Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust are in need of a Data Engineer to join their team.
Job Title: Data Engineer
Job Type: Full-time
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Salary: 47,810 – 54,710 £ / Year
Location: North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Deadline: 22 December 2025
Main duties of the job
1. Work closely with colleagues and stakeholders to develop new ideas, solutions and strategies for improving patient care and clinical outcomes.
2. Design, develop, and test robust, scalable data pipelines and architectures to support data ingestion, processing, and storage.
3. Conduct testing of solutions, review requirements and specifications, and define test conditions. Identify issues and risks associated with work. Analyse and report test activities and results.
4. Select and implement the appropriate technologies to deliver resilient, scalable and future-proofed data solutions using a highly developed specialist knowledge of analytical techniques and methods including an excellent understanding of NHS information and associated datasets.
5. Collaborate with Data Analysts, and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
6. Develop and implement efficient ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to integrate data from various sources into centralised data repositories
7. Document data architecture, processes, and workflows for reference and knowledge sharing.
8. Utilise programming languages (e.g., C#, Python, SQL) and technologies (e.g., Apache Spark, SSIS, .NET) to manipulate and analyse data.
9. Participate in code reviews, version control (e.g., using Git), and other software development best practices to ensure code quality and maintainability.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-Graduate qualification or demonstrable experience at that level.
- Additional specialist procedural knowledge of systems development to enable design and development across a range of areas.
- Evidence of continued further professional development.
Desirable
- Current Microsoft certification in Data – Azure, Developer, Data Engineer, Data Analyst – field.
Experience
Essential
- A minimum of 3 years SQL Server/Business Intelligence Development experience in a professional (preferably Healthcare) environment.
- Experience of exporting data from various source data systems, transforming data against required business rules and data models, or data storage and analysis requirements, and loading data in various storage platforms.
- Significant experience of managing the complete systems development life cycle.
- Experience of using Git as a version control system to manage code artefacts, track change, and collaborate effectively with team members.
- Significant experience of relational database design as well as schema and query optimisation.
Desirable
Knowledge
Essential
- Experience in data engineering within the healthcare sector, with a focus on NHS data systems.
- Knowledge of data modelling, database design, and data warehousing principles.
- Familiarity with healthcare data standards and compliance regulations.
- Experience of extracting data, manipulating, understanding, transforming, wrangling and cleaning NHS datasets.
- Experience with ICD, OPCS, SNOMED codes and the NHS Data Dictionary.
- Ability to write well-designed, testable, efficient SQL code which follows good coding standards.
- Proven ability to transform data from raw into a usable format for users implementing highly complex rules.
- Self-starter, able to work effectively within a team to tight deadlines.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Present verbal, written and numerical information and issues, explaining complexities, to internal stakeholders.
- Ability to work with large data sets with very complex information. Desirable criteria Maximum score 4
Desirable
- Good knowledge of Python for data engineering purposes.
- Experience working with open source technologies.
Skills and Aptitudes
Essential
- Fluent in SQL-based systems.
- Ability to optimise and troubleshoot complex data pipelines for performance and reliability.
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to support and host discussions within a multidisciplinary team, with potentially difficult dynamics, and be an advocate for the team externally to can manage differing perspectives.
- Excellent analytical, IT Keyboard and numerical skills – confident with statistics and their presentation.
- Excellent verbal and written communication (including presentation) skills.
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources (verbal, written and numerical).
Other requirements
Essential
- Capacity to adapt to evolving technologies, methodologies, and healthcare industry standards.
- Proven ability to manage projects, meet deadlines, and deliver high-quality results within scope and budget constraints.
- Demonstrate the ability to work under pressure. High level of Organisation, self-motivation and flexibility in approach and attitude.
- Values diversity and difference and operates with integrity and openness.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with a demonstrated ability to analyse business needs.
- Strong business engagement and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong problem solving acumen.
- Able to demonstrate a professional approach at all times, particularly when under pressure.
- Good interpersonal skills, able to influence and engender collaboration.
- Well organised and able to work on own initiative.
Desirable
- Enthusiasm for self-development.
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