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Job Summary
The Information Department is looking for a dedicated, enthusiastic, and dynamic individual to join their innovative, award-winning team as a Trainee Senior Data Architect.
The Trainee Senior Data Architect (Band 6 Annex 21 70% of top of band) will be working towards gaining skills and experience to be competent in meeting the duties and responsibilities detailed in the job description. This will enable them to be eligible to progress into a qualified Band 6 Senior Data Architect position.
The successful candidate on this salaried scheme will undertake an 18-24 month, on-job training programme, including completion of a data-related apprenticeship, designed to give trainee data architects a sound knowledge and skill base from which to develop their career.
This is intended to be a training role; however, if a candidate has all of the skill sets detailed in the person specification, we can appoint into the full role.
The Information Team has developed a reputation for putting Information in the hands of those who need it. You will be responsible for designing and delivering information services/systems to a significant part of the Trust's business, ensuring that high-quality information analysis is available to support the delivery of service improvements within their business area and any relevant Corporate requirements.
Main duties of the job
- Support the Information Data Warehouse, ETL, and Reporting Frameworks ensuring that they are operational and adequately monitored, that problems are investigated and resolved, that systems availability meets agreed standards, and that future requirements are assessed and fed into resource planning processes.
- Support for reviewing and testing proposed changes to reporting systems and data interchange functionality, making recommendations and ensuring agreed developments are implemented in a controlled and secure way, with risks to data and systems being managed effectively.
- Support for the linking to other corporate and clinical systems, investigating data structures, negotiating access, setting up and implementing connections, and incorporating data into the Trust's reporting infrastructure.
- Providing the identification and evaluation of possible options to achieve the best technical solution considering ease of future maintenance, robustness, and scalability.
- Provide and apply expert skills to design, develop, deploy, and modify new and existing database and data integration solutions. Use tools and languages such as SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, T-SQL, Python, and XML.
- Provide the development of data outputs for reporting, complex SQL views, and tables to act as data sources for reports and web-based applications, linking in with other staff from within the department.
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About Us
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected, and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families, and carers we care for every day.
PLEASE NOTE - WE CANNOT OFFER VISA SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. If you hold a Graduate/Post Study work visa, you will only be able to work this role fixed term until the expiry date of your visa.
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A good honours degree/technical qualification in a relevant subject, or relevant experience
Desirable
- Project management qualification
- Evidence of continued professional development
Skills
Essential
- Minimum 1 year relevant experience in relational database design, Extract Transform Load (ETL) and Data Warehousing or Big Data methodologies
- Experience of staff management
- SQL skills, including working knowledge of the MS SQL server BI Stack
- Software programming languages, mainly Python
- Knowledge and experience of business intelligence reporting tools (e.g., PowerBI)
Desirable
- Experience of working within the NHS, or wider Health market
- Open Source Data Warehousing platforms (e.g., Airflow, Minio)
- Previous experience of managing medium-large projects that have utilized project management methodologies
Personal attributes
Essential
- Analytical or technical skills with the ability to analyze, interpret, and resolve complex problems
- Leadership skills including the ability to form excellent relationships
- Good standard of written, verbal, and data-driven communication skills
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Desirable
- People management skills, developed in a similar environment
Governance
Essential
- A general understanding of the NHS and key developments shaping the information agenda
Desirable
- NHS data standards and terminology, including clinical datasets
- NHS Information and data modelling concepts
- Production and maintenance of documentation
- Knowledge of statistical methods
- Training and mentoring of junior staff
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information, visit the.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.
Additional information
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information, visit the.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.
Employer details
Employer name
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Kent & Canterbury Hospital
Ethelbert Road
Canterbury
CT1 3NG
United Kingdom
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