Junior Data Engineer

NHS
Whitley Bay, England
5 months ago
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Job summary

Do you have a passion for data? Do you have a yearning to turn data into insights, and to enhance the delivery of patient care and safety through rigorous analysis? Are you looking for a role where you will be exploring advances in technologies, learning new skills rapidly and delivering great results in a fast‑paced environment? If so, we may have just the job you're looking for!


We have 2 permanent positions available.


At the heart of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's ambitious Digital Strategy is the provision of high‑quality data to support intelligence‑led decision making. You will be working in a team that is key to delivering this element of the strategy using highly developed skills in the use of data and analytics.


Department focus

Our department covers all things 'data'. This includes:



  • Capture of data - the 'build' of the data structures within electronic operational clinical and administrative systems; how the human interactions with these systems support the capture of good quality data transfer of data between systems.
  • Storage and data from multiple systems - building and maintaining data within our data warehouse to enable efficient access of 'real‑time' and 'snapshot' data.
  • Data management - data quality, data integration and documentation analytics, visualisation and dashboards; supporting operational and mandatory reporting, machine learning.

Main duties of the job

  • Align with and actively participate in delivery management.
  • With direction & support from Data Engineers / Lead Data Engineers, liaise with key stakeholders within Digital and Data Services, other departments and external suppliers to ensure the most appropriate solutions are implemented for meeting the needs of the business.
  • Technical development of data management & engineering processes, conduct ongoing maintenance and optimisation for the Microsoft Fabric data platform.

Candidates will be required to attend a face to face test. Candidates who pass the test will be eligible to be considered for interview.


About us

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.


Details

Date posted: 21 November 2025


Pay scheme: Agenda for change


Band: 5


Salary: £31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum


Contract: Permanent


Working pattern: Full‑time, Flexible working


Reference number: 319-7619391JN


Job locations: Northumbria Manufacturing and Innovation Hub
Avenue Road
Seaton Delaval
NE25 0QJ


Job responsibilities

  • Maintain awareness of advances in technologies for your area of work, keeping knowledge and skills up to date with rapid changes in this area.
  • Awareness & adherence to best practice regarding data engineering principles, data storage, standards and database design to colleagues across the organisation.
  • Role includes participation in improving data quality and data integrity throughout the Trust through involvement in data migration/warehousing projects.
  • Disseminate knowledge and skills to relevant members of the team and develop or identify presentations and appropriate training packages to promote a culture of continuous learning.

Person Specification (Qualifications)

  • Specialist knowledge and expertise in data engineering, equivalent to graduate degree level.
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent in a numerate discipline, preferably mathematics, computing or statistics.
  • Evidence of ongoing personal and professional development.

Person Specification (Desirable)

  • Knowledge & experience working with Microsoft Fabric or Azure Data Management services.
  • Knowledge & experience working in Cloud environment.

Experience and knowledge (Essential)

  • Good knowledge of Microsoft Office.
  • Advanced knowledge of a programming language such as SQL, Python, PySpark, R or similar and able to demonstrate the ability to learn new programming languages as required (Office packages – in particular, Excel).
  • Knowledge of Data Management or ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) processes.
  • Significant specialist knowledge/experience of data warehousing and data modelling concepts.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.


Employer details

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust


Northumbria Manufacturing and Innovation Hub
Avenue Road
Seaton Delaval
NE25 0QJ


Employer's website

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/


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