Head of Data Engineering

Job summary

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust have an ambitious strategy and recognise that access to good quality data is pivotal to our vision for delivering excellent care at the heart of the community. This is key role to head up our Data Engineering team. For full details and application via Hays Recruitment, please see the following link: https://webmicrosites.hays.co.uk/web/sussex-community-nhs-trust NB - Please do not apply via NHS Jobs.

Main duties of the job

This strategically crucial position will play a leading role in providing expert leadership, advice and guidance to advance the digital agenda by building data awareness and use, whilst also building the data engineering capability across the Trust, providing both technical expertise and strategic direction. Your primary overall focus will be to lead and enable the data engineering team to deliver robust, effective data products and services for the organisation, ensuring best practice.

See Hayes recruitment link above for further details.

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.

We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.

Why work for us?

  • Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
  • Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
  • Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
  • Excellent training and development opportunities
  • Research opportunities
  • Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
  • Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
  • Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
  • Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
  • Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
  • Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

Please use the link provided above in order to submit your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications and/or professional registration

Essential
  • Experience equivalent to a Masters level qualification in Computing / IT related subject.
  • Qualifications or equivalent experience in Oracle, SQL Server, VB.net or other relevant systems.
  • Extensive experience in a senior information management role
Desirable
  • Strong in-depth knowledge / extensive experience of using and developing in: ?SQL and TSQL advanced skills ?SQL Server 2008 and laterSQL Server Integration Services advanced skills with ETL, script tasks Microsoft Visual Basic/C#

Experience

Essential
  • Extensive experience in managing and maintaining a data warehouse within a large organisation

Experience

Essential
  • Extensive experience of developing a data warehouse to optimise performance

Skills and knowledge

Essential
  • Highly organised and logical thinker

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Brighton General Hospital

Elm Grove

Brighton

BN2 3EW


Employer's website

https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/work-with-us/

Company
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Brighton, United Kingdom BN2 3EW
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£70417.00 - £81138.00 a year
Posted
Company
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Brighton, United Kingdom BN2 3EW
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£70417.00 - £81138.00 a year
Posted