Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse lead

Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse Lead

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Trust's Performance and Information Team for an experienced senior informatics professional to play a key role in the ongoing development and transformation of the Trust's data warehouse and Business Intelligence solutions.

We are seeking a passionate and forward-thinking individual with a proven track record of driving improvements in Business Intelligence. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Microsoft SQL Server for data warehouse development and the administration of an enterprise-level Business Intelligence platform, such as Tableau.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled informatics professional to make a significant impact within the Trust. If you are passionate about Business Intelligence and eager to drive meaningful change, we encourage you to apply.

Main Duties of the Job

The successful candidate will provide technical leadership for the Trust's Information Management team, serving as an authoritative source of expertise. A key aspect of this role involves enhancing existing solutions and scripts to optimize efficiency and accuracy, as well as conducting peer reviews of code through a structured change control process.

Working closely with the Associate Director of Performance and Information and the team's Principal Analyst, the post holder will contribute to shaping the future direction of the team and its strategic developments.

We are proud to offer agile and flexible working opportunities as part of our new ways of working. In this role, you will be able to work flexibly throughout Monday to Friday around the core time frames from 10 to 4, giving you the very best of good work-life balance.

About Us

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. We have expert services, a rich history, and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us as we are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti-racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development, and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

Job Responsibilities

1. Provide support as the subject matter expert in the determination of Trust data and business information system requirements; offering detailed advice on data collection, management, and reporting strategies.
2. Develop and implement cutting-edge business intelligence tools which may not be used by any other NHS organisations to deliver the Trust's Digital Strategy and service transformation programmes.
3. Responsible for the development and operation of multiple business-critical Trust-wide business intelligence systems.
4. Provide authoritative expert information to senior staff including executives, guidance, and advice on all matters pertaining to the design, development, implementation, and support of the Trust data warehouse.
5. Be the driving force behind the adoption of new data technologies in the organisation.
6. Ensure the development and delivery of integrated performance dashboards to support effective performance management and decision-making for all staff across the Trust.
7. Line manage the Information Management and Business Intelligence development team to provide mentoring, staff development, and appraisal.
8. Design Trust-wide systems to identify data quality issues and manage strategies to resolve them.
9. Design and develop data schemas using Microsoft SQL Server and associated technologies.
10. Demonstrate an ability through previous experience of administering an enterprise-level Business Intelligence software, such as Tableau Server.
11. Provide a DBA function to the Business Intelligence team by fine-tuning queries and implementing a change management approach.
12. Be familiar with and be an expert in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle.
13. Liaise and work closely with the IT Modernisation team to maintain, develop, and enhance infrastructure supporting BI.
14. Update and maintain the detailed functional and technical system specifications of the data warehouse and BI platform.
15. Keep up to date on industry best practice, frameworks, methods, and tools relating to the design, development, implementation, and support of data warehouses, and data management.

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

• Masters Level Degree or equivalent experience in database architecture, design, and development.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• PRINCE 2 or equivalent Project Management experience.

Experience

• Significant proven experience of implementing and developing business information systems tools within a large organisation.
• Significant experience (5 years+) of designing and managing a SQL Server data warehouse, developing data feeds, and working with complex data sets.
• Line management experience of highly technical staff.
• Significant experience in a senior informatics role.
• Experience of Business Information Systems and data sets in the NHS.
• Experience of leading an information team in the Healthcare sector.

Knowledge & Skills

• Detailed and expert knowledge of the software delivery lifecycle in relation to physical data design and development.
• Proven ability to lead a BI transformation project.
• Detailed and expert knowledge of enterprise architecture, and of the approaches, methods, and tools used.
• Clear understanding and detailed working knowledge of data structures and data warehousing techniques.
• Expert level knowledge and experience of Microsoft SQL Server, Power BI.
• Knowledge of data security and assurance in the NHS or public sector.
• Good working knowledge of NHS datasets (patient, workforce, finance etc.) and key metrics.

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.

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Associate Director of Performance and Information

£67,950 to £78,028 a year per annum inclusive of outer London HCAS