Overview
Led by a world‑class faculty of scientists, technologists, policy makers, economists and entrepreneurs, the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) aims to develop and deploy commercially sustainable solutions to solve some of humanity's most enduring challenges. Our work is guided by four Humane Endeavours: Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology; Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture; Climate Change & Managing Atmospheric CO2; and Artificial Intelligence & Robotics.
Set for completion in 2027, the EIT Campus in Littlemore will include more than 300,000 sq ft of research laboratories, educational and gathering spaces. Fueled by growing ambition and the strength of Oxford's science ecosystem, EIT is expanding its footprint to a 2 million sq ft campus across the western part of the Oxford Science Park, designed by Foster + Partners led by Lord Norman Foster. This will become a transformative workplace for up to 7,000 people, with autonomous laboratories, purpose‑built laboratories—including a plant sciences building—and dynamic spaces to spark interdisciplinary collaboration.
The Pathogen Mission highlights EIT's transformative approach, using Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) and Oracle's cloud technology to create a global pathogen metagenomics system. This initiative aims to improve diagnostics, provide early epidemic warnings, and guide treatments by profiling antimicrobial resistance. The goal is to deliver certified diagnostic tools for widespread use in labs, hospitals, and public health.
EIT Oxford fosters a culture of collaboration, innovation, and resilience, valuing diverse expertise to drive sustainable solutions to humanity's enduring challenges.
Data Architect – EIT Pathogen Programme
Data Architect to support the EIT Pathogen Programme.
In this role you will design and implement cutting‑edge data architectures to support the pathogen mission. You will collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into robust data models and architectures.
You will shape the future of our data platform, collaborate with platform and product teams to deliver analytical and AI products, define data standards, data models and best practices to ensure the integrity, security and accessibility of our data assets, and optimise data processes and workflows.
Key Responsibilities
* Understand and manage the data requirements by working with stakeholders to analyse requirements and identify those of architectural significance.
* Formulate the data model and standards to be used by the data platform to support interoperability and federation for pathogen monitoring and research.
* Communicate the data architecture to various stakeholder groups within EIT.
* Develop data architectures—including data flows, lifecycle, security, durability—and apply consistent documentation standards and architecture methods.
* Support developers and ensure they can realise the data architecture through mentoring and direct involvement.
* Produce architecture artifacts and present the work through architecture governance.
* Verify implementations and ensure the delivered systems are consistent with the agreed architecture and meet requirements.
* Define architecture data standards that ensure compliance (including Medical Device Accreditation where relevant).
* Ensure squads have a set of standard patterns, guidance and technical standards to help them deliver.
* Document and assure solutions through defined architecture governance processes.
Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience
* Knowledge and experience of architecting and delivering modern data platform standards, tools and patterns, including data lakes, lakehouses, iceberg, and data mesh.
* Experience architecting, building and delivering modern data platforms at scale.
* Familiarity with TOGAF and other enterprise architecture frameworks.
* Experience and knowledge of data governance, data quality and data cataloguing.
* Knowledge of master, metadata and reference data management.
* Understanding of Agile working practices and sprint‑based methodology.
* Capability of actively contributing to knowledge sharing.
Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience
* Knowledge of genomics.
* Experience with cloud‑based data platforms, preferably Oracle OCI or equivalent AWS and Azure services.
* Understanding of federation standards for genomics (GA4GH).
* Understanding of data standards for pathogen data interoperability (PHA4GE).
* Experience architecting data standards for research environments.
* Experience with healthcare clinical data and associated standards OMOP, SNOMED.
Key Attributes
* Collaboration.
* Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment.
* Willingness to learn and cross‑train/up‑skill in new technology.
* Willingness to be hands‑on exploring new technology or developing POCs.
Benefits
* Competitive Salary.
* Enhanced holiday pay.
* Pension.
* Life Assurance.
* Income Protection.
* Private Medical Insurance.
* Hospital Cash Plan.
* Therapy Services.
* Perk Box.
* Electricity Car Scheme.
Why Work for EIT
At the Ellison Institute, we believe a collaborative, inclusive team is key to our success. We are building a supportive environment where creative risks are encouraged, and everyone feels heard. Valuing emotional intelligence, empathy, respect and resilience, we encourage people to be curious and to have a shared commitment to excellence. Join us and make an impact!
Terms of Appointment
You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. You will live in or within easy commuting distance of Oxford. During peak periods, some longer hours may be required and some working across multiple time zones due to the global nature of the programme.
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