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Data Engineer

Job Posted: 19 days ago

Salary: £ 500 - 500 / Day
Job Type: Contract
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire

Expire in: 8 days

Job Description

Data Engineer - Contract

Rate: £500 per day (inside IR35)
Location: Remote with 1 day per month in Leeds
Duration: Until March 2027 with the possibility of extension
Availability: 2 weeks' notice or less required
Clearance: BPSS check required 

The Role

We are working with a leading healthtech consultancy that is one of the most established names in UK digital health, and employs over 300 staff. The organisation has delivered some of the largest healthtech programmes in the world, with deep roots in NHS transformation alongside work spanning government and public sector clients internationally.

This role sits within one of the NHS's most critical national digital programmes -the infrastructure that connects GP practices, hospital trusts, NHS 111, and pharmacies into a joined-up system, underpinning services including the Electronic Prescription Service, GP Connect, and the national roll-out of Electronic Patient Records.

As the Data Engineer, you will play a hands-on role in designing, building, and maintaining the data pipelines and platform infrastructure that underpin these services. You will work closely with clinical and technical stakeholders to ensure data flows reliably, securely, and at the quality standards demanded by national healthcare programmes.

Skills and Experience 

Required:

Prior experience working within NHS England, UK Health Security Agency, Department of Health and Social Care, or another central government data environment (Essential)
Solid experience with Python, PySpark, Power BI, and AWS
Strong communication skills - able to engage confidently with both technical peers and non-technical clinical or operational stakeholders
Available on 2 week's notice or less 

Desireable:

Experience with Terraform, Fabric, AWS tools such as Firehose, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, Athena and VPC as well as Azure ADLS, Vnet and ADFAzure would be highly desirable. 

Only UK based individuals with the necessary right to work will be considered

To apply, email Philip Boltt at

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