Data Architect

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Data Science and clinical intelligence are revolutionising healthcare, offering opportunities for continuous clinical improvement as well as more personalised care. In this senior role, you will lead on the design, delivery, and continued improvement of our data management platform and services.

As we seek to improve clinical quality through digital solutions, we'll look to your expertise in designing and developing data solutions, with a particular focus on cloud and web-based data platforming.

You will also lead on the specification and development of datasets, processes and data governance, ensuring we deliver a first-class service to the Trust.

• On-site working (Trafford House, Wythenshawe) will be required in some form.
• If you are shortlisted, you can expect to hear from us within 5 working days of the advert closing. Interviews will be conducted on-site at Trafford House, Wythenshawe.
• Applications - please ensure evidence of experience and application of technical skills are included within your application.

While a background in the NHS is welcome, this is also an opportunity for specialists from other backgrounds to challenge their expertise within the acute healthcare sector. Along with advanced technical and analytical skills, experience of designing and delivering large, enterprise-wide relational modelling and analytical solutions is critical. Knowledge of SQL, ETL, modelling, data science, and visualisations platforms is essential.

Main duties of the job

Playing key role in planning, design & delivery of Trust data management architecture, products & services, providing innovative solutions to drive improvements in clinical services and patient care.

Candidates with extensive experience in design & delivery of large enterprise-wide data lakes/data warehousing. Candidates will demonstrate in-depth knowledge of Cloud-based platforms and services. Extensive use of range of database technologies and methodologies.

Play role in shaping services provided by Data Engineering team, leading on planning & development of necessary architecture, tools, and resources to handle high variety, volume, and velocity data. Post holder will ensure effective communication of recommendations across the leadership structure.

Post-holder to lead specification & development of diverse datasets, models, and dashboarding to deliver first class, comprehensive and proactive service. Post holder to ensure integrity & governance of data.

Proactively provide advice and guidance on data ingestion, orchestration, modelling, data mining, visualisation, Cloud services, statistical algorithms & data quantitative techniques including development of unstructured health related data.

Post holder will provide assessments, recommendations, and planning on use of emerging Cloud and cognitive/data science technologies. Follow methodology and approach for developing and managing data science projects and advanced analytics in the Trust.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Job responsibilities

MFT's Digital Team

Joining the digital service puts you at the heart of the Trust's digital enablement journey. The implementation of the Hive Electronic Patients Record (EPR), powered by EPIC, in September 2022, which was the biggest of its kind in the UK at that time, was the first step in realising the MFT vision of a Digital First organisation and significantly increases the Trust's capability to unleash the power of data, through its ability to capture high quality/volume acute clinical and non-clinical services data and to exploit this data to catalyse digital transformation and support improved patient care.

As a member of the digital team you will directly support the organisation to deliver and improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness, and research.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that you're even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We're looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Masters qualification and / or relevant experience.
• Evidence of continued personal development.

Knowledge and Experience

• Design/delivery of Data management products/services (SQL, data platforms & modelling).
• Design/delivery of Visualisation/Analytics Platforms.
• Design/delivery of Cloud/Data Science/ML/Data lakes.
• Leadership/Management of teams & projects.
• Acute Trust NHS experience/DevOps/Analytics.

Skills

• Technical - Advanced SQL Server.
• Technical - Data flow & Modelling.
• Technical - Visualisation platforms.
• Technical - Cloud infrastructure and services (data lakes, ML Modelling, data catalogues, etc).
• Other associated technologies.

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.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust