Data Scientist

Abtrace; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Pension

Generous maternity/paternity leave

Flexi working & remote option

Office in Paddington

Job summary

Abtrace Limited is seeking a Data Scientist (Mid/Senior) to analyse longitudinal healthcare datasets and build predictive models. The role emphasizes Python/SQL proficiency, ML libraries (scikit-learn, pandas, XGBoost) and NLP transformer techniques, in a fast-moving, cross-functional team.

You will validate and deploy models on real clinical data, address missing values and class imbalance, and collaborate with doctors and engineers.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Experience with ML libraries and NLP techniques
• Experience with real-world clinical/longitudinal datasets
• Able to collaborate with clinicians and data scientists

Responsibilities

• Analyse large longitudinal clinical datasets.
• Design and evaluate predictive models from healthcare data.
• Experiment with ML methods and NLP techniques.
• Validate, deploy, and monitor models; retrain as needed.

Skills

Python

SQL

scikit-learn

pandas

XGBoost

NLP

Transformer models

MLOps

AWS SageMaker

Athena

Tools

SageMaker

Athena

Job description

The Company

Abtrace is solving one of the most complex and impactful challenges in healthcare: enabling primary care to deliver proactive, preventative care at scale.

Our team of doctors, researchers, software engineers and data scientists combines clinical expertise, advanced software engineering and AI to build clinical algorithms that help primary care clinicians identify risks earlier and intervene sooner.

We are building digital health technology that delivers personalised Population Health interventions at scale. Our platform continuously analyses patients’ health records to identify early signals of deterioration, emerging disease and opportunities for preventative care—helping clinicians act before problems become more serious.

Today, our technology is deployed across more than 600 primary care practices, supporting care for 7.5 million patients.

The Role

We’re looking for a Data Scientist (Mid/Senior) to join our team. The core duty of the position will be the analysis of longitudinal healthcare datasets and development of predictive models from those datasets. The ideal candidate should have strong Python and SQL skills and be proficient in data science libraries such as scikit-learn, pandas and XGBoost, as well as transformer-based NLP techniques.

We are looking for someone who works well in a fast-moving team and communicates effectively with non-technical team members.

Responsibilities

• Analyse large longitudinal clinical datasets.


• Work with complex, real-world structured data, addressing missing values and class imbalance and preventing label leakage.


• Design predictive algorithms and conduct machine learning experiments using clinical datasets


• Validate and deploy models, monitor their performance and retrain them as needed


• Collaborate with a small, close-knit and diverse multidisciplinary team of developers, data scientists and doctors.

• Proficiency in Python and SQL


• Excellent knowledge of machine learning and MLOps


• Experience with natural language processing (NLP), particularly transformer-based approaches


• Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure, including services such as SageMaker and Athena

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with dbt or a comparable data transformation framework


• Experience with time-series analysis, survival analysis, or longitudinal modelling

• Competitive salary depending on experience


• Private Pension


• Generous maternity/paternity leave


• Flexi working & possibility for remote working


• Company's office in Paddington - easy commute and comfortable surroundings


• Motivated, highly functioning, multi-disciplinary team


• Opportunity to be involved in ground-breaking technology impacting patient health