Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer - Data Engineering

Barbican & Epsom Hybrid Working (1 office day per week) Permanent Full-Time

Competitive salary available depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health everything we give our patients members and customers starts with our people. Your passion your expertise and your drive to make a difference enable us to deliver exceptional connected healthcare and fitness experiences.

Were looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team responsible for making data available and trusted across the whole of Nuffield Health. This is a role with real ownership: youll own a functional area of our data platform lead delivery initiatives and line manage engineers setting the standards patterns and direction that the wider team follows.

Our Data Engineering team operates a distributed leadership model. Each Senior Data Engineer owns a defined functional area such as ingestion and integration incident management and observability governance security and cost management or CI/CD and Dev Ops and is accountable for the standards and resilience of that area so that nothing depends on a single person. Seniors lead delivery initiatives and line manage engineers with the Lead Data Engineer retaining overall technical direction and the roadmap.

Youll work with industry-leading technologies including Snowflake dbt Azure Data Factory Talend SQL Server New Relic and Terraform.

Could you play a key role in that

As our Senior Data Engineer youll:

• Own a defined functional area of the data platform setting the standards patterns and tooling the team follows within it and acting as the first point of contact for questions in that area.
• Avoid becoming a single point of dependency by documenting your work and helping other engineers develop the knowledge and skills needed to support your area treating knowledge transfer as an ongoing obligation rather than a one-off handover.
• Lead delivery initiatives end to end planning resourcing and delivering against agreed constraints in collaboration with Product Owners Delivery Managers architects and third-party suppliers.
• Line manage engineers including objectives development plans and reviews and line manage external or temporary resource aligned to your initiatives for their duration.
• Design build and operate robust ingestion integration and transformation solutions on Snowflake dbt and Azure in line with Nuffield Healths enterprise architecture and data engineering standards.
• Ensure solutions are operationally ready observable and supportable and contribute to incident and problem management as part of the teams service management approach.
• Coach mid-level engineers to take ownership of epics and smaller initiatives within their squad growing the next generation of leaders in the team.
• Contribute to the teams technical roadmap BAU planning and engineering maturity including documentation code quality branching and testing standards.
• Escalate cross-cutting risks dependencies and unassigned questions to the Lead Data Engineer and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

To succeed as Senior Data Engineer youll bring:

• Substantial hands-on data engineering experience across integration data modelling and data warehousing with excellent SQL skills.
• Experience with ETL/ELT tools (e.g. Talend Azure Data Factory dbt) and database platforms (e.g. MS SQL Server Snowflake Azure SQL Database) including developing integration solutions using APIs files and databases.
• Experience with performance tuning data migration strategies (on premise and cloud) and relational database design particularly in support of business intelligence.
• Experience setting and upholding engineering standards and taking…