Senior Data Conversion Engineer

at  East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

As one of ESNEFTs new Senior Data Conversion Engineers you will play a crucial role in transitioning data from our legacy healthcare systems to Epic’s Electronic Patient Records (EPR) system. Developing into a specialist in Epic, as well as building an in-depth understanding of our legacy systems data structures; you will need a unique blend of technical expertise, healthcare knowledge, and project management skills.

YOU WILL:

Use your technical SQL skillset to design, develop & execute data conversion plans, including validation testing and troubleshooting processes.
Collaborate with clinical, administrative, and IT teams to analyse & map data from legacy systems to Epic EPR, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
Troubleshoot & resolve data conversion issues, ensuring data integrity & system stability.
Maintain documentation of data conversion processes and protocols.
Ensure compliance with healthcare data standards and regulations
With experience of healthcare data, particularly in an modularised EPR environment, our ideal candidates will have a strong understanding of database structures, data mapping, ETL processes, SQL & HL7. You should be able to demonstrate excellent analytical & problem-solving skills alongside the ability to communicate effectively with both technical & non-technical stakeholders. Project management experience & the ability to multitask are also advantageous.
I nternal applicants currently employed by ESNEFT will be offered on a secondment basis only .
You will responsible for working with Clinical and Business Informaticists, and Implementation specialists to capture data conversion requirements and bespoke change requests for projects
Write ETL (extract, transform, load) SQL scripts and code to ensure the ETL process performs optimally.
Develop business intelligence reports that can be reused.
You will build accessible data for analysis.
You will provide maintenance, configuration and monitoring of the legacy and target system’s data.
Maintenance, configuration and monitoring of integrated data solutions between Trust business systems and applications.
You will be responsible for ensuring developments are aligned to the overall Digital and Logistics and Trust strategies and suggesting alternative approaches where require.
Please note this is a site based role - you will either be based at IP-City Centre or Colchester Hospital.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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