Principal Data Engineer (Full Stack)

Job summary

Are you a customer-focused, self-motivated and experienced Principal Data Engineer (Full Stack). Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a real difference in an influential role?

The Principal Data Engineer - Full Stack is a key role in ensuring that these organisations can fulfil their purpose in planning and delivering the best services for patients. Working within a team of data experts, the Full Stack Principal Data Engineer will lead the provisioning of data platforms and tooling underpinning numerous corporate and customer facing services alongside associated reporting.

Main duties of the job

This role will be responsible for:

Leading the data development processes at all stages from conceptualisation to designing, developing building and testing data pipelines for production using agile methodologies.

Designing and developing data feeds to integrate products and services via APIs or similar.

Developing pipelines in code and following standard modern code development practices such as CI/CD using python and spark.

Integrating pipelines with other aspect of our data processing environment including data catalogues, data lineage, and logging and monitoring.

Developing aggregate data views for use by Internal and external teams.

Developing data transformation routines from both complex technical specifications and natural language agreements.

Developing logical data models and schema to support consistent analysis across the NHS and social care.

Implementing reports and dashboards within platforms (where supported), collaborating closely alongside other specialists if complex modelling and machine learning is required.

About us

At NECS we are very proud to be part of the NHS England family. We are one of the very few truly customer-owned entities within the NHS. We have grown from our roots in the North East to be an NHS business with customers the length and breadth of the UK and further abroad. Our customer base has diversified significantly over this period, and we are now very pleased to be serving NHS providers as well as commissioners, NHSE regions, Local Authorities, General Practices and national NHSE Directorates.

NECS combines specialist skills and expertise with scale and resilience to achieve required results. We combine core NHS values with a sharp focus on customer care and a relentless pursuit of continuous improvement. We very much see ourselves as a key partner in the future success of the healthcare system and we take our share of the responsibility for shaping effective delivery.

Our people are the heart of our organisation. We strive to ensure they feel trusted, valued and empowered. Were passionate about nurturing and developing people. When you join us, we want you to grow, and we offer many opportunities for you to do that as well as an excellent benefits package including generous holidays and pension plus free car parking and access to NHS discounts.