Data Engineer

Description

Are you a hands\-on Data Engineer who enjoys building reliable data solutions, solving problems and continually finding better ways to make data work?

Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity is looking for a Data Engineer to help develop and improve our cloud data platform, giving teams across Fundraising, Marketing and the wider charity access to trusted, high\-quality data.

Working closely with our Senior Data Engineer, you'll be hands\-on with data pipelines, integrations and SQL every day. You'll have the opportunity to solve interesting technical challenges, improve how our systems connect and contribute ideas as our data capability continues to evolve.

Salary
The salary for this role is £56,000 per annum and we operate a hybrid working policy of a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.

In line with our EDI strategy and Total Reward policy, we calculate our salaries based on benchmarking data across the charity sector. To ensure fairness for existing staff and new joiners, we do not offer salaries above the advertised rate.### Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimise data pipelines that provide reliable, accessible data across the organisation.


• Develop and improve SQL\-based data models, transformations and queries.


• Build and maintain integrations between CRM, fundraising, finance, digital and other systems, ensuring data moves securely and reliably.


• Help evolve our cloud data warehouse, identifying opportunities to automate processes, improve performance and simplify how we work.


• Monitor and troubleshoot platform and pipeline performance, improving reliability, efficiency and cost\-effectiveness.


• Help maintain high standards of data quality, security and governance so colleagues can trust the information they use.


• Work closely with Fundraising, Marketing, Technology and other teams to understand their needs and turn them into effective data solutions.


• Document solutions and share knowledge, helping us build a resilient and sustainable data capability.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Strong hands\-on experience designing, building and maintaining data pipelines and integrations.


• Advanced SQL skills, including experience with data modelling, transformations and query optimisation.


• Experience working with cloud\-based data warehouses. Snowflake experience would be particularly valuable.


• Experience integrating data from different systems using APIs, connectors or other integration approaches.


• Understanding of modern data engineering practices, including data quality, security and governance.


• Strong analytical and problem\-solving skills, with an interest in automation, optimisation and continuous improvement.


• Good communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non\-technical colleagues.


• Experience working with CRM, finance, digital or other integrated business systems.

How to Apply
Please click on the apply button in the top right\-hand corner where you will be taken to a short application form to complete.

Closing date: 1st October 2026

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis and we reserve the right to close the roles prior to the closing date should suitable applicants be found.### Benefits

• 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)


• A flexible approach to working arrangements.


• Access to our enhanced pension scheme


• Life assurance


• Access to various health and wellbeing schemes, including the employee assistance programme.

Every day, around 750 children and young people from across the UK are seen at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). At Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, we help the hospital go above and beyond for seriously ill children, enabling kinder and better treatments, bringing hope for children with the rarest and most complex illnesses, and making hospital a little bit easier and a lot more fun for the thousands of children who are treated at GOSH every year. Our staff raise vital funds to support ground\-breaking research, cutting\-edge medical equipment, and the creation of child\-centred facilities to help save more young lives, and essential support services that help save childhoods too.

Together, we can help give seriously ill children the best chance, and the best childhood, possible.

Our commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

We believe that GOSH Charity and the charity sector more widely should reflect the diversity of patients, communities, and society at large. We also know that having a more diverse and inclusive workforce will make us more innovative, challenge the status quo, and enable us to deliver more impact. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. In particular, we encourage applications from those who are currently under represented within the charity sector as they may be marginalised by race and/or ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, long\-term health conditions, or socioeconomic status.

If you would like more information about our approach to inclusive hiring please see our Inclusive Hiring Page here. You can also find out more about our commitments to EDI within our EDI Strategy here https://www.gosh.org/about\-us/equality\-diversity\-and\-inclusion\-edi\-strategy/

As a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer we are more than happy to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible throughout the recruitment process. For more information on this please contact recruitment@gosh.org

Applications will be reviewed on an on\-going basis and we reserve the right to close the role prior to the closing date, should a suitable applicant be found. Therefore, you are encouraged to apply right away, to avoid disappointment.

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