# Trainee Data Engineer

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Adult Mental Health Services - Tower Hamlets Directorate
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Data engineer
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 per annum
- **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed term)
- **Employment type:** Part time, Job share, 18.75 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-22T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-11-02T01:01:14.394Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Data_Architecture/Data_Architecture-v8395222
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8395222?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

This is a job share role and an opportunity to spend 12 months with an award winning and internationally accredited data architecture team. Working with an experienced data architect this role would be perfect for and early career data architect or graduate looking to gain paid work experience to enhance their career prospects in this field.

This role will support the Data Warehouse team with the operational day to day extraction, transformation and loading of data from various clinical and non clinical systems into a cloud-based data warehouse server and be able to implement and provide specialist knowledge on ETL processes.

### Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opening to work on the collecting, storing, processing, and analyzing huge sets of data. The primary focus will be on choosing optimal solutions to use for these purposes, then maintaining, implementing, and monitoring them you will build ETL/ELT best practices in a data environment, featuring data pipelines, working closely with Cloud data architecture (Azure) and be an SME in relation to knowledge of big data tools/platforms, data management tools and necessary infrastructure changes.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- Manage the preparation and submission of statutory returns
- Support the delivery and ongoing strategic development of the Data Warehouse.
- Provide expert advice on aspects of Data Warehousing
- Work with a variety of highly complex data, systems and software to meet the Trusts statutory and wider corporate objectives
- Develop and implement extract-transform-load processes with the intention of providing a high-quality service with expert advice to internal teams. This includes analysis, interpretation and transformation of source data from several systems into a data warehouse.

### Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Specialist knowledge and expertise in data modelling, database development and advanced skills in T-SQL
- Knowledge of designing and building ETL packages

**Desirable**

- Advanced level of technical expertise and skills in the management and development of a data warehouse

### Knowledge and Skills

**Essential**

- Effective inter-personal skills, able to liaise with managers and clinicians at all levels internal and external to the organisation offering guidance and interpretation on complex information pertaining to the Data Warehouse and Data Modelling

### Education/ Qualification/ Training

**Essential**

- Educated to bachelor’s level in computer science, software engineering or equivalent

**Desirable**

- Has professional certification in Business Intelligence or Data warehouse technology

## Documents

- [elft strategy 2026 (pdf, 421.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3090)
- [elft staff benefits (pdf, 653.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3107)
- [jdps band 7 data engineer (pdf, 272.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10725841)
- [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844)
- [elft staff benefits leaflet new (pdf, 465.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3106)

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