Enterprise Data Architect - NHS Digital Data & Technology
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AI Summary
This role involves leading enterprise data platform architecture within the NHS Trust, focusing on data lakes, warehouses, and cloud-native solutions. The Data Architect will oversee data quality, develop technical strategies, and support clinical analytics for improved patient care. It offers a senior leadership position with technical and strategic responsibilities in a healthcare setting.
Key Highlights
Lead the architecture of enterprise data platforms including data lakes, warehouses, and cloud solutions
Manage data quality, security, and compliance for clinical and operational datasets
Support analytics and decision-making through technical leadership and innovative technology review
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
£64,455 - £74,896 annual salary
NHS pension scheme
Flexible working opportunities
27 days annual leave + bank holidays, increasing with service
On-site nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts
Learning and development options
Job Description
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Main area
DDaT - Enterprise Architecture
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
193-7611855COR
Site
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Town
Reading
Salary
£64,455 - £74,896 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/12/2025 23:59
At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is "Working together to provide outstanding care for our community."
Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ' Good' with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements. The Trust's overall rating has also improved to 'good'.
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At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, we value candidates who bring their unique personalities, skills, and experiences to the Trust. When completing your application, we encourage you to highlight your individual achievements and strengths, showing us how they align with the requirements outlined in the job description and person specification. While we recognise that some applicants may use AI tools during the process, please be mindful that AI-generated responses can often lack the personal detail and relevance needed to demonstrate your suitability for the role. AI generated content is discouraged by the Trust and may diminish the candidates chances of success.
Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don't you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.
Job Overview
The Data Architect is a key member of the Digital Data & Technology
(DDaT) team, adding value for our patients through improving and
developing digital services across the Trust and wider health and care
system.
Ensure the Data Warehouse and BI teams are an effective component of
the Trust's DDaT target operating model, working alongside others, delivering continuous overall improvement. The Data Architect is responsible for teams delivering accurate and timely datasets and analytics to support clinical services, in line with Trust priorities. They will also pro-actively review new and emerging technologies and their potential benefit to the Trust, and where relevant develop business cases for these technologies.
The role has a strong client focus, manages complex and sensitive
information, liaises and communicates with clinical and non-clinical staff
and external suppliers to ensure quality standards are met for any changes deployed.
They take a leading role in how their teams operate, supporting the
organisation (and the ICS), and enabling innovation and supporting delivery of local, regional and national strategy.
Ensure that services are supported with consistent, professional and value adding expertise from the Data Warehouse and BI teams.
The role requires an expert technical base and the ability to deliver as well
as manage technical solutions.
Main duties of the job
- Provide leadership and senior specialist technical support for the existing set of data applications in SQL server, Exasol, Tableau, Azure.
- Ensure the data warehouse and BI teams are kept abreast of current technologies in their respective spaces; engendering an understanding of current and future opportunities.
- Ensure the Data Warehouse and BI team deliver accurate and timely datasets to support clinical operational services, research and clinical analytics in line with Trust priorities, that support direct care delivery and lead to research funding.
- Specify, develop and maintain technical standard operating procedures used by the Data Warehouse and BI teams and ensure they are followed.
- Act as senior point of contact to solve user and system problems.
- Lead on projects with the analytics and other digital colleagues to ensure that the Trust's requirements are met and enable the production of analysis that helps the Trust to understand and improve quality and safety of care.
- Advise key internal customers/stakeholders on management and storage of datasets and analysis tools available to them.
- Assist in managing the secure data environment quality function where data quality issues (e.g. inconsistency, referential integrity, missing data) are identified from investigations of data within the warehouse; maintaining an Issue log whereby issues are logged and tracked through to resolution.
Diversity makes us interesting Inclusion is what will make us outstanding.
Inequality exists and the journey to eliminate it is not easy. Every step we take will be a purposeful step forward to deliver a truly inclusive culture where all our people are enabled to deliver outstanding care, where background is no barrier, and where everyone can be their authentic self and we truly represent our patient community.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where possible. All applicants who have a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the post can opt for a guaranteed interview.
If you need additional help with your application please get in touch by calling the recruitment team on 0118 322 6997 or 0118 322 5342.
Our primary method of communication will be via email. However, if you would prefer to be contacted through a different method, please inform the recruitment team.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Be responsible for complex and sensitive datasets for internal customers and external parties to support clinical analytics, evaluation, research, and operational decision making.
- Advise key internal customers/stakeholders on management and storage of datasets and analysis tools available to them.
- Assist in managing the secure data environment quality function where data quality issues (e.g. inconsistency, referential integrity, missing data) are identified from investigations of data within the warehouse; maintaining an Issue log whereby issues are logged and tracked through to resolution.
- Overall responsibility for co-ordinating the logging of key data quality problems with the internal back office and system suppliers and oversee the resolution of the issues by working together with these internal and external parties.
- Support the maintenance and improvement of the secure data environment as a system, including relevant system documentation. Maintain and monitor the secure data environment such that it is dependable, reliable, timely and has a robust disaster recovery mechanism in place.
Lead the end-to-end architecture of enterprise data platforms
Essential criteria
- Data Lakes, Lakehouse, and Data Warehouses.
- Design and maintain canonical data models (conceptual, logical, and physical) for structured, semi-structured
Essential criteria
- leveraging AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Extensive exprience in developing architectural strategies, blueprints for hybrid and cloud-native solutions
Essential criteria
- Develop robust ELT/ETL pipelines using tools like Apache Airflow, DBT, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, or Kafka Connect.
- Optimize data transformations for performance, reusability, and modular design (e.g., using SQL/Scala/Python).
Staff Benefits
- Flexible working opportunities and a strong emphasis on your work, life balance
- Annual leave - 27 days for new starters, plus bank holidays. Increasing to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years NHS service. Pro rata for part time staff
- NHS pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Money Advice Service
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave for eligible staff
- On-site nursery (based at RBH)
- Full educational library services
- Cycle to work scheme, lockable storage for cycles
- Bus to work scheme
- Excellent rail and bus links
- A huge range of Health Service Discounts at hundreds of big brands from holidays to gadgets and restaurants to retail.
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Appointment to any position is conditional on the satisfactory completion of the core NHS Employment Checks Standards. Information disclosed in your application will be checked and any offer of appointment may be withdrawn if you knowingly withhold information or provide false or misleading information. All new appointments to the Trust, with the exception of executive positions, are subject to a 6 month probationary period.
The Trust may close any vacancy prior to the advertised closing date due to the high level of responses we receive for some of our vacancies.
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is committed to improving the health of its staff, patients and the wider community by providing a smoke free environment. A smoke free policy is in operation and smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust's sites.
The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children, young people and vulnerable adults.
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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.
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