St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Principal Information Analyst - Tableau Lead

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Job summary

The Information department at St George's is looking to appoint an experienced information professional to take a lead role managing the trust's enterprise wide reporting platform, Tableau.

You will have expertise in Tableau and lead a small team to manage and administer, while advising, guiding and promoting best practice to developers and users across the trust.

Main duties of the job

  1. Lead a small team of Tableau Administrator and Developers to manage multitier Trust BI environment - Tableau
  2. Lead for the Trust in one or more specialist analytical techniques or areas (e.g. forecasting, simulation, statistics, optimisation, experimental design).
  3. Establish standards and best practices for content in Trust BI environment
  4. Support the Business Intelligence/Analytics data analysts with the understanding of business and data requirements, and iteratively designs visualisations for initial concepts and prototypes that can be presented to customers for feedback
  5. Provide proactive support to Trust senior management and clinical teams, by providing them with evidence and advice to support clinical and operational duties.
  6. Support the development of analytical capability in the Trust
  7. Perform detailed data analysis (i.e. determine the structure, content, and quality of the data through examination of source systems and data samples)
  1. Ensure Business Continuity by providing appropriate cross-cover for colleagues, both vertically and horizontally using the matrix style of team-working as required.
  1. Work with colleagues in wider Information team to ensure Trust's information needs are supported in a timely and accurate manner.
  2. Act as a Trust's information representative at key meetings and discussions, both internal and external.

About us

We work in an inclusive, collaborative, proactive and dynamic environment where the team support each other in meeting the information needs of the trust.

Details

Date posted

08 June 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£58,698 to £65,095 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

2 years

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

200-5328317-RB-Z

Job locations

St George's Hospital

Blackshaw Road

Tooting

SW17 0QT


Job description

Job responsibilities

  1. Architect a stable Tableau solution guaranteed for high operational availability
  2. Work closely with technical architects, data and software engineers to ensure optimal application and database/warehouse design to support reporting requirements.
  3. Ensure change management process is in place for software, hardware upgrades, and security patches
  4. Monitor server activity/usage statistics to identify possible performance issues/enhancements. Performance tuning/server management of tableau server environment (clustering, load balancing).
  5. Apply your information knowledge and expertise to proactively support customers information requirements. Including, but not limited to, information and advice on benchmarking, performance metrics, mortality statistics, scenario modelling, demand predictions and capacity assessments.
  6. Work across teams to define the business questions that need to be answered. Define appropriate analytics models needed, in addition to identifying and readying relevant data sources for analysis.

Job description

Job responsibilities

  1. Architect a stable Tableau solution guaranteed for high operational availability
  2. Work closely with technical architects, data and software engineers to ensure optimal application and database/warehouse design to support reporting requirements.
  3. Ensure change management process is in place for software, hardware upgrades, and security patches
  4. Monitor server activity/usage statistics to identify possible performance issues/enhancements. Performance tuning/server management of tableau server environment (clustering, load balancing).
  5. Apply your information knowledge and expertise to proactively support customers information requirements. Including, but not limited to, information and advice on benchmarking, performance metrics, mortality statistics, scenario modelling, demand predictions and capacity assessments.
  6. Work across teams to define the business questions that need to be answered. Define appropriate analytics models needed, in addition to identifying and readying relevant data sources for analysis.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree level education in a numerate subject plus at least five years post degree experience in informatics, analysis and reporting

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

  • 2 years' experience of Tableau system administration
  • Over 4 years' experience in developing dashboards using Tableau desktop, creating data sources using Tableau desktop and prep, or using similar BI tool
  • 5 years data handling experience, of which at least 2 years should have been within a Tableau role.
  • Advanced knowledge of SQL Server 2008 R2 and at least 5 years' experience in using it
  • Staff Management

Desirable

  • Experience in using other business intelligence tools like Qlickview, SSRS, Power BI and Business Objects.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree level education in a numerate subject plus at least five years post degree experience in informatics, analysis and reporting

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

  • 2 years' experience of Tableau system administration
  • Over 4 years' experience in developing dashboards using Tableau desktop, creating data sources using Tableau desktop and prep, or using similar BI tool
  • 5 years data handling experience, of which at least 2 years should have been within a Tableau role.
  • Advanced knowledge of SQL Server 2008 R2 and at least 5 years' experience in using it
  • Staff Management

Desirable

  • Experience in using other business intelligence tools like Qlickview, SSRS, Power BI and Business Objects.

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St George's Hospital

Blackshaw Road

Tooting

SW17 0QT


Employer's website

https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St George's Hospital

Blackshaw Road

Tooting

SW17 0QT


Employer's website

https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Deputy Head of Information

Rob Simpson

rob.simpson@stgeorges.nhs.uk

07528887956

Details

Date posted

08 June 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£58,698 to £65,095 a year per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

2 years

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

200-5328317-RB-Z

Job locations

St George's Hospital

Blackshaw Road

Tooting

SW17 0QT


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