Senior Data Engineer

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital; Epsom; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Job summary

Nuffield Health Barbican & Epsom location is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own a functional area of the data platform, lead delivery initiatives and line-manage engineers in a distributed leadership model.

You will design, build and operate robust ingestion, transformation and integration solutions on Snowflake, dbt and Azure, ensure observability, and contribute to the technical roadmap while coaching junior engineers.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on data engineering across integration, modelling and warehousing.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with ETL/ELT tools.
• Experience developing integration solutions via APIs, files and databases.
• Experience leading delivery and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own a defined functional area of the data platform and set standards and tooling.
• Lead end-to-end delivery with Product Owners, Delivery Managers and partners.
• Line manage engineers and oversee resource planning.
• Design, build and operate ingestion, integration and transformation on Snowflake, dbt and Azure.
• Ensure solutions are operable, observable and supportable.
• Coach mid-level engineers to grow future leaders.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap and engineering maturity.
• Escalate risks and communicate with stakeholders clearly.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

Data integration

Data modelling

Data warehousing

Leadership

Tools

Talend

Azure Data Factory

dbt

Snowflake

MS SQL Server

Azure SQL Database

Job description

Senior Data Engineer - Data Engineering Barbican & Epsom | Hybrid Working (1 office day per week) | Permanent | Full-Time Competitive salary available, depending on experience 37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health, everything we give our patients, members and customers starts with our people. Your passion, your expertise and your drive to make a difference enable us to deliver exceptional connected healthcare and fitness experiences. We're looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team, responsible for making data available and trusted across the whole of Nuffield Health. This is a role with real ownership: you'll own a functional area of our data platform, lead delivery initiatives and line manage engineers, setting the standards, patterns and direction that the wider team follows. Our Data Engineering team operates a distributed leadership model. Each Senior Data Engineer owns a defined functional area, such as ingestion and integration, incident management and observability, governance, security and cost management, or CI/CD and DevOps, and is accountable for the standards and resilience of that area so that nothing depends on a single person. Seniors lead delivery initiatives and line manage engineers, with the Lead Data Engineer retaining overall technical direction and the roadmap.

You’ll work with industry-leading technologies including Snowflake, dbt, Azure Data Factory, Talend, SQL Server, New Relic and Terraform.

As our Senior Data Engineer, you'll:

• Own a defined functional area of the data platform, setting the standards, patterns and tooling the team follows within it and acting as the first point of contact for questions in that area.
• Avoid becoming a single point of dependency by documenting your work and helping other engineers develop the knowledge and skills needed to support your area, treating knowledge transfer as an ongoing obligation rather than a one-off handover.
• Lead delivery initiatives end to end, planning, resourcing and delivering against agreed constraints in collaboration with Product Owners, Delivery Managers, architects and third-party suppliers.
• Line manage engineers, including objectives, development plans and reviews, and line manage external or temporary resource aligned to your initiatives for their duration.
• Design, build and operate robust ingestion, integration and transformation solutions on Snowflake, dbt and Azure, in line with Nuffield Health's enterprise architecture and data engineering standards.
• Ensure solutions are operationally ready, observable and supportable, and contribute to incident and problem management as part of the team's service management approach.
• Coach mid-level engineers to take ownership of epics and smaller initiatives within their squad, growing the next generation of leaders in the team.
• Contribute to the team's technical roadmap, BAU planning and engineering maturity, including documentation, code quality, branching and testing standards.
• Escalate cross-cutting risks, dependencies and unassigned questions to the Lead Data Engineer, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

To succeed as Senior Data Engineer, you'll bring:

• Substantial hands-on data engineering experience across integration, data modelling and data warehousing, with excellent SQL skills.
• Experience with ETL/ELT tools (e.g. Talend, Azure Data Factory, dbt) and database platforms (e.g. MS SQL Server, Snowflake, Azure SQL Database), including developing integration solutions using APIs, files and databases.
• Experience with performance tuning, data migration strategies (on premise and cloud) and relational database design, particularly in support of business intelligence.
• Experience setting and upholding engineering standards, and taking ownership of quality and outcomes for a technical area.
• Experience leading the delivery of a project or initiative, working with Product Owners, Delivery Managers, architects and third-party suppliers to manage scope, dependencies and risk.
• Line management or mentoring experience, or a clear appetite to develop it with structured support.
• Excellent communication skills, including documenting technical design proposals and translating complex technical concepts for technical and non-technical audiences.

Desirable:

• Observability and incident management tooling, such as New Relic and ServiceNow.
• CI/CD, DevOps and infrastructure as code, such as Terraform and Azure DevOps.
• Data governance and security: data masking, GDPR, access auditing, PII handling, role-based access and cloud cost management.
• Experience in healthcare or another regulated environment.

We will provide:

• A wide variety of interesting and challenging work that involves most of Nuffield Health's systems, working with key stakeholders such as data analysts, data scientists and business intelligence teams.
• Genuine ownership of a functional area and the initiatives you lead, within a community of data engineers where your opinions shape the standards and practices we adopt.
• A structured path into technical leadership and people management: training pathways, shadowing and reverse shadowing, a Seniors peer group, and regular reviews with the Lead Data Engineer.
• Opportunities to learn and develop your career through apprenticeships, self-learning, mentoring and training courses, with progression encouraged both within the team and across Nuffield Health.
• An environment that allows you to perform at your best, working collaboratively with colleagues who are focused on improving the health of our nation and making a real difference to people's everyday lives.
• Helping you feel good. We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.
• At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you.

#CentralSupport Nuffield Health, is the UK's largest healthcare charity. For over 60 years, we've been working to make the UK fitter, healthier, happier and stronger. All for the public benefit. We do this through our family of 31 award-winning hospitals, 113 fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics and over a 100 workplace wellbeing services. As a charity, we reinvest all our income into our services, into pioneering improvements in care, and most importantly into our social impact programmes, which are designed to support people who would not normally be able to afford or access our services. Its all part of our mission to give everyone the care they need and to build a healthier nation.