Senior Analytics Engineer (CogStack/OMOP) | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
You will also have the opportunity to develop analytics products, including dashboards and web apps, that sit on top of the diverse data assets in the Trust, that will support use-cases for clinical pathways and Real-World Data.
The role must have a background as a practising clinician, in order to act as a subject matter expert for projects that require understanding of biomedical research concepts, healthcare terms and narratives in relation to clinical ontologies, data generation in clinical pathways, and clinical research.
In this senior technical role, you will report to the AI Centre and GSTT Head of Data Science, and you will co-design the technical roadmap and deliverables in line with wider strategy for health data and data-driven products. Half of this role will be allocated to data discovery and extraction as a service, using data from CogStack, assisted by Language AI, and from the Trust OMOP structured database.The other half of this role will be allocated to product development and improvement. This may include data engineering and improving underlying data infrastructure, as well as producing visualisations, analytics, and applications that can support individual projects, support the overall analytics pipeline, or which serve specific use-cases, and which can be scaled across multiple locations.
You will be responsible for supervising, coordinating, and upskilling more junior technical staff in GSTT and other NHS organisations.
The candidate must have experience with SQL and Python. Frontend (Javascript) and software development experience are highly desirable.
AI, Data & Digital Innovation function
The AI, Data & Digital Innovation team is made up of data science, technology and digital transformation experts, operating as part of the wider King Health partner’s (KHP) group – based in GSTT but working closely as a team with KCH and KCL.
The team regularly contributes to externally funded programmes – including development and implementation of data platforms and AI technologies. This includes the London Artificial Intelligence Centre for Value-Based Healthcare (London AI Centre): a consortium of NHS, academic and industry partners led by Guy’s & St Thomas’, King’s College London and KCH, in partnership with 10 NHS Trusts and 4 universities.
CogStack
CogStack is one of the most advanced healthcare Natural Language Artificial Intelligence platforms in the NHS, developed and owned by its founding Trusts, and trained and validated using NHS data. The CogStack platform is deployed across multiple NHS Trusts in the country and used for unstructured data search, extraction, and both analytics and clinical coding use-cases.
Secure Data Environment (SDE) for London
The London SDE is a data, research, and analytics ecosystem that unites data across the London region.The London AI Centre team is commissioned to deliver the next stage of the London Secure Data Environment (SDE) programme, working on integration of data science and AI technologies, for multi-modal data enrichment and advanced analytics capabilities for the NHS in London.
Essential Criteria- Background as a clinician, with experience of healthcare data and its meaning in clinical pathway and research contexts
- Proficient in SQL and Python, for data engineering and analytics using tabular electronic health record data
- Experience of visualisation using Python packages and/or web development frameworks
- Ability to understand and generate basic statistical analyses
- Experience with reproducible analytic pipelines, good development practices, CI, and tools such as git
- Ability to effectively break down complex analyses for non-technical stakeholders
- A strong desire to create real-world positive impacts for patients and the NHS
- A strong desire to develop impactful analytical products that can accelerate the use of data for research, patient care, and life sciences
- Experience of frontend development, preferably using Javascript
- Experience working with Elastic databases
- Experience with relational SQL databases such as Postgres
- Experience working with Linux server environments
- Experience of software engineering
- Experience working with natural language processing pipelines, including for entity extraction from unstructured medical records.
- Experience working with Real-World Data, EHR, or OMOP databases
The Senior Analytics Engineer is a senior technical role that will:
- Use clinical knowledge and understanding of health data to act as subject matter expert for scoping feasibility and define requirements for analytics projects for CogStack and for the Trust OMOP database.
- Design and lead on technical objectives and analytical products for GSTT CogStack and OMOP.
- Lead collaborations with multi-disciplinary teams to discover and extract data, and help to produce impactful data analytics and visualisations.
This advert closes on Wednesday 2 Oct 2024