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# Senior Data Engineer

- **Company:** Northumbria Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Whitley Bay, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Computer Literacy, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, Powerquery, Microsoft Fabric, Pyspark, Operational Systems
- **Published:** July 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=27a9dba49c1f15a7

## About the Role

Are you a data engineering expert? Are you passionate about the essential role that data plays in a large NHS organisation. If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to make a real impact on healthcare outcomes.

## Description

As a Senior Data Engineer in the Data Platform team you will:
Design, builds, and maintains the data platform , including storage, data movement, and transformation.

Use data modelling and engineering skills to support operational systems, business intelligence, and analytics.

Select the most effective methods to design efficient data engineering processes.

Optimise performance of the data platform.

Contribute to the development and enforcement of departmental standards to ensure consistency, accuracy, reliability, and compliance.

Produce and maintain high-quality documentation .

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

The postholder must have highly advanced computing skills (e.g. one or more of the following: SQL, Python , PySpark , Power Query, DAX) and the ability to adapt computing skills to any new software required.
The Trust uses Microsoft Fabric as it's main data platform.


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