Lead Data Engineer

The Lead Data Engineer will manage all Data Engineering services from both technical and service perspectives ensuring that they are fit for purpose and effective IT Service Management processes and activities are in place and being followed. Your responsibilities will include:

• Manage and lead a team of Data Engineers in the Data Product Centre, including appraisal, development, and recruitment.
• Authorise expenses and other similar payments.
• Provide technical and strategic leadership to drive improvements in the quality and efficiency of Data Engineering services.
• Undertake research and development tasks, including reviewing of new and emerging technologies, products, and tools, and bring these to the attention of the Data Product Centre.
• Effective stakeholder management and communication to ensure DDTS and user communities at all levels are engaged on topics related to the Data Engineering services that they use.
• Contribute towards Data Engineering design activities to ensure they are fit for purpose and take ownership of these services within day-to-day BAU.
• Provide all lines of support as required for services owned.
You may be required to work irregular hours and to travel, including overnight stays when required (with appropriate prior notice).

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is a unique organisation that works to save and improve lives every day. We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer who is passionate about using data to make a real difference to join the NHSBT Data Intelligence Programme. This programme is central to NHSBTs modernisation and transformation plans, helping turn data into meaningful insights that improve donor and patient care. Through innovative, efficient, and high-quality services, the programme supports key organisational goals, including strengthening blood stock resilience, improving clinical quality, and delivering safer, more inclusive, and more efficient operations. It also ensures that managers have access to faster, more timely, and reliable data to support decision-making. Everything we do is ultimately about improving care and outcomes for donors and patients, and we are bringing together professionals with the vision, influence, and expertise to unlock the full potential of data in NHSBT. So, if you share our passion and want your work to make a meaningful, measurable impact on healthcare across the UK, wed love to hear from you., It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.