Clinical Analytics Development Analyst
The position offers an exciting opportunity to develop the next generation of machine learning analytical tools that utilize genomic and clinical data to make personalized medicine a reality. The job holder will be responsible for managing the day to day operational activity of the clinical analytics platform along with supporting the Clinical Analytics Team at KCH.
The post holder will be responsible for support in developing the clinical analytics platform in order to help centralise specialist databases for advance analysis. The post holder will be responsible for the user management and training of the KCH Cogstack system and will be required to meet with clinical users to develop projects that lead to improvements in service performance, improved outcomes for patients and deliver more effective utilisation of resources.
This will require excellent communication and interpersonal skills to develop challenging clinical problems into deliverable proposals. The Clinical Analytics Developer Analyst will have a technical background in using Open Source technology and will be responsible for the implementation and design of the platform ensuring it complies with the Trust Governance policy.
Experience in using SQL Server DBA together with implementation, configuration, maintenance, and performance of SQL Server systems would be required. KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS: Application Developers Integration Engineers Clinical Analysts Key business stakeholders Clinical System Owners Infrastructure Technical Support Analysts Third party suppliers ICT Management ICT Project Managers ICT Security and Data Governance Clinical Division Managers Precision Medicine Management Main Duties and Responsibilities Support the Clinical Analytics Team to ensure the Trusts Clinical Analytics Platform is appropriately maintained and kept up-to-date.
Develop complex data mining processes. For example; I.Machine learning process by regression, ensemble methods, decision trees, clustering, neural networks and deep learning II.Natural language processing by content extraction, classification, machine generation and text generation Support the system and ensure data quality.For example, poor data quality metrics will be developed for specific objects that have invalid or missing values, a value coming in an unexpected or corrupted format; duplicate instances; inconsistent references or unit of measures; incomplete cases; broken URLs; corrupted binary data, missing packages of data, gaps in the feeds, miss mapped properties and more.
Manage secure data access for users, setting up roles and be the point of contact for solving user problems and logging and replying to calls and issues raised by users in a defined time period. Provide training and support to customers who require reporting and analytics functions to be developed in their data stacks.
Create customised dashboards for users on metrics that aid clinical, operational and financial performance. Inform the AI & Clinical Bioinformatics Lead of any technical issues and perform troubleshooting processes to determine the root cause and provide possible workaround and solutions, including code errors.
Manage SQL Server databasesincluding; Configure and maintain database servers and processes Monitor system's health and performance Ensure high levels of performance, availability, sustainability and security Analyse, solve, and correct issues in real time Provide suggestions for solutions Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes Assist developers with query tuning and schema refinement Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities Support the delivery of Informatics projects; which requires liaising with clinical leads and project leads from other Trusts, including Kings Health Partners & Kings College London among others.
Platform Development & Maintenance Develop and implement new data feeds, alerting processes and machine learning as required by the Kings College Hospital Analytics service. Liaise with Trust staff/internal customers in identification, design, development and implementation of new data feeds.Discover and review new and emerging technologies and outline the benefits to the AI & Clinical Bioinformatics Lead Deploy the Trusts Clinical Analytics Platform in a consistent and coherent method across the organisation. Ensure both hardware and software of the platform comply with the quality assurance standards of the Trust.
Support software extensions of the Clinical Analytics Platform as required. Assign and develop roles using the built-in security tool, ensuring appropriate training has been provided to staff prior to allowing access. Perform regular hardware checks and closely monitor the cluster and all data indexing processes ensuring the smooth running of the platform Support the Clinical Analytics Developer Lead in, and at times perform, platform upgrades.
Training Train users of the Clinical Analytics Platform and assist them in analysing information for business purposes, as required. Develop customised training workshops on themed issues, such as natural language based searching of unstructured data sets.
Develop training and support documentation for users, ensuring it up-to-date in line with the technology.