Senior Clinical Data Scientist

Job Title: Senior Clinical Data Scientist

Location: London

Job Type: Permanent

Agencies: We will only work with recruitment partners on our preferred supplier list and will not engage with speculative CVs submitted.

Are you passionate about making life science life changing and delivering impact for patients? We want to hear from you.

About the role:

Join LifeArc's multidisciplinary data sciences group, where our clinical data science team actively works on a diverse portfolio of health data projects and plans larger initiatives. These efforts focus on utilizing and generating health data to make a real and tangible difference for patients, including receiving diagnoses, joining trials, making treatment decisions, and otherwise impacting the course of their health condition.

This role is pivotal in driving meaningful patient outcomes through the strategic use of health data, and line manage 1-2 direct reports. As an expert, you will lead and oversee the planning and execution of health data projects. These projects will leverage data from LifeArc, collaborators, partners, and public sources, including electronic health records, patient registries, population health data, and clinical studies/trials.

Key responsibilities include:

• Connecting higher-level strategies to practical execution by providing subject matter expertise within a team of over six clinical data scientists, including 1-2 direct reports.
• Leading project planning, data processing, descriptive and statistical analyses, and standard machine learning projects.
• Maintaining and sharing knowledge of LifeArc-relevant UK and international health data resources.
• Leading and collaborating on preparing and submitting data access proposals.
• Developing, documenting, and standardizing reusable code (preferably in Python, also R) and practices (Git) for LifeArc’s Data Sciences Group.
• Collaborating on scientific questions and data solutions with internal and external stakeholders.
• Reporting project progress to Scientific Directors, Principal Data Scientists, Director of Data Sciences, and senior leadership as required.
• Writing summary reports on methodology and findings and presenting them to stakeholders.
• Collaborating with other Data Sciences functions as required (AI/ML, data engineering, bioinformatics, cheminformatics).
• Contributing to LifeArc project management and governance processes.

Education & experience required:

• BSc, MSc or PhD academic qualification with a data science element can be beneficial to execution of research-type studies and collaborations, or relevant experience (e.g. US-CHDA, industry training programmes).
• Significant applied experience with at least one health data resource (e.g., CPRD, NHS SDEs, patient registry, SAIL, Genomics England, UK Biobank, Our Future Health)
• Proficiency in statistical and/or machine learning analysis of health data
• Experience in Trusted Research Environments (TREs) or similar (Data Safe Haven, Secure Data Environment)
• Familiarity with medical codes, data dictionaries, and disease classification systems (e.g., SNOMED CT, ICD10, Read codes)
• Strong programming skills in Python (R will be considered)

Desirable:

• Knowledge of biology or clinical practice related to specific health conditions
• Experience in developing clinical decision support tools or AI as a Medical Device
• Secondary programming language
• Fundamental system administration of Linux/Unix-like OS, Windows OS, including command line level
• Preferably experience leading and mentoring.

Skills & abilities:

• Project leadership and management
• Scientific communication and strong presentation and writing skills.
• Collaboration and networking
• Good understanding of ethics and regulations around personal data use.

About us:

LifeArc is a not-for-profit life science organisation, leading the way for change in rare diseases in the UK and supporting promising initiatives in global health. We seek out research in areas of unmet need that has great potential, providing support to help it become breakthroughs that change lives.

What we can offer you:

Focused on finding life changing solutions for underserved patients, our people thrive in an inclusive, and supportive environment that prioritises their health and wellbeing. Our multidisciplinary approach guarantees our people growth opportunities, while our culture of innovation and collaboration drives the impact we make delivering on our purpose of ‘putting patients at the centre of everything we do’.

We are dedicated to creating a diverse, flexible, equitable and happy work environment so our colleagues can thrive as their truest selves. We act with courage, curiosity, care & commitment to deliver quality & excellence for our patients and each other Join us, and you’ll be given the scope to develop your professional skills and experience in a safe, supportive and challenging environment

Salary will be determined by qualifications and experience along with other exceptional benefits. Because we understand everyone has different requirements, our flexible benefits allow you to choose those which are important to you. Our pension scheme offers employer contributions of up to 12%, private health insurance, and annual leave of 31 days PLUS bank holidays.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people from minority ethnic backgrounds, for example, are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At LifeArc we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so whatever your background or lived experience, if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. Our top priority is finding the best candidate, and you may be just right for this or other roles.

We all have potential. At LifeArc, you’ll discover what you can really do with it.