Data Architect
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.
Main duties of the job
This is a senior position, playing a key role in the planning, design, and delivery of the Trust data management architecture, products and services, providing innovative solutions to drive improvements in clinical services and patient care.
The post holder will play a key role in shaping the role and services provided by the Data Engineering team, leading on the planning and development of the necessary architecture, tools, and resources to handle high variety, volume, and velocity data sets. The post holder will ensure effective communication of conclusions and recommendations across the organisation's leadership structure.
The post-holder will lead on the specification and development of diverse datasets, models, and dashboarding to deliver a first-class, comprehensive and proactive service to the Trust. The post holder will ensure the integrity and governance of data across all datasets.
To proactively provide highly specialised advice and guidance on data ingestion, orchestration, modelling, data mining, visualisation, Cloud services, statistical algorithms and data quantitative techniques including the development of unstructured health-related data sets and information.
The post holder will provide assessments, recommendations, and planning on the use of emerging Cloud and cognitive/data science technologies. They will follow agreed 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 description
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
Essential
* Masters qualification and / or relevant experience.
Desirable
* Evidence of continued personal development
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
* 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
Desirable
* Acute Trust NHS experience/DevOps/Analytics
Skills
Essential
* Technical - Advanced SQL Server
* Technical - Data flow & Modelling
* Technical - Visualisation platforms
* Technical - Cloud infrastructure and services (data lakes, ML Modelling, data catalogues, etc)
Desirable
* Other associated technologies
Employer details
Employer name
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Trafford House
7 Southmoor Rd
Wythenshawe
M23 9XD
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