NHS North Of England Commissioning Support Unit

Principal Data Engineer

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Job summary

Are you a customer-focused, self-motivated and experienced RPA Developer. Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a real difference in an influential role?

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with experience in development of RPA solutions (preferably using the UiPath suite of applications) to join the Data and Digital team.

As an RPA Developer, you will be part of a team of RPA specialists, tasked with exploring the exciting world of automation and developing solutions which ultimately deliver significant benefit to a wide array of clients across the health sector, including CCGs and GPs, as well as NECS staff based across England.

Main duties of the job

You will design and develop robots based on the requirements of the customer to automate their otherwise manual process.

You will use agile development methodologies to effectively manage a diverse and fast-pace workload.

You will collaborate and work with various stakeholders across NHS organisations using RPA to drive efficiencies to free-up invaluable resources.

We offer hybrid working in this role meaning that the successful candidate can work from a mixture of locations including home, NECS offices and customer locations.

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. We’re 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.

Date posted

05 August 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£40,057 to £45,839 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

I9869-BIS250-7258

Job locations

Wira House

WIRA Business Park, West Park Ring Road

Leeds

LS16 6EB

Nhs North Of England

Durham University Science Park

Durham

DH1 3YG

Unit 20

Riverside House

Middlesbrough

TS5 4BE

Nhs South Yorkshire I C B

722 Prince Of Wales Road

Sheffield

S9 4EU

Job description

Job responsibilities

The role will lead and manage a team of data specialists, planning their workload and overseeing delivery. Working within a team of data experts, lead the provisioning of data platforms and tooling underpinning numerous corporate and customer facing services. You will plan the design, development, testing and operation of data products in an agile manner with an appropriate technology architecture.

A key component of the role is leading the improvement of processes to ensure they remain safe, efficient and effective.

As technology evolves you will promote and develop the culture of learning inspiring your team to embrace opportunities to enhance the service offering by researching, piloting and establishing use cases to embrace with leading edge solutions

Build and maintain data pipelines and ensure our products are robust, performant, safe and cost effective.

Undertake the extraction, transformation, loading, cleansing and testing of data using a variety of inhouse and enterprise solutions.

Ensure data processes are automated through a range of technologies including Robotics Process Automation, extensive scripting and broader integration approaches.

Produce and present initial solution 'end to end' prototypes as working models for user evaluation and in preparation for full scale development and deployment.

Select possible logical solution options using appropriate components and technologies suitable to form the architecture and data component design and present technical options and recommendations.

Provide support to client/customer data solutions acting as a lead specialist consultant working to NECS processes and procedures.

Using technical expertise and experience, communicate highly complex technical issues, advising accordingly working closely with colleagues, customers and senior staff on a daily basis.

Frequent communication with data and analytics colleagues across the organisation and customer base ensuring deadlines are met and operational services are delivered.

Engagement with customers and partners to enhance the service considering evolving user requirements and other factors influencing the service.

Interpret, review, analyse, test and optimise data routines, recognising potential defects in the design or deployment and ensuring efficiency is maintained for processing.

Constantly analyse and support complex data pipelines ensuring processes are delivering expected results intervening when required to ensure compliance.

Plan and lead on a range of complex department- wide and organisation- wide work programmes and projects, including for example data and digital initiatives ensuring plans are established, monitored and results reported, flexing where necessary to ensure successful delivery of the project.

Manage conflicting work programmes that may impact across other internal departments within NECS.

Develop, structure and schedule plans, negotiating and communicating clearly with other departments.

Oversee and ensure the team provides regular updates for the delivery of technical activities against plan/milestones.