Data Engineer NHS Counter Fraud Authority

NHS Counter Fraud Authority; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

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.

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 for an informal chat if you have any questions regarding the role. Interviews will be held online on 12.05.25. If a candidate is suitable for the role, a second face-to-face interview will be arranged.

Please note that previous applicants are not eligible to reapply.

Our new team is 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 maximize the preventative impact of proactive counter fraud analysis. We will combine this with our range of counter fraud and domain expertise to maximize 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 learning to tackle some of the highest areas of fraud risk to the NHS and ultimately protect public funds for patient care.

We have offices based in Coventry and Newcastle. The NHSCFA values and respects the diversity of its employees and aims to recruit a workforce that 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 license 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.

1. Develop and maintain robust, efficient, secure, and reliable data pipelines using Azure technologies including Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, Databricks, and Lakehouses.
2. Build data pipelines that clean, transform, and present granular and aggregate data from disparate sources.
3. Design, build, test, automate, and maintain architectures and processing workflows for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems which are scalable.
4. Plan, develop, and evaluate methods and processes for gathering, extracting, transforming, and cleaning data and information.
5. 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.

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This advert closes on Thursday 1 May 2025.