Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity
Senior Data Engineer
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Application Deadline: 17 September 2026
Department: Fundraising
Location: Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity
Compensation: £62,000 / year
Description
Are you an experienced Data Engineer who wants to use your technical expertise to build data solutions that make a real difference?
Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to lead the development of our cloud data platform. You'll help make sure teams across the charity have access to trusted, secure, and reliable data—giving them the confidence to make better decisions for our supporters and fundraising.
This is a hands-on technical role with the opportunity to shape how our data capability evolves. You'll build and improve data pipelines and integrations, develop our data warehouse, solve complex problems, and lead and support a Data Engineer.
Salary
The salary for this role is £62,000 per annum, and we operate a hybrid working policy of a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.
In line with our EDI strategy and Total Reward policy, we calculate our salaries based on benchmarking data across the charity sector. To ensure fairness for existing staff and new joiners, we do not offer salaries above the advertised rate.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development and continuous improvement of our cloud data platform, ensuring it is reliable, secure, and able to grow with the organisation.
- Design, build, and optimise data pipelines, SQL data models, and transformations that provide teams with high-quality, accessible data.
- Build and maintain integrations between CRM, fundraising, finance, and other systems, ensuring data moves reliably and securely.
- Shape the technical roadmap for our data platform, balancing organisational needs with performance, resilience, and cost.
- Set and maintain strong standards for data quality, security, governance, and engineering best practice.
- Work with teams across the charity to understand their needs and turn them into practical, sustainable data solutions.
- Lead and develop a Data Engineer, sharing knowledge and creating clear, effective ways of working.
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Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise
- Strong experience designing, building, and maintaining modern cloud-based data platforms and data pipelines.
- Advanced SQL skills, including experience with data modelling and transformation.
- Experience developing and optimising a SQL-based data warehouse. Experience with Snowflake would be particularly valuable.
- Experience integrating data between different systems using APIs, connectors, or other integration approaches.
- Strong understanding of data quality, security, governance, and the handling of sensitive data.
- Experience improving the performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of cloud data platforms.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on automation, optimisation, and continuous improvement.
- Experience providing technical guidance and supporting or managing other data professionals.
- Strong communication and stakeholder skills, with the ability to make technical concepts understandable to non-technical colleagues.
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This is an opportunity to combine hands-on engineering with real ownership—helping us build a modern, trusted data platform that enables teams across GOSH Charity to make better use of data and ultimately deliver greater impact for seriously ill children and their families.
DBS - please note a Basic DBS check is required for this role.
How to apply
Please click on the apply button in the top right-hand corner where you will be taken to a short application form to complete.
Closing date: 17th September 2026
Benefits
- 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- A flexible approach to working arrangements.
- Access to our enhanced pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Access to various health and wellbeing schemes, including the employee assistance programme.
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