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St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Data Engineer

The closing date is 09 October 2025

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Job summary

Data Engineering Team supports decision-making within the Trust through the provision of a comprehensive information and analysis service by managing and optimizing the flow, storage, and accessibility of data from clinical\non-clinical systems within the Trust. The post holder plays a pivotal role in ensuring that data flows smoothly, remains consistent, and is available for decision-making, insights and analytics.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will contribute to the smooth transition of the onsite data warehouse solutions into a more efficient, scalable and secure cloud infrastructure while supporting the current data platform and infrastructure. The post holder plays a pivotal role in ensuring that data flows smoothly, remains consistent, and is available for decision-making, insights and analytics. The post holder will also be responsible for maintaining the current data warehouse solutions by ensuring operational efficiency, routine maintenance, issue resolution, monitoring and reporting

About us

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the country's principal teaching hospitals and our main site is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. We have over 9,000 dedicated staff serving a population of 1.3 million across south-west London.

We deliver a large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation. We also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people. As well as acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a range of community services to patients.

Details

Date posted

25 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£56,276 to £63,176 a year pa inc HCAS (inner)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

200-NN-7374872-A&C-Z

Job locations

St George’s Hospitals NHS Trust

Blackshaw Road

London

SW17 0QT


Job description

Job responsibilities

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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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.

Person Specification

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

  • oOver 2 years' experience in developing dashboards using Tableau desktop , creating data sources using Tableau desktop.
  • o5 years data handling experience, of which at least 2 years should have been within a Tableau role.
  • oAdvanced knowledge of SQL Server 2008 R2 and at least 4 years' experience in using it
  • o Tableau server administration experience

Desirable

  • oKnowledge of Data Protection Act
  • oExperience in using other business intelligence tools like Qlickview, SSRS, Power BI and Business Objects.

Education & Qualification

Essential

  • oDegree level or equivalent experience (relevant to role)
  • oPostgraduate qualification in relevant area or equivalent experience

Desirable

  • oManagement qualification or equivalent experience

Skills & Ablities

Essential

  • oAdministrative and organisational skills
  • oGood analytical skills for spotting or anticipating weaknesses in processes
  • oAbility to manage own workload and work to tight deadline
Person Specification

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

  • oOver 2 years' experience in developing dashboards using Tableau desktop , creating data sources using Tableau desktop.
  • o5 years data handling experience, of which at least 2 years should have been within a Tableau role.
  • oAdvanced knowledge of SQL Server 2008 R2 and at least 4 years' experience in using it
  • o Tableau server administration experience

Desirable

  • oKnowledge of Data Protection Act
  • oExperience in using other business intelligence tools like Qlickview, SSRS, Power BI and Business Objects.

Education & Qualification

Essential

  • oDegree level or equivalent experience (relevant to role)
  • oPostgraduate qualification in relevant area or equivalent experience

Desirable

  • oManagement qualification or equivalent experience

Skills & Ablities

Essential

  • oAdministrative and organisational skills
  • oGood analytical skills for spotting or anticipating weaknesses in processes
  • oAbility to manage own workload and work to tight deadline

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.

Employer details

Employer name

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St George’s Hospitals NHS Trust

Blackshaw Road

London

SW17 0QT


Employer's website

https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St George’s Hospitals NHS Trust

Blackshaw Road

London

SW17 0QT


Employer's website

https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Data Engineering Manager

Karim El-Sayed

karim.elsayed@stgeorges.nhs.uk

02087253677

Details

Date posted

25 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£56,276 to £63,176 a year pa inc HCAS (inner)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

200-NN-7374872-A&C-Z

Job locations

St George’s Hospitals NHS Trust

Blackshaw Road

London

SW17 0QT


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