Data Engineer (Geospatial & Data Pipelines) - NHS

Data Engineer (Geospatial & Data Pipelines) – NHS – Remote – £450/day (Inside IR35) – 6-Month Contract

We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer to support NHS data pipelines and geospatial processing. This fully remote, 6-month contract focuses on building robust, validated datasets to enable local, regional, and national insight.

The Role

You’ll design, build, and maintain data pipelines that transform raw data into consistent, high-quality outputs. Working closely with analysts and stakeholders, you will ensure datasets are accurate, well-documented, and geospatially contextualised.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish import/export patterns, handle data extracts, schema discovery, incremental loads, and multiple source instances.

• Build transformation-heavy pipelines, including profiling, cleansing, standardisation, conformance, and publishing.

• Apply advanced SQL for joins, deduplication, anomaly detection, profiling, and performance tuning.

• Develop Python scripts for automation, parsing, rules engines, and data quality checks using packages like Pandas, Polars, scikit-learn, and matplotlib.

• Work with modern data tooling (Spark, Azure Data Factory, or code equivalents).

• Handle geospatial data, including vector, raster, GeoJSON, and shapefiles, applying coordinate reference systems and spatial analysis workflows.

• Aggregate and translate local/regional geospatial insights into national or regional datasets.

• Work with public datasets, including ONS products such as census boundaries, geographic lookups, deprivation indices, and mid-year population estimates.

• Implement rules for data completeness, validity, and consistency, including exception handling.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience as a Data Engineer building robust, transformation-heavy pipelines.

• Advanced SQL and Python skills for data processing and automation.

• Experience with geospatial data and public datasets (ONS).

• Familiarity with modern data tooling or equivalent coding solutions.

• Ability to interpret and apply geographical context in pipelines.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Must hold or be eligible for BPSS clearance.

Desirable

• Experience with NHS or public-sector datasets.

• Knowledge of geospatial data modelling and analytical workflows.

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

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