaval; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Junior Data Engineer to enhance patient care through data analytics. Responsibilities include technical development of data processes, stakeholder engagement, and maintaining data quality. Candidates are expected to stay updated with advancements in data technologies. This position offers a commitment to continuous learning and improvement, with the advert closing on Sunday 30 Nov 2025.

Qualifications

• Passion for data and analytics with a focus on patient care.
• Technical proficiency in data management processes.
• Ability to work with stakeholders to implement solutions.

Responsibilities

• Participate in delivery management for data solutions.
• Implement data management processes under guidance.
• Maintain expertise in emerging data technologies.
• Involve in data quality improvement projects.

Skills

Data analysis

Data management

Stakeholder engagement

Technical development

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

Do you have a passion for data? Do you have a yearning to turn data into insights, and to enhance the delivery of patient care and safety through rigorous analysis? Are you looking for a role where you will be exploring advances in technologies, learning new skills rapidly and delivering great results in a fast-paced environment? If so, we may have just the job you’re looking for!

We have 2 permanent positions available.

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. You will be working in a team that is key to delivering this element of the strategy using highly developed skills in the use of data and analytics.

Our department covers all things ‘data’. This includes:

• Capture of data – the ‘build’ of the data structures within electronic operational clinical and administrative systems; how the human interactions with these systems support the capture of good quality data
• transfer of data between systems.
• Storage and data from multiple systems – building and maintaining data within our data warehouse to enable efficient access of ‘real‑time’ and ‘snapshot’ data.
• Data management – data quality, data integration and documentation analytics – visualisation and dashboards; supporting operational and mandatory reporting, machine learning

Junior Data Engineer Responsibilities

• Align with and activelyparticipatein delivery management
• With direction & support from Data Engineers / Lead Data Engineers, liaise with key stakeholders within Digital and Data Services, otherdepartmentsand external suppliers to ensure the mostappropriate solutionsare implemented for meeting the needs of the business.
• Technical development of data management & engineering processes, conduct ongoing maintenance andoptimisationfor the Microsoft Fabric data platform.
• Align with and activelyparticipatein delivery management

Candidates will be required to attend a face to face test. Candidates who pass the test will be eligible to be considered for interview.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state‑of‑the‑art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Additional Team Member Responsibilities

• Maintain awarenessofadvancesin technologies for your area of work, keepingknowledge and skillsup to date with rapid changes in this area.
• Awareness &adherencetobest practiceregardingdata engineering principles, data storage,standardsand database design to colleagues across theorganisation.
• Role includesparticipation inimproving data quality and data integrity throughout the Trust through involvement in data migration/warehousing projects.
• Disseminate knowledge and skills torelevantmembers of the team and develop oridentifypresentations and appropriate training packages to promote a culture of continuous learning.

This advert closes on Sunday 30 Nov 2025