Senior Data Engineer
Description
Are you an experienced Data Engineer who wants to use your technical expertise to build data solutions that make a real difference?
Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to lead the development of our cloud data platform. You'll help make sure teams across the charity have access to trusted, secure and reliable data—giving them the confidence to make better decisions for our supporters and fundraising.
This is a hands\-on technical role with the opportunity to shape how our data capability evolves. You'll build and improve data pipelines and integrations, develop our data warehouse, solve complex problems and lead and support a Data Engineer.
Salary
The salary for this role is £62,000 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
- Lead the development and continuous improvement of our cloud data platform, ensuring it is reliable, secure and able to grow with the organisation.
- Design, build and optimise data pipelines, SQL data models and transformations that provide teams with high\-quality, accessible data.
- Build and maintain integrations between CRM, fundraising, finance and other systems, ensuring data moves reliably and securely.
- Shape the technical roadmap for our data platform, balancing organisational needs with performance, resilience and cost.
- Set and maintain strong standards for data quality, security, governance and engineering best practice.
- Work with teams across the charity to understand their needs and turn them into practical, sustainable data solutions.
- Lead and develop a Data Engineer, sharing knowledge and creating clear, effective ways of working.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Strong experience designing, building and maintaining modern cloud\-based data platforms and data pipelines.
- Advanced SQL skills, including experience with data modelling and transformation.
- Experience developing and optimising a SQL\-based data warehouse. Experience with Snowflake would be particularly valuable.
- Experience integrating data between different systems using APIs, connectors or other integration approaches.
- Strong understanding of data quality, security, governance and the handling of sensitive data.
- Experience improving the performance, reliability and cost\-effectiveness of cloud data platforms.
- Strong problem\-solving skills, with a focus on automation, optimisation and continuous improvement.
- Experience providing technical guidance and supporting or managing other data professionals.
- Strong communication and stakeholder skills, with the ability to make technical concepts understandable to non\-technical colleagues.
DBS \- please note a Basic DBS check is required for this role.
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: 17th September 2026### 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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