Senior Data Engineer

NHS; Whitley Bay; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a Data Engineer to design and maintain their data platform. The successful candidate will work on-site at least three days a week and must have advanced skills in SQL and Python. Candidates should possess a degree in a numerate discipline and have significant experience in data warehousing. This is a full-time, permanent position offering competitive salary between £47,810 and £54,710 per year.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in a numerate discipline, preferably mathematics, computing or statistics.
• Advanced knowledge of programming languages such as SQL, Python, R or similar.
• Significant specialist knowledge/experience in data warehousing.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the data platform, including storage, data movement, and transformation.
• Use data modeling and engineering skills to support operational systems, business intelligence, and analytics.
• Optimize performance of the data platform.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data engineering

Data warehousing

Education

Degree in numerate discipline

Postgraduate level expertise in data engineering

Tools

Power Query

DAX

PySpark

Job description

Job Summary

Are you a data engineering expert? Are you passionate about the essential role that data plays in a large NHS organisation? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to make a real impact on healthcare outcomes.

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.

The successful candidate would be expected to work on site at least three days per week.

This vacancy may close prior to the closing date if a large volume of applications is received.

Main Duties

• Design, builds, and maintains the data platform, including storage, data movement, and transformation.
• Use data modelling and engineering skills to support operational systems, business intelligence, and analytics.
• Select the most effective methods to design efficient data engineering processes.
• Optimise performance of the data platform.
• Contribute to the development and enforcement of departmental standards to ensure consistency, accuracy, reliability, and compliance.
• Produce and maintain high‑quality documentation.

About Us

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.

Details

Date posted: 06 November 2025

Pay Scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working Pattern

Full‑time, Flexible working

Reference Number

319-7564558JN

Job Locations

Northumbria Manufacturing and Innovation Hub

Avenue Road

Seaton Delaval

NE25 0QJ

Job Description – Responsibilities

The postholder must have highly advanced computing skills (e.g. SQL, Python, PySpark, Power Query, DAX) and the ability to adapt computing skills to any new software required. The Trust uses Microsoft Fabric as its main data platform.

Person Specification – Qualifications (Essential)

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in a numerate discipline, preferably mathematics, computing or statistics.
• Specialist knowledge and expertise in data engineering, equivalent to postgraduate degree level.

Person Specification – Qualifications (Desirable)

• Member of a professional body.

Education / Experience (Essential)

• Advanced knowledge of a programming language such as SQL, Python, R or similar.
• Significant specialist knowledge/experience of data warehousing.

Education / Experience (Desirable)

• Knowledge of clinical terminology.
• Knowledge of the NHS data model and standards.
• Significant experience of analysing NHS data.
• Experience of supervising and developing staff.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here: Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Employer Details

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Northumbria Manufacturing and Innovation Hub

Avenue Road

Seaton Delaval

NE25 0QJ

Website: https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/