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University of Bristol - School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience · 15 hours ago

Senior Research Data Engineer

Bristol, CT

Contract

Hybrid

Senior Level

£50K/yr - £58K/yr

The University of Bristol's School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience is seeking a Senior Research Data Engineer for the BRIDE Hub, a collaboration aimed at transforming health outcomes through innovative data solutions. The role involves leading technical development, designing data infrastructure, and collaborating with various partners to ensure high-quality data delivery for research.

Higher Education

Responsibilities

Designing and implementing secure, scalable data infrastructure to integrate clinical and research data within a hospital system

Building and maintaining data pipelines (ETL/ELT) to ingest data from clinical systems (electronic patient records, pathology, imaging, genomics, administrative) into research-ready datasets

Mapping and harmonising legacy data sources, applying NHS and international standards such as OMOP, SNOMED-CT, and HL7 FHIR for interoperability

Applying FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) to all research datasets, including metadata and provenance tracking

Developing tools and dashboards for monitoring data quality, lineage, and pipeline performance

Collaborating with clinicians, academics, and research leads to understand data requirements for studies, trials, and innovation projects

Providing technical leadership, mentoring junior engineers and analysts, fostering skills development

Qualification

Data EngineeringPythonSQLSparkClinical Data ExperienceData Pipelines (ETL/ELT)Interoperability StandardsTechnical LeadershipCollaborationMentoring

Required

You have significant experience of working in a computationally based setting or possess a postgraduate qualification in a computationally-based field

You have excellent knowledge of Python, SQL, Spark or equivalent tools

You have experience of working with clinical data and possibly Secure Data Environments

You enjoy working with multiple institutions to solve complex problems