Principal Data Engineer, Data Platform & Caboodle Lead, Manchester

Job overview

Data Science and clinical intelligence are revolutionising healthcare, offering opportunities for continuous clinical improvement as well as more personalised care. In this senior role, you will lead on the delivery and continued improvement of MFT’s data management platform and services.

As we seek to improve clinical quality through digital solutions, we’ll look to your expertise in designing and developing information solutions, with a particular focus on expansion of our Trust data warehouse (Epic Caboodle). You will also lead on the specification and development of data flows, models, automation, and reports, ensuring we deliver a first‑class service to the Trust.

Skills required

Along with technical and analytical skills, extensive experience of developing and pipelining within Epic Caboodle is essential.

The assessment process for this role includes Sphinx testing of critical thinking, logical reasoning, and problem‑solving abilities.

Main duties of the job

This is a senior developer role, leading in the development, maintenance, and continued improvement of the Trust data management platforms and services used by Information Management and the wider organisation. You will lead on the specification and development of datasets, data flows, models, processes, and dashboards across multiple areas and clinical services to enable Information Management to deliver a first‑class, comprehensive and proactive service to the Trust.

You will use your expertise to deliver analytics, reporting and insights which underpin effective decision making. To be the Trust specialist on designing and developing information solutions using the latest technologies available including, data warehousing, data lakes, web‑based visualisation tools, R and Python, cloud‑based technologies, and statistical analysis.

The post holder will act as a project manager for developments, ensuring effective communication, customer engagement, and delivering against predetermined outcomes. The ability to motivate others and drive ongoing delivery against objectives and other competing priorities will be essential, as will the ability to deal at pace with changing requirements or circumstances and provide alternate recommendations to mitigate delivery or service improvement challenges.

Working for our organisation

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is the largest provider of specialist services. MFT offers a dynamic, inclusive environment where leadership, ideas and expertise are valued.

Person specification Qualifications

• Masters’ degree or equivalent qualification and / or relevant experience
• Microsoft Data Platform Certifications

Knowledge & Experience

• Substantial NHS experience
• Implementation of data warehouse and data lake solutions
• Experience of working with and manipulating large relational datasets
• Delivery of dashboarding and advanced visualisations
• Advanced SQL
• Expression/query languages
• Experience of developing in R/Python
• CI/CD development practices, agile methodology, and DevOps
• Knowledge of Acute, Community, and Mental Health Trust NHS data sets, standards, and returns
• Cloud data management – ingestion, transformation, orchestration, compute, and modelling
• Understanding of Data science methodology and technologies
• Experience of visualisation platform administration, training, promotion, and maintenance

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any unlawful discrimination across our workforce. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we support applicants with special requirements.

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