Senior Infrastructure Engineer: Sponsorship Available

Barts Health NHS Trust

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity to be involved at the cutting edge of oncology AI research and innovation in East London.

This role is for a talented Principal Data Scientist to lead the data science workstream of PharosAI at Barts Health. They will join a growing team which is focused on AI and reproducible applications of healthcare data to deliver innovative health care products and services to the front line. Barts Health has been awarded £4.3m as part of £18.9m in funding from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology to support the PharosAI programme by providing expertise in AI development and ensuring that data from the Barts Health Data Platformas well as Barts’ local tissue biobanks informs the building of new AI models. These datasets will allow commercial and academic researchers to interrogate, develop and validate AI algorithms for the benefit of people in North East London, the UK and beyond.

There is a requirement for the successful candidate to additionally cover the Barts Life Sciences Lead Data Scientist role as maternity cover. This will involve providing line-management to the existing highly-competent and experienced Data Science team until May 2026, when the incumbent Lead Data Scientist returns from maternity leave. At this point, the successful candidate will focus exclusively on PharosAI.

Interview date: 4th September 2025

 

Main duties of the job

As part of Barts Life Sciences, the post holder will have access to data and computation power, knowledge and innovation to lead the project’s development and genuinely impact patient care. We have a close network of clinical teams across the Trust, research groups at Queen Mary University of London and engaged patient groups to priorities and spread project outputs.

As well as specialist technical knowledge, this role requires at least 3 years’ experience of managing technical (particularly data science) teams, budget management, and working collaboratively with both academic and industry partners. Experience of digital product development, including identification and management of intellectual property, regulatory requirements and commercialisation is also essential. Detailed requirements are set out in the Person Specification for this role.

Barts Life Sciences is our programme for using research, innovation and technologies to transform health and care services. This covers a broad range of activities from discovery science, product development and testing, and the application of new technology in a healthcare setting.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of developing and implementing research and technical policies that have an impact on other disciplines and research programmes
  • Significant experience establishing and leading impactful complex data science projects with multiple stakeholders (academic and industry) within a hospital context
  • Experience of digital product development, including identification and management of intellectual property and commercialisation

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge and experience of regulations appropriate to use of patient data in research

Communication

Essential

  • Experience of presenting research findings to conferences or other large groups

Qualifications

Essential

  • QualificationsA PhD or equivalent professional experience in a field with relevance to data science Essential 2

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to plan and undertake detailed workplans from high-level research ideas, within time- and budget- constraints
  • Experience managing, motivating and training technical and non-technical staff

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 17 August 2025

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