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Job Description:

Lead Data Engineer

London or Manchester

Permanent

Full time position

Up to £120k DOE + fantastic benefits

Closing date for applications is Tuesday 5th August, 2025.

We make health happen!

The Lead Data Engineer will help shape the future of data driven innovation in healthcare by building robust data systems that power intelligent decision-making.

Reporting into the Head of Application and Data Architecture for Corporate Functions (covering Finance, People, Risk, Audit and Legal), you will provide technical leadership to a data platform team, with accountability for creating and managing data pipelines, databases, and data tools that ensure data is clean, well-organised, and readily accessible for analysis and strategic decision-making.

The role holder will confidently communicate complex data concepts to senior management and lead data engineers to solve business problems. You’ll be responsible for architecting a data platform, data design specification and hands on coding if/when required.


How you’ll help us make health happen:

As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of our digital transformation, responsible for:

  • Designing and delivering scalable data engineering solutionsthat balance performance, security, and usability.

  • Driving requirements gathering and stakeholder engagementfor complex initiatives, ensuring alignment and clarity across the board.

  • Leading software development efforts, from architecture to deployment, using modern tools and best practices.

  • Modelling and designing enterprise data structuresto support analytics, business intelligence, and operational needs.

  • Implementing a robust data platform, ensuring high availability and performance.

  • Championing continuous integration and release management, streamlining delivery pipelines and ensuring smooth rollouts.

  • Architecting and integrating systemswith a focus on automation, scalability, and resilience.

  • Improving products and services through data-driven insights, identifying opportunities to enhance user experiences and business outcomes.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

  • Extensive experience indata engineering, software development, and systems integrationat a senior level.

  • Accountability for the implantation of full data lifecycle—from design and development to deployment and optimisation is highly desirable.

  • Strong knowledge and experience ofdata pipelines, data modelling, database design, and data warehousing.

  • Proficiency in Snowflake, Power BI and medallion architecture. Ideal candidates will have been accountable for building out a data platform capability on GCP Big Query or Snowflake, implementing a medallion model and creating a secure and reusable consumption layer with demanding security requirements.

  • You will have extensive experience in developing in multiple languages (including Python and Node.JS), integrating complex data sources across different authentication approaches and transforming complex multi-dimensional data sources using tools such as DBT.

  • Exceptional problem-solving skills, with a solutions orientated mindset and a resilient, focused approach.

  • Expertise inrequirements management, stakeholder negotiation, and agile delivery.

  • Familiarity withrelease management, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.

  • A strategic mindset with the ability todocument and drive changefrom “as-is” to “to-be” states.

  • Passion forcontinuous improvementand leveraging data to drive innovation.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

  • 25 days holiday per year.

  • Management bonus scheme

  • Car allowance

  • Access to a range of services to support your physical and mental wellbeing

  • Access to our confidential employee assistance programme

  • Workplace pension

  • Online discounts covering your everyday shopping, entertainment, eating out and more.

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

If you would like more information on the role, require an alternative format, or would like to discuss other opportunities suited to your skills and experience, please contact

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