Job overview
Barts Health NHS Trust is recruiting a Data Warehouse Engineer to help develop, implement and support the PharosAI project through the Barts Health Data Platform.
The successful candidate will have:
• Extensive experience of working in the field of informatics within the NHS, academia or in the private sector.
• Good, applied statistics skills; good scripting and programming skills
• Data science skills, working with both NHS and academic professionals
PharosAI () is a DSIT funded project that unites large-scale multimodal cancer datasets with AI models through a highly-secure, trusted, federated platform, to offer state-of-the-art AI tooling for use by pharma/biotech/life-sciences. The Barts Health Data Platform () - BHDP - will be one of the sites that will be federated within PharosAI. The BHDP has been supported by Barts Charity as part of a broader precision medicine programme that is being delivered in partnership with Barts Life Science. The goal is to unleash the full research potential of NHS patient data while ensuring it is accessed responsibly, legally and ethically – with patient engagement from the outset.
Main duties of the job
The BHDP will comply with necessary security and governance requirements, whilst having a high performing function researchers can apply to access data to improve research and health outcomes. The Data Engineer will work with the Data Warehouse Manager to design and develop the core data products to be hosted in this environment. This will require an excellent understanding of the data from Electronic Health Records as well as methods for and underlying principles of data transformations, data cleaning and data augmentation. As well as an understanding of standard ontologies such as OMOP and SNOMED.
By offering an integrated data access service to hospital data, BHDP will be at the forefront of data-led innovation, developing its role as a key player in the life sciences economy and in turn, improve patient care and experience.
By offering an integrated data access service, BHDP will be at the forefront of data-led innovation, developing its role as a key player in the life sciences economy and improve patient care and experience.
A dedicated information governance and research management team will ensure all projects using our data access service will follow GDPR and other legal and ethical responsibilities, protecting patient and public rights to confidentiality, fairness and equity.
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To arrange an information discussion about this role please contact Ben Eaton, Precision Medicine Data Warehouse Manager, email:
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
1. Significant experience of data transformations.
2. Experience with complex biomedical data.
Desirable criteria
3. Experience with information governance.
Skills
Essential criteria
4. Programming skills in SQL and python.
5. Presentation of specialist material to a range of audiences.
Desirable criteria
6. Product development skills, project planning, budgeting, devops.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
7. Knowledge of the broader health data science environment and challenges.
Desirable criteria
8. Up to date knowledge of health data analysis/developments and related organisational challenges.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
9. Educated to masters level or equivalent experience.
Other
Essential criteria
10. Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings.