Data Engineer
Hybrid
Coventry, United Kingdom
Freelance
04-03-2025
Job Specifications
Job Summary
The NHS Counter Fraud Authority is the national body responsible for all matters relating to the prevention, detection and investigation of economic crime across the NHS. Further information about our work and annual plan for delivering this is available on our website.
As a Data Engineer you will have direct oversight and responsibility for the development implementation review and establishment of data and techniques used in the Advanced Data Analytics Portfolio (DAP). You will collaborate with project managers, data scientists, counter fraud experts, stakeholders, and senior management across the NHSCFA and our wider stakeholders. The primary responsibilities will include developing, evaluating, maintaining, and managing data pipelines, processing, preparing data suitable for analysis, and developing and maintaining data models. You will support the design of analytical services, products, and models that meet the needs of NHSCFA, and guide, develop, document, and maintain data pipelines and storage solutions used in the analytics environment, ensuring that the infrastructure and methods are secure, optimized, and scalable within the Azure cloud computing environment.
The post holder will be required to have a NPPV3.
This is a Fixed Term contract until 31st March 2026
Potential applicants can contact Naga Balam at naga.balam@nhscfa.gov.uk for an informal chat if you have any questions regarding the role. Interviews will be held on 17/03/25
Main duties of the job
Our new team are embarking on a piece of work to monitor data to identify and respond to patterns indicative of potential fraud. This will support our current work that reduces the likelihood of fraud occurring. We will bring in data science capabilities to be deployed in counter fraud activity and work closely with partners across health and government to further maximise the preventative impact of proactive counter fraud analysis. We will combine this with our range of counter fraud and domain expertise to maximise our impact using your knowledge, experience, and passion for your chosen field. At the core will be the development and use of appropriate analytical techniques that include advanced analytics and machine leaning to tackle some of the highest areas of fraud risk to the NHS and ultimately protect public funds for patient care.
About Us
We have offices based in Coventry and Newcastle. The NHSCFA values and respects the diversity of its employees and aims to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities. We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including an invitation to the first stage of the selection process and consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability. If you are applying to undertake this role on a secondment basis you should have agreement to being released from your current role in principle, prior to submitting an application form. When you apply for this role, you will be redirected to our recruitment system TRAC. The NHSCFA does not hold a sponsor licence in respect of skilled worker visas and so is unable to employ candidates requiring sponsorship.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the advertised closing date should we receive a significant number of applications.
Date posted
19 February 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£53,755 to £60,504 a year
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time, Home or remote working
Reference number
076-ATH-CFA029-B
Job locations
NHSCFA, Cheylesmore House,
Coventry
CV1 2WT
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Develop and maintain robust, efficient, secure, and reliable data pipelines using azure technologies including Fabric, Azure data factory, Synapse analytics, databricks and Lakehouses.
Build data pipelines that clean, transform, and present granular and aggregate data from disparate sources.
Design, build, test, automate, and maintain architectures and processing workflows for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems which are scalable.
Plan, develop and evaluate methods and processes for gathering, extracting, transforming, and cleaning data and information.
To undertake development of the data warehouse, including overall design, technical development and documentation of the data warehouse, infrastructure and ETL solutions covering multiple sources of data, working alongside NHSCFA specialists and external data suppliers.
Responsibilities
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see full Job Description and Person Specification
Develop and maintain robust, efficient, secure, and reliable data pipelines using azure technologies including Fabric, Azure data factory, Synapse analytics, databricks and Lakehouses.
Build data pipelines that clean, transform, and present granular and aggregate data from disparate sources.
Design, build, test, automate, and maintain architectures and processing workflows for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems which are scalable.
Plan, develop and evaluate methods and processes for gathering, extracting, transforming, and cleaning data and information.
To undertake development of the data warehouse, including overall design, technical development and documentation of the data warehouse, infrastructure and ETL solutions covering multiple sources of data, working alongside NHSCFA specialists and external data suppliers.
Please See Full Job Description And Person Specification
Person Specification
Knowledge And Experience Essential
Practical application expertise of managing data engineering projects and processes including data wrangling methods, models, data structures, and data formats such as JSON, XML and XSD.
Machine learning for engineering practices, such as meta driven intelligent ETL and pipeline processes.
Strong skills in relevant programming languages, frameworks, and platforms including, SQL, Python, Spark, R etc.
A strong track record of achievement in data engineering.
Experience/understanding of data lifecycle management frameworks and project management methodology.
Practical implementation of CI/CD in Azure DevOps.
Experience in technologies relating to Data Science, for example: statistical analysis, machine learning, or natural language processing.
Experience with relational SQL and databases.
Experience with Azure tech stack such as Fabric, Data factory, Synapse Analytics, Databricks and Lakehouses.
Experience in building data engineering projects in Fabric.
Knowledge of data warehousing and modelling concepts such as CDC/SCD.
Ability to troubleshoot and solve numerical and technical problems.
Extensive experience within a complex and demanding env...
About the Company
The NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) is the organisation which has been tasked to lead the fight against fraud, bribery & corruption in the NHS. We ask all staff, NHS suppliers and the public to be vigilant not only in the workplace but also at home, as Fraud is becoming a crime of choice by many criminals. If you suspect a case of NHS Fraud we ask you remember this phrase; Spot it Report it Together we stop it Call our Crimestoppers powered number 0800 028 4060 Or use our online reporting tool cfa.nhs.uk/reportfra... Know more
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