Data Engineer - Contract
Remote
Inside IR35
5 Month Contract
Must have:
NHS experience
Geospatial experience
Essential Skills
*Establish import/export patterns, including handling data extracts, schema discovery, incremental loads, and multiple source instances
*Expertise in data-transformation-heavy pipelines: profiling, cleansing, standardisation, conformance, and publishing
*Advanced SQL, including profiling, joins/merges, deduplication, anomaly detection, and performance tuning
*Python scripting for automation, parsing, rules engines, anddata-quality checks; ability to write maintainable code *Experience with Python packages such as Pandas/Polars, scikit-learn, matplotlib

*Experience with modern data tooling (e.g., Spark, cloud data-integration tooling) or the ability to implement equivalent functionality in code
*Proven experience with geospatial data, including vector/raster formats, GeoJSON, shapefiles, CRS handling, and spatial-analysis workflows
*Ability to interpret and apply geographical context in pipelines, including aggregating or translating local/regional geospatial insights into broader-level datasets
*Experience using publicly available official datasets (e.g., census boundaries, geographic lookups, deprivation indices, population estimates)
*Ability to build rules for completeness/validity/consistency, implement exception handling, and support reconciliation flows
*Ability to build versioned, deterministic pipelines with logging, lineage, and traceability
*Comfortable working in a secure environment with least-privilege access and handling sensitive datasets
Soft Skills *Strong communication and collaboration skills
*Ability to work effectively with diverse team members and stakeholders
*Enthusiastic, engaged, and positive attitude
*Proactive, self-driven, comfortable working without step-by-step direction
*Ability to handle ambiguity and changing requirements
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