Data Solution Designer

Data Solution Designer

**Job Description**:
**Data Solution Designer**

**Staines TW18 3DZ or Manchester M50 3SP**

**Flexible / Hybrid working options (i.e up to 3/4 days WFH)**

**12 Months Fixed Term Contract - Full time 37.5hours**

**£69,200 - £82,800 (Neg depending on experience)**

**We make health happen**

At Bupa our vision is to become the most customer-centric healthcare company.

We're passionate about data and recognise the positive impact it can have on the lives of our customers, patients, residents and colleagues. You will join the Chief Data & Analytics Office (CDAO) in the BGIUK Market Unit, working closely with UK Insurance, Bupa Global, Health Services, Bupa Dental Care and Care Services Business Units (BU).

A key enabler of our strategy is consolidating data from different sources to provide a single, reliable consistent source of data (i.e. reusable datasets) to business teams.

You will be working as part of an agile multi-disciplinary squad enabling and amplifying value generated from across Bupa. This role gives you the opportunity to engage with business teams across Bupa and develop the solution designs for creating the valuable, re-usable domain-specific datasets that enable democratisation of our data to a wider audience.

**How you'll help us make health happen**:

- Align solution designs with Bupa's enterprise data strategy and future vision.
- Lead data modelling workshops to define entities and relationships.
- Build consensus across Bupa's businesses and teams
- Develop data models in collaboration tools (e.g. Ellie.ai) for business stakeholders to review and approve
- Turn business ideas into process outcomes and prototypes that support the data strategy.
- Engage stakeholders to assess guardrails and help create data contracts.
- Work with data stewards and architects to boost data literacy and ensure governance.
- Maintain solution design documentation.
- Present designs for design authority & governance approval.
- Guide delivery teams to maintain solution quality.
- Manage requirements and drive results using collaborative and best-in-class data solutions.

**Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role**:
Essential:

- Experience in Data Engineering Design (ETL, ELT), and modelling approaches such as Data Vault, Inmon, and Kimball.
- Extensive experience in common conceptual data models and logical data modelling across enterprise domains, including presenting, reviewing and approvals.
- Technical exposure to MS Azure Data Stack - Data Factory, Data Lake Storage, Azure SQL, Azure ML, Power BI.
- Strong understanding of Snowflake architecture, including DevOps integration and CI/CD practices.
- Foundational knowledge of Azure cloud infrastructure.
- Skilled in stakeholder engagement, including facilitating workshops and translating business context into data models.
- Strong communication skills to liaise with both technical developers and non-technical stakeholders.

**Highly desirable**:

- Ability to align data solutions with organisational data strategy and governance frameworks. Proficiency in collaborative modelling tools such as Ellie.ai and FigJam for workshop facilitation.
- Knowledge of data governance principles including data stewardship, data quality, and compliance guardrails.
- Exposure to emerging data technologies and trends, with a passion for continuous learning.
- Self-driven and motivated individual with a proactive approach to solution design and delivery.
- Experience of data programmes and technologies within enterprise-scale organisations or technology teams.
- Familiarity with data governance concepts including data quality, lineage, lifecycle management, and security.

**Benefits**

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

- 25 days holiday per year, pro rata to your contract.
- Access to a range of services to support your physical and mental wellbeing
- Fixed term benefits allowance
- Access to our confidential employee assistance programme
- Workplace pension
- Online discounts covering your everyday shopping, entertainment, eating out and more.

**Why Bupa?**

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of o