Lead Data Engineer

Nuffield Health; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health organization in the UK is seeking a Lead Data Engineer for a fixed-term contract. In this high-profile role, you'll oversee multiple workstreams and lead a team of data engineers, helping to deliver integration solutions across the organization. Your experience with ETL/ELT tools, SQL, and cloud platforms will be essential, along with your ability to coach and manage engineers. This position offers exciting challenges and opportunities for professional development within a dynamic team.

Benefits

Career progression opportunities

Collaborative work environment

Training and mentoring programs

Wide variety of interesting projects

Qualifications

• Experience overseeing data engineering teams and projects.
• Proven ability to develop and implement data integration solutions.
• Excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Oversee data engineers and multiple workstreams.
• Collaborate on data engineering strategy and standards.
• Coach engineers on best practices and code deployment.

Skills

Data integration

Data modelling

ETL/ELT tools

SQL

Python

Cloud data platforms

Coaching and mentoring

Tools

Azure Data Factory

dbt

Snowflake

Azure SQL Database

MS SQL Server

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Lead Data Engineer for a fixed‑term contract role that will provide additional leadership capacity and support our in‑house Lead Data Engineer with overseeing multiple workstreams and data engineers delivering these workstreams. The team is responsible for integrating, transforming and making data available across the whole of the organisation, building, and maintaining data pipelines for our on‑prem databases and cloud data warehouse, making this a high‑profile and rewarding opportunity. You'll be a lead engineer with many years of integration and data modelling/data warehouse experience, as well as being great at managing and coaching your engineers. You'll be confident in solving data problems and be able to clearly communicate your ideas to technical and non‑technical stakeholders and bring about change. You'll also be working with some of the industry‑leading data technologies and will be given the opportunity to develop your expertise in these as well as your broader career.

Responsibilities

• Oversee multiple workstreams and data engineers working to deliver these workstreams.
• Work alongside our Lead Data Engineer to deliver our data engineering strategy covering standards, policies, tools, and techniques, to drive the team and practice forward.
• Work with DevOps and QA communities to enable transformation to an automated, continuous deployment model.
• Coach engineers in building the best solutions and automating testing and deployment of their code.
• Work closely with Architects to define best‑in‑class data integration, management, and reporting solutions; ensuring technical complexity is managed, documented, and shared, to make sure solutions are easily maintained and reusable.
• Design and implement appropriate observability (monitoring and alerting) across our Data platforms.
• Experience working with ETL/ELT tools, including Azure Data Factory and dbt, developing a wide variety of integration solutions incorporating APIs, files, databases, etc.
• Experience with database platforms, including Snowflake, Azure SQL Database and MS SQL Server, along with excellent SQL skills.
• Experience with performance tuning, data migration strategies both on‑prem and cloud, and relational database design, particularly in the development of business intelligence solutions.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of stakeholders including product owners, delivery managers, architects, and third‑party suppliers.
• Experience with data masking policies, GDPR, auditing access and securing sensitive data sets.
• Experience of communicating and documenting technical design proposals.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, and guiding Data Engineers.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Qualifications and Experience

• Experience with transforming data using Python along with an understanding of data science and the underlying data engineering needed to make it work.
• Experience with DataOps, automating the promotion and release of data engineering artefacts, automating testing and pipeline optimisation.
• Experience providing support, sometimes on‑call, for your data systems.

At Nuffield Health, everything we give our patients, members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your warmth, your drive to make a difference. Whether it's driving connecting health, helping the nation, transforming experiences, or building the career you want - we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.

Benefits

• A wide variety of interesting and challenging work that involves most of Nuffield Health's systems, as well as working with a variety of key stakeholders such as data analysts, data scientists and business intelligence teams.
• An environment where you will be given responsibility to develop your ideas and solutions. You will be working within a community of technologists, where your opinions are valued and contribute to the engineering standards and practices adopted.
• Opportunities to learn and develop your career through apprenticeships, self‑learning, mentoring and/or training courses. Career progression is encouraged and opportunities to move both within the team and wider are possible.
• An environment that allows you to perform at your best, working collaboratively with like‑minded colleagues who are focussed on improving the health of our nation and making a real difference to peoples' everyday lives.

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