Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Application Deadline: 1 October 2026

Department: Fundraising

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity

Reporting To: Ciara Burke

Compensation: £56,000 / year

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.

DBS - note a basic DBS check is required for this role.

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.