Job Vacancy Software Developer - UK Health Security Agency - SEO

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