Your new organisation

Sussex Community Foundation Trust is the main provider of NHS community health and care services across West Sussex, Brighton & Hove and High Weald Lewes Havens area of East Sussex. They provide a wide range of medical, nursing and therapeutic care to over 8,000 people a day and work to help people plan, manage and adapt to changes in their health, to prevent avoidable admission to hospital and to minimise hospital stay. Digital is at the centre of their organisational ambition and they are now seeking to recruit a Head of Data Engineering to work with and lead a team of Data Engineers/Data Integration Analysts in Brighton, East Sussex.

Your new role

This strategically crucial position will play a leading role in providing expert leadership, advice and guidance to advance the digital agenda by building data awareness and use, whilst also building the data engineering capability across the Trust, providing both technical expertise and strategic direction. Your primary overall focus will be to lead and enable the data engineering team to deliver robust, effective data products and services for the organisation, ensuring best practice.

What you'll need to succeed

Your proven experience will have included a role in which you have developed future-proof data services to meet evolving needs, and taking the lead on data design, development and management of a team. You should have worked with and integrated data feeds in order to map, produce, transform and test new data products and managed resources to ensure that data services work effectively.

You will be responsible for owning and developing data analytics and Business Intelligence tools used to deliver reporting (using the full Qlik tool chain), using data from key systems such as SystemOne, BEST, IAPTUS, and data across the local system via the Trust Integration Engine.

In addition, a key requirement will be the developing and advising on standards in relation to software development and database design processes to include SQL, VB.NET, C#, ETL, and stored procedures as well as designing, writing an iterating code from prototype to production-ready, using a range of coding tools and languages. You will also have proven and demonstrable people management experience in a prior role of leading and mentoring a team of Data specialists.

What you'll get in return

This role is available for hybrid working and when a hospital office presence is required, it will including working in Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, High Weald Lewes and Havens and West Sussex. Being close to the sea and the South Downs, with close links to London, it is a vibrant, thriving part of the country in which to work and enjoy that all-important work-life balance through the generous annual leave and flexible working arrangements available. Amongst the unrivalled range of employee benefits includes membership of the renowned and industry respected NHS Pension scheme, and a choice of salary sacrifice discounts to supplement the competitive salary available for this role.