Data Warehouse Engineer

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 (https://www.pharosai.co.uk/) 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 (https://data.bartshealth.nhs.uk/) - 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To arrange an information discussion about this role please contact Ben Eaton, Precision Medicine Data Warehouse Manager, email: [email protected]

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.