Data Engineer

Nuffield Health
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
12 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Automation of Tests
Cloud Computing
Cloud Database
Data Governance
Data Masking
Data Migration
Relational Databases
Microsoft SQL Server
SQL Azure
Performance Tuning
DataOps
SQL Databases
Data Streaming
Azure
Snowflake
Operational Systems

Job description

As a Data Engineer, you'll play a vital role in enabling data-driven decision-making across the organisation. You'll help us connect systems, streamline data flows, and make data accessible for analysis and reporting, ultimately supporting better outcomes for our patients, members, and customers.

As a Data Engineer you will be responsible for:

  • Implementing data flows to connect operational systems with analytics and BI platforms
  • Documenting source-to-target mappings to ensure clarity and consistency
  • Re-engineering manual data processes to enable scalability and repeatability
  • Supporting the development of data streaming systems
  • Writing ELT scripts and code to optimise performance
  • Building reusable business intelligence reports
  • Creating accessible, well-structured data sets for analysis
  • You'll be a skilled and enthusiastic Data Engineer with a strong foundation in integration and data modelling.
  • You'll be confident solving data challenges and communicating your ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Experience with Azure Data Factory (ADF)
  • Strong SQL skills and experience with cloud database platforms like Azure SQL Database or Snowflake
  • Proven ability in performance tuning and relational database design for BI solutions
  • Experience working with diverse stakeholders including product owners, architects, and third-party suppliers

Desirable skills:

  • Experience with on-premise platforms like MS SQL Server
  • Knowledge of data migration strategies from on-premise to cloud
  • Ability to document and communicate technical design proposals
  • Experience with DataOps practices including automated testing and pipeline optimisation
  • Understanding of data governance including GDPR, data masking, and securing sensitive datasets

Benefits & conditions

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.

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