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Job requirements
Essential
18 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Significant experience designing, building and operating data platforms or data engineering solutions.
- Experience
Experience of working across organisational boundaries in complex systems.
- Experience
Leading technical workstreams or platform components.
- Experience
Experience with data integration, modelling, validation and performance optimisation.
- Experience
Working with senior stakeholders to deliver technical solutions that meet strategic needs.
- Personal Qualities
Professional, credible and resilient under pressure
- Personal Qualities
Comfortable working in complex, ambiguous technical environments.
- Personal Qualities
Collaborative, inclusive and values‑driven leadership style
- Personal Qualities
Committed to continuous personal and team development.
- Skills and Knowledge
Strong data engineering skills, including t-sql and spark spark sql; fabric or data factory pipelines; fabric notebook; data flows and data modelling.
- Skills and Knowledge
Understanding of cloud data architectures, platform services and infrastructure concepts.
- Skills and Knowledge
Experience designing secure, well governed data solutions.
- Skills and Knowledge
Strong problem solving and systems thinking capability.
- Skills and Knowledge
Excellent technical communication and documentation skills.
- Skills and Knowledge
Practical experience with Microsoft Fabric, including data pipelines, Lakehouse/Warehouse concepts, semantic models or Power BI integration.
- Education and Qualifications
Degree (or equivalent experience) in a technical, digital, data engineering or computing discipline.
- Education and Qualifications
Strong understanding of modern cloud based data platforms and how data engineering and platform design support large scale analytics and intelligence delivery.
- Education and Qualifications
Significant equivalent experience in NHS or public sector digital or data platform roles.
Desirable
8 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience of health or care data environments.
- Experience
Experience supporting large scale, multi organisation platforms.
- Experience
Experience managing infrastructure services or technical suppliers.
- Experience
Experience enabling governed self service access to data.
- Skills and Knowledge
Programming or orchestration tools (e.g. Python, DAX, Azure).
- Skills and Knowledge
Knowledge of NHS data governance and information standards.
- Education and Qualifications
Postgraduate qualification in computer science, data engineering, cloud computing or related field.
- Education and Qualifications
Relevant professional certifications (e.g. cloud, data platform, infrastructure or security).
Job overview
The post holder will provide specialist digital, data and infrastructure engineering expertise to support business intelligence, reporting, analytics and insight across the South Yorkshire & Bassetlaw Cancer Alliance.
The post holder will develop, implement and maintain secure, reliable and scalable data solutions, data pipelines and supporting technical infrastructure that enable the effective delivery of cancer information and intelligence services across the Cancer Alliance.
Main duties of the job
Working within agreed organisational strategies, technical frameworks, architecture standards and governance arrangements, the post holder will apply specialist knowledge of data engineering, cloud technologies, data integration and business intelligence platforms to support the delivery of technical solutions that meet operational, analytical and reporting requirements.
The post holder will translate business and information requirements into technical specifications and support the development of solutions that ensure cancer data from multiple sources is integrated, managed and made available for reporting, analysis and decision-making purposes.
The role requires specialist knowledge of data engineering, cloud platforms, data modelling, data integration, digital infrastructure and NHS information standards, acquired through degree-level study, equivalent specialist training and significant practical experience.
The post holder will work collaboratively with colleagues across the Cancer Alliance, South Yorkshire ICB, NHS provider organisations and partner agencies to support the ongoing development of modern data and analytics capabilities and contribute to service improvement initiatives.
The post holder will exercise professional judgement in resolving complex technical issues, adapting established approaches where appropriate and working within agreed policies, procedures and technical standards.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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This advert is for Senior Digital, Data & Infrastructure Engineer with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Sheffield, England. It is listed as a Band 7 IT engineer role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 pa/pro rata for part time staff. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 18 Oct 2026.
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