Lead Data Engineer

Job summary

We're looking for an experienced data engineer with an enthusiasm for leading teams in finding impactful and creative solutions to data engineering questions.

We're looking for a good communicator, who can help clients understand complex processes, IG issues and limitations of the data. Managing clients from scope through to delivery of projects.

We're a dynamic unit, launched in October 2020, and you'll bring new ideas, passion and best practice to everything we do. It's a varied role which will give you a wide range of experience across many aspects of business and project management.

Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit recognises the value serving personnel, reservists, veterans, and military families bring to our business and would encourage people from the armed forces community to apply for our vacancies.

Main duties of the job

You will work with your team to develop testable, reusable code in SQL and Python (prior knowledge desirable) to a high-quality standard. You will also lead on documenting all processes and implementations, providing assurance, auditing, ongoing learning, and improvement.

You will be diagnosing data quality issues across numerous large and complex healthcare data sources, as well as taking the lead designing and implementing methodologies to extract, transform, clean and wrangle data. As the most senior data engineer on the team, you will assist in team and staff development; directly managing data engineers in the team, undertaking their appraisals and development. You will also matrix manage others as required to successfully deliver on projects.

The lead data engineer acts as an expert on all data engineering-related projects and queries, leading on related areas on our projects across the unit. They oversee the data function in the Health Economics Unit, formulating and implementing long term plans to develop and improve our service offer.

They directly manage the data team, overseeing their development as data engineers, as well as supporting the rest of the team under a matrix model.

About us

The NHS is the biggest employer in Europe. It's a world-renowned institution and an exciting place to work, full of challenges and opportunities.

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is one of the biggest and best-performing commissioning support units in the country, with among the highest levels of staff and customer satisfaction. We work together as a team of over 1,600 expert staff based acrossthe Midlands and North West to make a difference - for our customers, patients and communities.

Offering a full range of professional services to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), hospital trusts, local authorities, integrated care systems (ICSs) and other public bodies\ across the country, our NHS values underpin everything we do.

The HEU has been created to deliver impactful insights that power the future development of health and care delivery. Our experts support health system and industry leaders to make the best possible decisions and design the highest quality, most efficient and innovative services to improve the health of communities across the country.

The HEU is a specialist team hosted by the NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU), one of five CSUs across the UK responsible for providing a range of services and support to clients including clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), hospital trusts, local authorities, integrated care systems (ICSs) and other public bodies.