Lead Data Engineer (Lead Data Manager)

NHS England leads the NHS to deliver high quality care for all. We support NHS organisations to deliver better outcomes for our patients and communities, work to get the best possible value for taxpayers, and drive improvement across the NHS. The Data Services division of Data and Analytics sub directorate’s vision is to be the leading data services provider for health and social care across England through creating innovative and high-quality data products and services that give our customers the knowledge and capabilities required to deliver the best outcomes for citizens.

The Data Engineering team work with a number of key delivery programmes including but not limited to:

• Federated Data Platform and Common Data Platform projects
• Curation of national data sets for onward use (e.g. Hospital Episode Statistics, Community and Mental Health, Vaccines, Prescriptions) NHS Workforce Data
• Get it right first time (GIRFT) a national programme designed to improve the treatment and care of patients
• Supporting the Tech and Data Integration team to define common data models, and ensure appropriate reference and master data management

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced data engineer to deliver complex solutions across programmes; leading technical delivery for projects, contributing to standards, and supporting senior leadership in shaping best practices.

• Design and build scalable data pipelines, products and reusable data products
• Lead delivery of medium–large data engineering initiatives Support data ingestion, transformation, and optimisation across platforms
• Implement and contribute to data quality and governance standards
• Work closely with analysts, scientists, and stakeholders to translate requirements
• Mentor junior engineers and support capability uplift
• Contribute to architecture discussions and solution design

NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department. 

If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sangeetha Venkat Job title: Assistant Director of Data Engineering Email address: [email protected]