Role: Senior Data Engineer (Healthcare / OMOP)
Contract: 3 months (initial)
Location: Mainly Remote (London Ooffice meet-up twice per month)
Start: ASAP
Overview
We’re hiring a hands‑on Senior Data Engineer to support the build and delivery of a healthcare data product in a fast‑moving, tech‑for‑good startup environment.
This role is fully hands‑on and requires someone comfortable working with sensitive, regulated data, owning problems end‑to‑end, and operating without heavy structure or support.
You’ll work closely with product and stakeholders to translate user requirements into scalable data solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build data models and pipelines for healthcare datasets
- Work with sensitive data, ensuring compliance with data privacy and security standards
- Implement and maintain data linkage, access, and transformation processes
- Apply anonymisation techniques (e.g. k‑anonymity) where required
- Translate user and product requirements into data solutions
- Contribute to the development of data products used by end users
- Work closely with stakeholders in a startup environment, iterating quickly and pragmatically
Key Requirements
- Strong experience working with healthcare or highly regulated data
- Hands‑on expertise with Python and SQL
- Experience in data modelling and data warehousing
- Understanding of OMOP / common data models / OHDSI (or similar healthcare data standards)
- Experience with data access, linkage, and data treatment processes
- Knowledge of data privacy and anonymisation techniques (e.g. k‑anonymity)
- Strong communication skills and ability to work closely with non‑technical stakeholders
Ideal Profile
- Experience working in startup or scale‑up environments
- Comfortable with ambiguity and working without a "safety net"
- Strong problem‑solving mindset and ability to challenge requirements constructively
- Experience building end‑to‑end data products
Additional Information
- Fully remote, with bi‑weekly meet‑ups in London
- Immediate start preferred
- Opportunity to work on a high‑impact, tech‑for‑good product with real‑world outcomes
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