Data Warehouse Engineer: Sponsorship Available

Barts Health NHS Trust

Job Summary

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:o 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 professionalsPharosA 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.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience of data transformations.
  • Experience with complex biomedical data.

Desirable

  • Experience with information governance.

Skills

Essential

  • Programming skills in SQL and python.
  • Presentation of specialist material to a range of audiences.

Desirable

  • Product development skills, project planning, budgeting, devops.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of the broader health data science environment and challenges.

Desirable

  • Up to date knowledge of health data analysis/developments and related organisational challenges.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to masters level or equivalent experience.

Other

Essential

  • Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings.

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: 19 June 2025

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