Data Architect

Data Architect| Remote| FT| Permanent| Salary DOE+ Comprehensive Benefits
We are one of the UK's leading independent hospital groups and the largest in terms of revenue. From our 39 hospitals and 33 clinics, medical centres and consulting rooms across England, Wales, and Scotland, we provide diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care in areas including orthopaedics, gynaecology, cardiology, neurology, oncology, and general surgery. We also operate a network of private GPs and provide occupational health services to over 700 corporate clients. We are the principal independent provider by volume of knee and hip operations in the United Kingdom.
The group was founded with the acquisition and re-branding of 25 Bupa hospitals in 2007. Since then, Spire Healthcare has made significant capital investments in its estate and continues to deliver successful and award-winning clinical outcomes and high levels of patient satisfaction.
Spire is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 250. We were the first private hospital provider to publish outcomes data on our website and we have received awards for our clinical quality and high levels of patient satisfaction.
Spire Healthcare is committed to the highest quality of patient care. Working in partnership with over 8,760 experienced consultants, we delivered tailored, personalised care to approximately 926,500 inpatients, outpatients, and day case patients in 2022.Patients, consultants, and general practitioners trust Spire Healthcare to deliver the high-quality care they expect from a leading private healthcare provider.
We are now looking for Data Architect to join our existing team. In this role you will be an instrumental leader in driving transformational change across the organisation through the development and management of our data platform and capabilities. You will work across multiple projects and business units, playing a critical role in the successful modelling, analytics and reporting of data across the group.
Key Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining end-to-end data architecture that leverages Microsoft Fabric Services.
  
• Creating and overseeing the generation of logical data models to represent critical business entities working alongside data modellers and engineers to translate these into optimised physical data models.
  
• Designing, building and optimising reusable data pipelines for ingestion from diverse source systems (on-prem, cloud, third party) and design effective ELT/ETL transformation to prepare data for analytics and reporting.
  
• Ensuring all data solutions comply with UK healthcare regulations and standards, maintaining high levels of data privacy and security
  
• Overseeing the implementation of data solutions, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope, and of high quality. Provide technical leadership and guidance to project teams, ensuring best practices and adherence to architectural principles.
  
• Creating detailed documentation for data processing and models and provide training to relevant stakeholders to ensure proper understanding and usage.
  
• Collaborating with business units, project teams, and external stakeholders to understand requirements and provide effective solutions. Coordinate with the stakeholders to report on value stream progress and benefits realization, contributing to the delivery of strategic OKRs.
  
• Evaluating and recommending new technologies and tools that align with Spire's strategic goals and improve overall efficiency.
  
• Ensuring and enforcing the use of architectural governance frameworks, policies, and standards throughout the lifecycle of data solution creation and delivery and represent assigned value streams at governance forums, planning events and other forums to provide alignment, consistency and effective governance
  
• Collaboratively developing the value stream roadmap, incorporating insights from stakeholders, SMO and incorporating value stream plans into our wider strategic technology roadmap.
  Key Requirements:
  
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
  
• Extensive experience in data engineering, BI, or database architecture roles ideally within a healthcare environment.
  
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms and environments.
  
• Demonstrated track record designing end-to-end data solutions on Microsoft platforms (Fabric, Azure, SQL Server, Power BI).
  
• Experience with data integration patterns (e.g., batch ETL, real-time streaming, event-driven).
  
• Ability to design unified, reusable logical models that can serve both analytics and integration use cases.
  
• Understanding and experience applying master data management (MDM) principles, data quality frameworks and data governance best practices.
  
• Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt.
  
• Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies and roadmaps.
  
• Ability to deliver presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences.
  
• Demonstrable experience of working in a regulated environment.
  Benefits:
  We offer employed colleagues a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
  
• 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
  
• Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
  
• 'Spire for you' reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
  
• Free wellness screening
  
• Private medical insurance
  
• Life assurance
  Spire Healthcare is committed to creating an environment that will attract, retain, and motivate its people. We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to the health and wellbeing of all our colleagues and consultants.
  We firmly believe that it is our people that make the business successful, and everyone should have the opportunity to work in a motivated team, free from discrimination on any grounds. We, therefore, are keen to receive and review applications from all candidates of under-represented groups who feel they offer the requisite skills.
  For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people