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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Engineer - **Company:** NHS Scotland - **Location:** UK - **Salary:** £52,845.0 - £61,466.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Microsoft Azure, Google Chrome, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Systems, Data Warehousing, Dimensional Modeling, Web Browsers, Python (Programming Language), Power BI, SQL Databases, Systems Integration, Tableau (Software), Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Software Version Control, Data Pipelines, Databricks - **Published:** August 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/DecideInternalExternal/DecideInternalExternal?JobId=265606 ## About the Role We are looking for someone who can self-lead and take technical ownership. You should be comfortable taking a problem, understanding what is needed, working out a sensible approach and taking it through to delivery without needing every step mapped out for you. Experience in some of the following would be useful: * Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake or similar platforms * Power BI and semantic modelling * Data engineering and ELT * Lakehouse or data warehouse architecture * Dimensional modelling * SQL and Python * APIs and system integration * Version control, testing and CI/CD * Data governance, security and privacy Whilst desirable, you do not need NHS experience and you do not need to tick every box. We would much rather find someone who understands data engineering, learns quickly, thinks independently and wants to help us build something substantial. ## Description * Help design and build NHS Grampian's Microsoft Fabric data estate * Develop and improve data ingestion, transformation and ELT pipelines * Build lakehouse, warehouse and reusable data models * Support the migration from Tableau to Power BI * Develop trusted semantic models and reusable data products * Integrate data from clinical, operational and corporate systems * Improve automation, testing, deployment, monitoring and documentation * Help embed good approaches to governance, lineage, security and access control * Work with analysts, clinicians and service leaders to turn real problems into practical data solutions, * A genuine opportunity to help shape a major new NHS data platform * Flexible and hybrid working * Strong support for professional development and research * Close links with the University of Aberdeen and Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science * Work with a broad range of health data that directly supports patient care, services and population health There is a lot to build, a lot to improve and a wee bit to untangle. 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