Data Engineer
| Posting date: | 25 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £56,276.00 to £63,176.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £56276.00 - £63176.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 October 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW17 0QT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9200-25-1082 |
Summary
As a member of the Trusts Data Engineering team, this role serves as a strategic and architectural expert in the development and maintenance of the data warehouse and its associated systems and solutions. Deliver the trusts future data landscape by designing scalable and reliable data platforms on cloud infrastructure, ensuring data integrity and supporting continuous delivery of data solutions. Design, development, and implement scalable and efficient data pipelines and workflows using Azure Data Factory and other ETL tools. Build and manage data lakes, warehouse and databases on Azure including Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake and Azure SQL Database and develop our future data processing solutions in Microsoft Fabric. Take full ownership of assigned responsibilities across advisory, implementation, and review phases, engaging effectively with both technical teams and senior leadership. Act as an internal technical leader and innovator, contributing to the development of advanced and tailored technical solutions for the trust while championing engineering excellence. Collaborate with wider IDT team including analysts, back office and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into effective solutions. Provide technical support for the existing database applications. Design, develop, and implement new data feeds, ETL processes, and data marts to support evolving analytical and reporting needs. Proactively review new and emerging technologies and their potential benefit to the Trust, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. Develop solutions and provide management for the implementation of NHS Information Standards, mapping data standards and implementation of common data models. Maintain robust data modelling practices, collaborate with other team members for best practices. Ensure compliance with NHS Information Standard Notices (ISNs) and data standards. Develop algorithms to transform data into usable models and ensure data quality and integrity Maintain and support the current data warehousing infrastructure to support the reporting needs of the Trust by managing various extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) processes. Provide advanced technical knowledge and skills to support the information needs of the Trust. Ensure accuracy and timeliness of data and adhere to security and Information Governance policies and procedures. Act as a team leader and provide deputising support to the Data Engineering Manager as required. To diagnose complex problems, situations and/or information and make informed judgements to formulate solutions and recommend/decide on best course of action. Ensure all technical processes, current and future are documented. Where necessary, advise and guide colleagues on technical and best practice matters.