Senior Digital, Data & Infrastructure Engineer

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.

Job description Job 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.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications Essential

• Degree (or equivalent experience) in a technical, digital, data engineering or computing discipline.
• Strong understanding of modern cloud based data platforms and how data engineering and platform design support large scale analytics and intelligence delivery.
• Significant equivalent experience in NHS or public sector digital or data platform roles.

Desirable

• Postgraduate qualification in computer science, data engineering, cloud computing or related field.
• Relevant professional certifications (e.g. cloud, data platform, infrastructure or security).

Experience Essential

• Significant experience designing, building and operating data platforms or data engineering solutions.
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries in complex systems.
• Leading technical workstreams or platform components.
• Experience with data integration, modelling, validation and performance optimisation.
• Working with senior stakeholders to deliver technical solutions that meet strategic needs.

Desirable

• Experience of health or care data environments.
• Experience supporting large scale, multi organisation platforms.
• Experience managing infrastructure services or technical suppliers.
• Experience enabling governed self service access to data.

Skills and Knowledge Essential

• Strong data engineering skills, including t-sql and spark spark sql; fabric or data factory pipelines; fabric notebook; data flows and data modelling.
• Understanding of cloud data architectures, platform services and infrastructure concepts.
• Experience designing secure, well governed data solutions.
• Strong problem solving and systems thinking capability.
• Excellent technical communication and documentation skills.
• Practical experience with Microsoft Fabric, including data pipelines, Lakehouse/Warehouse concepts, semantic models or Power BI integration.

Desirable

• Programming or orchestration tools (e.g. Python, DAX, Azure).
• Knowledge of NHS data governance and information standards.

Personal Qualities Essential

• Professional, credible and resilient under pressure
• Comfortable working in complex, ambiguous technical environments.
• Collaborative, inclusive and values-driven leadership style
• Committed to continuous personal and team development.

Person Specification Education and Qualifications Essential

• Degree (or equivalent experience) in a technical, digital, data engineering or computing discipline.
• Strong understanding of modern cloud based data platforms and how data engineering and platform design support large scale analytics and intelligence delivery.
• Significant equivalent experience in NHS or public sector digital or data platform roles.

Desirable

• Postgraduate qualification in computer science, data engineering, cloud computing or related field.
• Relevant professional certifications (e.g. cloud, data platform, infrastructure or security).

Experience Essential

• Significant experience designing, building and operating data platforms or data engineering solutions.
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries in complex systems.
• Leading technical workstreams or platform components.
• Experience with data integration, modelling, validation and performance optimisation.
• Working with senior stakeholders to deliver technical solutions that meet strategic needs.

Desirable

• Experience of health or care data environments.
• Experience supporting large scale, multi organisation platforms.
• Experience managing infrastructure services or technical suppliers.
• Experience enabling governed self service access to data.

Skills and Knowledge Essential

• Strong data engineering skills, including t-sql and spark spark sql; fabric or data factory pipelines; fabric notebook; data flows and data modelling.
• Understanding of cloud data architectures, platform services and infrastructure concepts.
• Experience designing secure, well governed data solutions.
• Strong problem solving and systems thinking capability.
• Excellent technical communication and documentation skills.
• Practical experience with Microsoft Fabric, including data pipelines, Lakehouse/Warehouse concepts, semantic models or Power BI integration.

Desirable

• Programming or orchestration tools (e.g. Python, DAX, Azure).
• Knowledge of NHS data governance and information standards.

Personal Qualities Essential

• Professional, credible and resilient under pressure
• Comfortable working in complex, ambiguous technical environments.
• Collaborative, inclusive and values-driven leadership style
• Committed to continuous personal and team development.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

ICB Headquarters

Eyre Street

Sheffield

S1 3FG

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.sth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

ICB Headquarters

Eyre Street

Sheffield

S1 3FG

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.sth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of Business Intelligence and Analytics

Mathew Hird

[email protected]

07921132363

Details

Date posted

06 October 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515 a year pa/pro rata for part time staff

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

190-1985-DIR

Job locations

ICB Headquarters

Eyre Street

Sheffield

S1 3FG

United Kingdom

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 CancerAlliance.

Main duties

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.