Location: London
As a Developer in the Data & Surveillance Services Division, you’ll help build and support the digital systems that underpin UKHSA’s clinical, laboratory and scientific services, including national surveillance and bioinformatics platforms.
Your work will directly enable:
- Disease surveillance and monitoring
- Laboratory workflows and data pipelines
- Whole‑genome sequencing for pathogens of concern
About the team
The Digital & Data Directorate provides the platforms, tools and services that allow UKHSA to collect, analyse and share high‑quality health data securely.
Within this, Data & Surveillance Services:
- Designs and maintains interoperable, secure systems
- Works closely with scientists, clinicians and researchers
- Supports high‑performance computing, cloud platforms and data pipelines
What you’ll be doing
As a Developer, you’ll work across the full software lifecycle, including:
Software development & integration
- Design, build and maintain secure software services and database integrations
- Develop applications for on‑premise, HPC and cloud platforms (AWS / Azure)
- Build interfaces and contribute to complex system integrations
- Write and optimise SQL and PL/SQL for data processing and extraction
Quality, security & resilience
- Embed security‑by‑design principles into all solutions
- Design, test and document high‑quality code using modern practices
- Diagnose and resolve technical issues using structured testing and documentation
- Ensure systems meet availability, performance and data‑quality requirements
Collaboration & improvement
- Work directly with researchers to define user stories and requirements
- Support automation and more resilient infrastructure
- Contribute to standards, policies and best practice across the division
- Use modern development workflows, CI/CD and version control
- Support migrations to new architectures where required
Who this role is for
This role could be a great fit if you:
- Enjoy working on data‑intensive, mission‑critical systems
- Have experience building complex software used by real users
- Care about security, resilience and data quality
- Like collaborating closely with non‑technical specialists
- Want your work to contribute to national health protection
Essential experience
You’ll need strong experience in:
- Designing and delivering large, complex software solutions
- Microsoft development technologies (e.g. .NET / Visual Studio)
- C# (plus working knowledge of Python)
- SQL / MS SQL Server / Transact‑SQL
- Containerised deployment and cloud‑native development
- Git and CI/CD tooling (e.g. GitHub Actions or similar)
- IIS and web application deployment
- Secure coding and change control practices
A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience is required.
Interested?
This post gives you the overview.
Click through to the full Civil Service / UKHSA job advert to see complete details and apply.
