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Data Solution Designer
Location: Staines (TW18 3DZ) or Manchester (M50 3SP)
Flexible / Hybrid working options: up to 3–4 days WFH
Permanent – Full time: 37.5 hours
Salary: £69,200 – £82,800 (negotiable depending on experience)
Bonus: 10% Management Bonus Scheme
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. A key enabler of our strategy is consolidating data from different sources to provide a single, reliable, and consistent source of data (i.e., reusable datasets) to business teams.
The Data Solutions Designer will work across Bupa to understand and translate business requirements into solutions that are fully aligned with organisational, architectural, and technology strategies. You will support delivery to ensure solutions are implemented correctly. As a data subject matter expert, you will drive best practice, educate Technology and business colleagues on data technologies and delivery, and contribute to Bupa’s data strategy.
You will be part of an agile, multi-disciplinary squad enabling and amplifying value across Bupa. This role gives you the opportunity to engage with business teams and develop solution designs for creating valuable, reusable domain-specific datasets that enable democratisation of our data to a wider audience.
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, best-in-class data solutions.
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.
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, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
Annual performance-based bonus
Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
Various other benefits and online discounts
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. We encourage all our people to “Be you at Bupa”, champion diversity, and represent the communities and customers we serve. We especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer, meaning 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 our recruitment process to anyone who needs them.
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