Junior Data Engineer

This role sits within the business intelligence team, strategy directorate and supports the development, alignment and delivery of system-wide priorities that advance the ICB's mission to improve population health and reduce health inequalities.

The post holder will support automation of processes and procedures using appropriate tools to optimise workflows, reduce dependencies on manual resources, and decrease error rates

Implement processes to investigate data errors, identify and analyse source of variations of errors in information reports.

Monitor and audit data quality and work with colleagues, from across the organisation, to improve quality of the information.

Interrogate production database as required to address issues flagged

Manage and maintain the data dictionary for the department to cover the datasets available in the data warehouse, data source, frequency/latency etc.

Ability to understand complex information, diagnose system issues & formulateappropriate solutions Develop and maintain relationships with data providers, DSCRO as well as One London data and analytics service teams work with a range of stakeholders to gather requirements for new data feeds and changes to existing data feeds

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Contribute to effective team working by transferring specialist skills and knowledge toappropriate staff and ensuring that working procedures are properly documented and maintained

Ensure the IG processes and procedures are followed beforeacquiring the data and also report any data breaches/incidents on a timely basis

Ensure data issues are logged via theappropriate service desk portal used by One London data and analytics service, DSCRO teams and follow-up to ensure there is timely resolution

Manage andmaintain the data dictionary for the department to cover the datasets available in the data warehouse, data source, frequency/latency etc.

Monitor and audit data quality and work with colleagues, from across the organisation, to improve quality of the information.

Ability to understand complex information, diagnose system issues & formulateappropriate solutions

We are looking for a passionate junior data engineer who is responsible for supporting development and maintenance of data engineering pipelines, workflows and Snowflake apps for West and North London ICB. The post holder will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team alongside data engineers, analysts and data scientists, the role holder will develop core data engineering skills while contributing to the delivery of data products and services.

The post-holders will play a critical role in the future development of the ICBs data warehouse, associated data quality reports and management reports as well as delivering reference data management and transformations required by the analytics teams

Closing date: 8 October 2026

Date of Interview: week commencing 26th October 2026

NHS West and North London ICB is the main commissioning NHS organisation for planning and funding health services across our area. Our job is simple: to help people stay healthy and to make sure everyone can get good care when they need it.

We bring together many health and care services across west and north London. This means we help hospitals, GPs, community services, councils and charities work better together for local people.

NHS West and North London (WNL) serves over 4.5 million people and covers 13 London boroughs. (Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Enfield, Hammersmith & Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster)

What we do

Our strategy

Education / Qualifications

Desirable: - Knowledge of information governance and data confidentiality standards; - Knowledge of quality improvement approaches; - Experience of undertaking audits

Experience

Desirable: - Experience of using GITHu; - Experience of using DevOps

Knowledge