Job summary
To achieve NICE's strategic transformation ambitions and to continue to support our essential live services, it is crucial that NICE's data assets are managed appropriately and that the processes for developing, maintaining, and publishing guidance can rely on consistent, accurate well-structured data.
This role will be at the heart of ensuring NICE takes an enterprise view of its data assets, that NICE can clearly understand, manage, and use these data assets effectively in line with its strategic ambitions. The role will support Digital, Information and Technology directorate (DIT) and the Data Management and Information Architecture team in building data management capabilities at NICE, focusing on data integration for master data management, as well as for analytics, business intelligence and performance reporting. This is a great opportunity for somebody with excellent data management skills to help the organisation manage their data in a multi cloud environment and support the cloud migration.
Contract type: Permanent
Do you want to do meaningful work that makes a genuine difference to society? Our main purpose here at The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is to improve health and wellbeing by putting science and evidence at the heart of health and care decision making. As an organisation we all collaborate to achieve this same goal through empowering our workforce to do great things!
Main duties of the job
As a Data Integration Engineer, you will:
- Support the recently implemented Master Data Management solution within NICE and drive the wider implementation of data integration capabilities to support the data management solutions of the organization.
- Provide expertise regarding the procurement, implementation and configuration of off-the-shelf data integration tools and other data integration solutions, including those built for NICE by a third party. Current data integration solutions exist within both Microsoft Azure and AWS cloud environments as well as some on prem.
- Bring multiple data sources together in a conformed model, as well as analyse data from a complex single source.
- Work closely with data architects, data stewards and software engineers to implement robust data integration between NICE applications where appropriate.
- Work closely with software engineers' technical experts to support the foundations for a Data Science environment. The environment is to provision the expanding data science activity at NICE. The role holder will work as part of the multidisciplinary team to make sure the services are configured correctly for the data science practices. This includes R Services, the suite of Python services and Machine Learning Services.
- Keep abreast of best practice in industry and across government.
Remain updated in the rapidly changing field of data integration, data quality, data migration and master data management.
About us
You will be joining a small but growing team of data architects and information architects responsible for NICE data and information architecture and providing master data management service and support for business intelligence and data science.
Here at NICE we are passionate and proud of the work we do and the impact we make.
We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment.
Benefits:
- We offer a range of benefits including the NHS pension scheme and staff discounts
- We provide a thorough induction programme
- Personal development is supported through extensive training and development opportunities
- We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balance
- We value equality and diversity and welcome applicants from all sections of the community
- We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria in line with the NHS Guaranteed Interview Scheme
If you feel this is the type of environment, you will enjoy working in then please feel free to contact us for more information or apply now.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrateall essential criteriathrough the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrateall essential criteriathrough the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Microsoft certification, especially knowledge of Dynamics cloud platform, Office 365 integration, Power apps connectors, Dataverse
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience in implementing data integration solutions including design, build and test data products based on feeds from multiple systems, that are complex and large scale, using a range of different storage technologies, access methods or both. You can create repeatable and reusable products.
- Demonstrable experience in engineering for scale and reliability, both using on-prem and cloud platforms and associated data integration tooling (e.g. SSIS, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory)
Desirable
- Experience working with master data management tools like Multiview, Profisee, Semarchy.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of software coding approaches and languages such as SQL, Transact-SQL, C# for implementing primarily SSIS solutions. Knowledge of ETL tools like SSIS, Scribe, Matillion, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue.
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of different database technologies including relational, document and graph databases. Knowledge of SQL, T-SQL. Knowledge of data modelling techniques and ability to compare and align different data models. Ability to recognise opportunities for the reuse and alignment of data models.
Desirable
- Knowledge of Python would be an advantage.
skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate complex information to both technical and non-technical people. Ability to effectively manage stakeholder expectations. Ability to support or host difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Microsoft certification, especially knowledge of Dynamics cloud platform, Office 365 integration, Power apps connectors, Dataverse
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience in implementing data integration solutions including design, build and test data products based on feeds from multiple systems, that are complex and large scale, using a range of different storage technologies, access methods or both. You can create repeatable and reusable products.
- Demonstrable experience in engineering for scale and reliability, both using on-prem and cloud platforms and associated data integration tooling (e.g. SSIS, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory)
Desirable
- Experience working with master data management tools like Multiview, Profisee, Semarchy.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of software coding approaches and languages such as SQL, Transact-SQL, C# for implementing primarily SSIS solutions. Knowledge of ETL tools like SSIS, Scribe, Matillion, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue.
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of different database technologies including relational, document and graph databases. Knowledge of SQL, T-SQL. Knowledge of data modelling techniques and ability to compare and align different data models. Ability to recognise opportunities for the reuse and alignment of data models.
Desirable
- Knowledge of Python would be an advantage.
skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate complex information to both technical and non-technical people. Ability to effectively manage stakeholder expectations. Ability to support or host difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.
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.
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.
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
NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Address
Manchester
Level 1a City Tower, Piccadilly Plaza
Manchester
M1 4BT
Employer's website
https://www.nice.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
