Lead Data Engineer

The Office of Data & Analytics mission is to deliver insight through innovation in data and analytics services and its key function is to provide reporting and analytics to support patient care, quality, performance, financial flows and service development.

To underpin these objectives, the Data Engineering Teams purpose is to firstly build, develop and assure the Trusts Data Platform and secondly to use modern technologies, tools & techniques to leverage this asset for the organisation.

The Lead Data Engineer will contribute to the development and delivery of Data Warehousing, Reporting and Analytics output. They will enable data (from NHS data sets e.g. relating to acute activity) to be appropriately shared and disseminated within operational reports, published Management Information or Official Statistics., The Lead Data Engineer will work closely with colleagues to develop robust processes for managing and automating regular outputs. The Lead Data Engineer must communicate plans and timescales to enable onward management of key stakeholders and should provide regular updates.

The Lead Data Engineer will feed into development priorities to understand potential efficiencies and savings in automated processes, to deploy and manage resources appropriately as the organisation progresses towards its strategic data solution.

The Lead Data Engineer will develop and implement new technologies to support robust and accurate data management and must ensure documentation (such as data dictionaries and data lineage information) is readily available across a range of stakeholders.

The Lead Data Engineer will grow Mid Yorkshire's data engineering capability and reporting mechanisms whilst ensuring data processes are efficient and reliable. This will include ensuring accuracy of data by implementing a robust quality assurance framework to guarantee decisions and actions are based upon reliable and accurate data.

We provide care and support to over a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our workforce.

We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.

We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently.

We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.

We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.