Data Engineer
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£41,700
(£21.38 per hour)
Standard minimum applies
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Description
Full-time, Permanent
Hybrid role based in Bristol or London, with required travel to the office for meetings and team days
The Role
We’re looking for someone who is passionate about data and excited to help grow our Data Engineering capability and the way we use data and analytics at Bupa Dental Care (BDC). As a Data Engineer, you’ll be a key member of the team, contributing to the delivery of priority Bupa Dental Care initiatives.
You’ll build, enhance and support data pipelines and data products across our existing ecosystem, ensuring reliable, secure and high‑quality data for analytics and reporting. You’ll also play an important role in the delivery of our data platform transformation, helping create a modern data ecosystem to support the evolving needs of our colleagues, patients and partners. Working closely with data, technology and business stakeholders, you’ll translate data needs into effective engineering solutions that make a real impact.
Responsibilities
Collaboration & Relationships
Hybrid role based in Bristol or London, with required travel to the office for meetings and team days
The Role
We’re looking for someone who is passionate about data and excited to help grow our Data Engineering capability and the way we use data and analytics at Bupa Dental Care (BDC). As a Data Engineer, you’ll be a key member of the team, contributing to the delivery of priority Bupa Dental Care initiatives.
You’ll build, enhance and support data pipelines and data products across our existing ecosystem, ensuring reliable, secure and high‑quality data for analytics and reporting. You’ll also play an important role in the delivery of our data platform transformation, helping create a modern data ecosystem to support the evolving needs of our colleagues, patients and partners. Working closely with data, technology and business stakeholders, you’ll translate data needs into effective engineering solutions that make a real impact.
Responsibilities
Collaboration & Relationships
- Work with BDC Tech and Data teams to build a seamless, well‑integrated data ecosystem aligned to BDC’s needs, quality standards and service commitments.
- Collaborate with colleagues across Data, Tech and the business to understand requirements, translate them into effective engineering solutions, and deliver outcomes.
- Proactively build productive relationships with Data, Tech and business stakeholders.
- Play a key role within the Data Engineering team shaping, building and maintaining modern data engineering solutions in healthcare.
- Take end‑to‑end ownership of data engineering projects - from design through build, test, release and support.
- Operate in an agile environment, actively contributing to sprint planning, estimation, stand‑ups, reviews and retrospectives.
- Contribute to the evolution of our data engineering approach through practical improvements and delivery learnings.
- Shape our data and analytics strategy and roadmap by sharing ideas grounded in engineering experience.
- Help implement platform patterns and ways of working that improve scalability, maintainability and delivery speed.
- Promote good engineering practices (trusted datasets, clear definitions, reproducible pipelines, documentation).
- Develop and maintain cloud‑based data infrastructure (data lakes, warehouses, processing frameworks).
- Build robust ingestion and transformation processes ensuring quality, consistency, lineage and security.
- Implement reliable, repeatable, secure and observable orchestration for automated workflows.
- Apply security‑first practices to protect sensitive patient information.
- Monitor pipelines and data products; troubleshoot, fix issues, and help prevent incidents.
- Drive continuous platform improvement (e.g., reduce run costs, improve reliability, simplify onboarding and access).
- Write maintainable, well‑tested code and documentation aligned to agreed engineering standards and best practices.
- Experience as a Data Engineer, having demonstrated an ability to drive value with customer data in a Health, retail or a customer centric business
- Strategic and forward-thinking approach to data engineering, with the ability to envision and advocate for long-term, scalable solutions. Balances this with a pragmatic mindset, recognising when short-term, fit-for-purpose implementations are appropriate to meet immediate business needs.
The benefits here are industry-leading, and we’ll be able to tell you more about them in the process (or jump to the benefits and rewards page on our careers site for a flavour). But here’s a snapshot:
- 25 days holiday, plus the option to buy more.
- Discounts in over 7,000 retailers, discounted gym membership and discounted dental insurance (of course).
- Health Trust - our bespoke employee private healthcare plan, providing healthcare cover with no medical underwriting for colleagues and their families.
- Access to remote GP and nurse services, physiotherapy, and mental health support.
- MyHealthcare Allowance, an annual allowance which is redeemable against a menu of Bupa healthcare products.
- Early access to your earned wages through Wagestream.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- And many more, just ask…
To find out more about working with us, find us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.
Bupa takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We are committed to ensuring you are treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.
Bupa Dental Care is an equal opportunities employer.
Bupa Dental Care is an equal opportunities employer.