Data Engineer (nhs) - 12 Month FTC

We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our growing data engineering team at Our Future Health. The Data Engineer will bring an in-depth knowledge of NHS data and data solutions to help solve some of the key challenges around a programme of work at industrial scale with global significance.

Our data engineers work with our participant data (including various health records from the NHS, genetic data, Our Future Health’s own questionnaires) and build pipelines and systems to process it, control quality and create data releases for researchers. You’ll take a lead on developing specific pipelines related to questionnaire and physical measurements data.

Our Future Health will be the UK’s largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to detect, prevent, and treat diseases. We are a charity, supported by the UK Government, in partnership with charities and industry. We work closely with the NHS and with public authorities across all nations and regions of the UK.

What you’ll be doing:

Your key responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Support the design and building of data pipelines from data providers to our primary data store and trusted research environment, using languages such as Python.
• Produce logic for data transformation steps as code, which meets the requirements for our end users and builds well curated, accessible, and quality controlled data for analysis.
• Keep abreast of best practice in data engineering across industry, research and Government and facilitating the adoption of standards.
• Working with researchers to understand the data requirements and work with them to deliver the data needed for their projects.
• Communicate to and between technical and non-technical stakeholders as well as facilitate discussions within a multidisciplinary team including scientists, software engineers, product managers and other data engineers.