Data Analyst (Palantir) - Permanent - London/Leeds, UK

Programme Context - Data Platforms & Data Engineering

This programme focuses on delivering enterprise-scale data platforms and analytics capabilities, leveraging Palantir Foundry as a core environment for data integration, modelling, and analytics.

The initiative brings together complex clinical, operational, and population-level datasets to support national reporting, service planning, and decision-making. Delivery is executed via multiple agile teams across discovery, Alpha, beta, and live phases, within a highly regulated environment aligned to NHS England data governance and security standards.

Role Overview

As a Data Analyst - Palantir Data Platform, you will operate in a senior delivery capacity, providing authoritative analysis across multiple data domains and workstreams.

You will collaborate closely with product managers, data engineers, clinicians, and NHS stakeholders to define analytical requirements, ensure trusted data definitions, and deliver accurate, explainable insights aligned with NHS priorities.

This role also plays a key part in governance and assurance by supporting evidence-based decision-making across the programme.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership across Palantir-enabled analytics workstreams, ensuring consistent and reliable outputs

• Translate business questions into clear analytical requirements, KPIs, and data definitions

• Define and assure metrics, ensuring consistent usage across domains and teams

• Analyse complex datasets to generate actionable insights for clinical and operational stakeholders

• Support data quality validation, reconciliation, and interpretability standards

• Collaborate with data engineers and architects to align analytical needs with data models and transformations

• Contribute to governance artefacts such as data dictionaries, lineage, and documentation

• Lead validation of analytical outputs (logic, completeness, timeliness)

• Identify analytical risks and provide mitigation strategies

• Work within Agile environments, supporting backlog refinement and delivery via tools like Jira

• Communicate insights and analytical concepts effectively to non-technical stakeholders

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a Data Analyst in complex data or digital programmes (preferably in healthcare or regulated sectors)

• Strong expertise in defining KPIs, metrics, and analytical logic

• Deep understanding of end-to-end data life cycle and its impact on analytics

• Experience with Palantir Foundry or similar analytics platforms

• Experience within UK public sector environments with knowledge of governance and compliance

• Agile delivery experience, including working with Jira or similar tools

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Experience in population health, operational analytics, or service performance

• Exposure to federated or domain-driven data models

• Experience with AWS-based data platforms

• Familiarity with Databricks environments

• Understanding of NHS data standards and interoperability (eg, FHIR)

• Relevant certifications (eg, Data Analytics, CBAP, PMI-PBA)