Head Office
Senior Data Engineer
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.
Could you play a key role in that?
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.
If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.
Apply today… It starts with you.
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Rewards & Benefits
Helping you be and feel your best.
Annual Leave
25 days + Bank Holidays, increasing to 27 days after 5 years and to 30 days after 10 years of service.
Nuffield Health Healthcare Plan
Membership is free for employees and you can add partner and dependants at your own cost.
*eligibility criteria applies.
Financial Wellbeing
A range of employee benefits through a Financial Wellbeing provider – including affordable loans repaid through salary, access to your pay when you need it, simple savings, a government Help to Save scheme and money insights.
Cycle to Work Scheme
Save money, get fit and reduce your carbon footprint by taking advantage of this tax-efficient scheme to get a new bike.
Gym Membership
Free membership to any Nuffield Health gym, plus discounted memberships for family members.
Online GP
Discounted access to secure video and telephone GP consultations and a suite of healthcare management tools, provided by digital healthcare company Doctor Care Anywhere.
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Hints & Tips
Help with your application.
Once you’ve found the right role for you, you can apply online. All you need to do at this stage is submit your CV, a covering email, and a few personal details.
Our recruitment team screens all of the applications we receive. So, if they see that you’ve got the right sort of skills and experience needed for the role, your details will be passed on to the relevant hiring manager. Then, if you fit all the criteria at this stage, you’ll be invited to take part in a video, telephone or face-to-face interview.
CV
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Covering email
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Video interview
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Your current studies
If you are currently undertaking any strudies, education or apprenticeships, its worth noting there are some training provider we're not partnered with, and therefore potentially unable to support your continued learning. Ensure you share this at interview and for queries contact psc@nuffieldhealth.com
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