Join us at EIT:

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas:

Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology
Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture
Climate Change & Managing CO₂
Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you'll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org.

Welcome to the Pathogen Project:

Within this ecosystem, the Pathogen Project exemplifies EIT's dedication to ground-breaking science. It seeks to transform pathogen risk management, detection and response by leveraging Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS)-based metagenomic and pathogen-specific analytical tools. The goal is to power metagenomic devices using long-read sequencing technologies by building a comprehensive database of pathogen information to inform response. Enabled by Oracle Inc.'s cloud-computing scale and security, the Pathogen Project is advancing toward certified diagnostic tools for deployment in laboratories, hospitals, and public health organisations worldwide.

Your Role:

At EIT we are seeking an experienced and detailed orientated Data Architect. You'll have the opportunity to shape the future of our data platform and collaborate with platform and product teams to deliver analytical and AI products to transform pathogen monitoring and diagnostics. You'll be responsible for defining data standards, data models and best practices to ensure the integrity, security, and accessibility of our data assets. Additionally, you'll play a key role in optimising data processes and workflows, driving efficiencies, and fostering a data-driven culture within the organisation.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

Understand and manage the data requirements by working with stakeholders to analyse requirements and identifying those of architectural significance
Formulating the data model and standards to be used by the data platform to support interoperability and federation to support pathogen monitoring and research
Communicating the data architecture to various stakeholder groups within EIT
Developing data architectures including different data flows, data lifecycle, data security, durability, as well as applying consistent documentation standards and architecture methods
Supporting developers and making sure they can realise the data architecture by a combination of mentoring and direct involvement
Responsible for producing architecture artifacts and presenting the work through architecture governance
Verifying implementations and ensuring the delivered systems is consistent with the agreed architecture and meets requirements
Defining architecture data standards are defined to ensure compliance. This may include Medical Device Accreditation (where relevant)
Ensuring that squads have available a set of standard patterns, guidance, and technical standards to help them deliver
Ensuring solutions are documented and assured through defined architecture governance processes

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

Knowledge and experience of architecting and delivering modern data platform standards, tools and patterns including data lakes, lake houses, iceberg, data mesh
Experience of architecting, building, and delivering modern data platforms at scale
Familiar with TOGAF and other enterprise architecture frameworks
Experience and knowledge of data governance, data quality, and data cataloguing
Knowledge of master, metadata and reference data management
An understanding of Agile working practices and sprint based methodology

Capable of actively contributing to knowledge sharing

Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

Knowledge of genomics
Experience with cloud-based data platforms preferably Oracle OCI or equivalent AWS and Azure services
Understanding of federation standards for genomics ( ga4gh)
Understanding of data standards for pathogen data interoperability PHA4GE
Experience of architecting data standards for research environments
Experience with healthcare clinical data and associated standards OMOP , snowmed

Key Attributes:

Collaboration
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
Willingness to learn and cross train / upskill in new technology
Willingness to be hands on to explore new technology or develop POC's

Benefits

We offer the following salary and benefits:

Competitive Salary + Travel Allowance + Bonus
Enhanced holiday pay
Pension
Life Assurance
Income Protection
Private Medical Insurance
Hospital Cash Plan
Therapy Services
Perk Box
Electrical Car Scheme

Working Together - What It Involves:

You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case-by-case basis
You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate)
Hybrid working (3 days onsite)

Data Architect - Pathogen

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