NHS Blood and Transplant
Senior Data Engineer
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Two Vacancies available, 1 Permanent Post & 1 Fixed-Term Post (to end 31 December 2027)
Job Summary
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is a unique organisation that works to save and improve lives every day.
Are you a skilled data engineering professional who thrives on transforming complex data into powerful insights that support vital services? This is an exciting opportunity to join NHS Blood and Transplant's Data Product Centre, where you will play a key role in shaping enterprise-scale data solutions that enable informed decision-making, innovation, and operational excellence across the organisation.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will work with modern cloud technologies and large, complex datasets to develop robust data platforms, pipelines, and analytical solutions. You'll collaborate with a wide range of technical and business stakeholders, helping to ensure that trusted, high-quality data is available to support patient and donor services, research, and continuous improvement throughout NHSBT.
Main duties of the job
A Senior Data Engineer works with data created and stored across NHSBT within the Data Engineering Team, as part of the Data Product Centre.
They play a pivotal role in ensuring that data flows smoothly, remains consistent, and is available for decision-making, insights and analytics through the available platforms. This involves development and expansion of the platform of choice and ensuring operational efficiency, routine maintenance, issues and incident resolution, performance monitoring and reporting.
The Senior Data Engineers are subject matter experts in data engineering, helping to collate, curate and support analytical use of the extensive data generated from the various products and services across the organisation to support:
- Patient and Donor Care: Enabling access to relevant patient/donor information for healthcare professionals.
- Service Management: Improving services and supporting decision-making for a broad spectrum of services including logistics, manufacturing and genomics.
- Data Analysis: Identifying trends, predicting outcomes, and understanding the quality of care being delivered.
About You
Experience and Knowledge
In depth experience of data engineering across the development, testing and deployment stages.
- Experience of developing and maintaining data warehouse solutions using MS SQL toolset.
- Experience in setting up large-scale processing systems or data infrastructure on a cloud platform.
- Experience of linking and transforming numerous large and complex datasets, using ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to optimise analytical performance and data reliability.
- Experience in collection, curation, management and manipulation of NHS datasets.
- Experience of developing and implementing large and complex information management and reporting systems, including provision of data internally or via other third-party stakeholders.
- Experience of monitoring, identifying and escalating data quality issues and designing ETL processes to incorporate data validation techniques.
- Experience managing deployments and transitions from DEV to PROD, supporting live service activation and environment coordination, with hand-on involvement in CI/CD pipelines and Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
- Knowledge of data warehousing using MS SQL Server Tools.
- Experience with MS Azure technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, Databricks, Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage etc.
- Knowledge of data modelling, architectural principles and big data tools.
- Experience in diagnosing and troubleshooting complex data engineering problems, situations and/or requirements to make informed judgements in formulating solutions and recommending/deciding on best course of action.
- Demonstrable experience working systematically whilst applying self and others to drive for results across a number of complex projects with numerous interdependencies.
- Demonstrable experience managing projects and ensuring timely delivery of data solutions.
- Advanced expertise in business intelligence tools, applications, and systems.
- You have developed systems and processes to improve the use of business intelligence tools and techniques employed in your organisation.
- You have a good understanding of the relationship between the approach to pipeline developments and platform performance.
- You are experienced in peer reviewing code and promoting the application of a full range of refactoring techniques to enhance the lifespan of the code library.
- You actively seek out emerging analytical tools and techniques and find ways to apply them.
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Qualifications And Training
You are qualified to post grad diploma level (preferably in computer science, data analysis, data engineering, or related subject) or equivalent experience.
- To be able to demonstrate experience in data engineering/data warehousing role, including working with complex database developments.
About Us
It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you’ll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.
Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work – and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.
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You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
What We Offer
- Hybrid working arrangements – because NHSBT works nationally, we’re able to offer hybrid working options that give you more flexibility to balance work with life.
- Flexible working options – we promote flexible working where the role allows. We’re happy to discuss what flexibility might look like for you.
- Generous annual leave - 27 days annual leave (pro rata for part-time) plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years’ service and to 33 days after 10 years.
- Inclusive pension scheme - the NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefit scheme (not dependent on investment returns). Further details and outline of benefits can be found at: http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/information-about-nhs-pensions
- Supportive learning culture - we’ve fostered a culture of continuous learning where colleagues are well-led, engaged, and encouraged to grow. We support you in reaching your full potential, both in your current role and future career. Our Thrive program embodies our commitment to learning and development, offering a wide range of activities to support your personal and professional growth. It’s open to everyone at NHSBT, ensuring you have the resources to succeed and shine in your role.
- Health and wellbeing support – we offer confidential services including occupational health, employee assistance programme, and wellbeing resources. Our support is available to all colleagues and we endeavour to provide tailored workplace adjustments where possible.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applications from disabled candidates. We will talk with you to explore any adjustments that may help you during the recruitment process.
You can find more information about accessibility, our culture, and how we support applicants on the NHSBT Careers website:
- Read about our application process
- Learn more about our culture at NHSBT
To learn more, please see the job description and person specification. These can be accessed via the link below, or by clicking ‘Apply’ if you are viewing this advert on another site.
Next steps
This vacancy will close at 23:59pm on 6 October 2026, however this vacancy may close sooner than the advertised deadline if we receive a high volume of application.
The assessment process for this role may likely include an assessment stage and an interview.
Interviews are anticipated to be held on the 20th and 21st October 2026– subject to confirmation.
For informal enquiries please contact –
Name: Dan Edgar
Job Title: Senior Digital Delivery Manager
Contact Details: Email – dan.edgar@nhsbt.nhs.uk
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