Principal Data Engineer

East Lancashire Hospitals Nhs Trust — United Kingdom · Posted ~4 hours ago

Lead Full-time

Skills

data engineering data warehousing data integration business intelligence BI

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A principal data engineering role focused on designing and supporting enterprise data platforms, integration solutions, and business intelligence systems across cloud and on-premise environments.

Highlights

Leadership role in modern data engineering with responsibility for strategic BI solutions and complex technical projects.

Description

The post holder will be an integral member of a team of specialists within Business Intelligence (BI) and the wider Digital department and play a lead role in implementing the department's BI Strategy. The role is a highly technical post that will help lead the development and design of Data Warehouse, Data Integration and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions to support the One Lancashire and South Cumbria (LSC) Performance and Information agenda. The post holder will have an excellent understanding of the main areas of the unit's work, namely Data Warehousing, Integration, Reporting and Business Intelligence and how these fit in with the operations and business of the organisation. The post holder will possess experience in the design, development and support of modern data engineering solutions across both on-premises and cloud-based environments. The role will involve the detailed analysis and understanding of complex technical and business requirements across multiple services within and external to the organisation to deliver high quality BI solutions and products and facilitate their delivery as part of the new Electronic Health Record implementation. The post holder will have an excellent understanding of the role of Digital in the NHS workplace. Provide leadership and expertise in the area of BI development throughout a project lifecycle and beyond.Coordinate and solicit input from business and application stakeholders to develop informatics solutions. Complete detailed specifications and design documents in accordance with project standards and timelines.Take a leading role in the development, implementation and maintenance of Data Warehousing and Reporting solutions using modern data engineering solutions. Assist in developing, implementing and maintaining solutions using the Intersystems Health Share Health Connect integration engine middleware or other identified solutions. Establish BI requirements for the development of new and existing administrative, clinical and reporting systems and solutions.Effectively communicate requirements and technical limitations with clients and colleagues.Ensure systems designed, developed and managed by the team meet information security and privacy requirements.Ensure developments are tested to a high standard before release for business testing.Provide third-line support for systems for which the department is responsible. Advise and promote the use of systems and work with users to ensure objectives are achieved.Keep up to date with new requirements, technologies and developments within NHS informatics. The Business Intelligence Team are part of the Digital Division. One LSC stands for ‘One Lancashire and South Cumbria’ and reflects the ambition to have one team serving Lancashire and South Cumbria in a joined-up way. One LSC brings together the Digital, Data and Technology teams from each of the provider Trusts to create one central community of professionals. The aim is to bring services more closely together so that we can deliver the best service possible to each of our partner organisations. At the core of One LSC delivery is eliminating duplication, removing unwarranted variation, realisation of the benefits of sharing common systems and processes and ensuring we deliver value for money for our partners, our system and, ultimately, for the communities we serve. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Matthew Cartwright Job title: Data Engineering Manager Email address: matthew.cartwright1@nhs.net Telephone number: 01253 955219