Senior Data Scientist (Life Science/Healthcare)

PrecisionLife Ltd; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Senior Data Scientist in Oxford, focusing on precision medicine. You'll develop advanced computational tools to enhance analytical platforms, contributing to groundbreaking work in healthcare and drug discovery. The role involves collaboration, data analysis, and the application of quantitative research to improve health outcomes globally.

Benefits

Competitive salary with performance related bonuses

Stock Options

Company pension scheme

Life Assurance

Private Healthcare Scheme

25 days annual leave

Access to training events

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience in a relevant role.
• Experience with developing computational tools in bioinformatics.

Responsibilities

• Developing new computational tools for complex disease analysis.
• Collaborating to design and develop new tools and products.

Skills

Python

Communication

Data Analysis

Education

MS or Ph.D. in a relevant technical field

Tools

Docker

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

Senior Data Scientist (Life Science/Healthcare)

Location: Oxford, UK (Hybrid working)
Contract: Full-time permanent
Reporting to: SVP Bioinformatics

Join PrecisionLife as a Senior Data Scientist and contribute to groundbreaking work in precision medicine.

We're seeking a quantitative researcher passionate about uncovering novel correlations within complex life science and healthcare datasets. This role offers the opportunity to develop advanced computational tools and algorithms, enhancing our analytical platforms and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in data science.

PrecisionLife is at the forefront of precision medicine, developing better diagnostic tools and personalized treatment options to predict, treat, and prevent complex, chronic diseases. Our work aims to increase the success rate of drug development and improve health outcomes for billions globally. Headquartered near Oxford, UK, we also have offices in London, Copenhagen, Warsaw, and Cambridge, MA.

Responsibilities:

• Working on core analytical platforms, improving performance and pushing edge-case boundaries
• Developing new computational tools and algorithms for diverse datasets in complex disease analysis
• Supporting healthcare and drug discovery projects by generation of data-driven insights
• Delving into new and existing sets to explain and explore data composition, structure and sparsity
• Driving the collection, cleaning and verification of new data and the refinement of existing data sources
• Collaborating to design and develop new tools and products to put powerful decision support interfaces in the hands of end-users
• Analysing, interpreting and communicating the results of product experiments
• Working closely in cross-functional teams to identify and answer important product questions

Requirements:

• MS. or Ph.D. in a relevant technical field, or 4+ years’ experience in a relevant role
• Experience with developing (in addition to applying) computational tools and algorithms in the fields of bioinformatics, healthcare or other related fields
• Proficiency with Python for data analysis, pipeline development and visualization
• Knowledge of statistics (ideally bio-statistics) and data clustering techniques
• Knowledge of bioinformatics resources and analyses such as functional and pathway analysis
• Ability to contribute projects through application of quantitative, data science or bioinformatics approaches
  
  
  

Preferred:

• Familiarity with workflow management systems (such as Cromwell or Nextflow) and/or containerization (such as Docker) would be a plus
• Experience working with large data sets, Trusted Research Environments (TREs) and/or cloud computing platforms (AWS or Google Cloud) would be advantageous
• Familiarity with analysis of genomics, proteomics or transcriptomics data and/or electronic health records
• Experience with advanced statistical techniques and machine learning algorithms would be a plus
  
  

Key attributes:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills in English (min. of equivalent of CEFR level C1)
• Highly driven to conduct data-driven research and derive evidence-based solutions for complex analytical challenges
• Confidence to make suggestions and influence change
• Ability to work well to deadlines, while paying attention to detail and accuracy
• Flexible approach to working in teams or in self-driven projects
• A high degree of pragmatism in building the simplest thing that does the job; we want to use technology to solve real-world problems expediently
• Ability to work with care and discretion in regulated data-environments
  
  

What we offer:

• Competitive salary with performance related bonuses
• Stock Options (subject to qualifying)
• Company pension scheme (subject to qualifying)
• Life Assurance/Death in Service Insurance (subject to qualifying)
• Private Healthcare Scheme (subject to qualifying)
• Flexible-Hybrid working pattern model to allow for flexibly between remote and office working
• 25 days annual leave (pro rata) (increasing to equivalent of 28 days hols/annum on completion 3 years of service)
• Access to substantial number of courses and training events
• Excellent career development opportunities in a fast-growing international organisation

We follow the HMG’s right to work employment checks and you will therefore need to satisfy basic eligibility criteria/certain conditions of employment (e.g. nationality rules/right to work); and provide appropriate original documentation to verify ID, nationality, employment and/or academic history.

PrecisionLife is an ISO27001 and ISO27701 accredited business, fully committed to equal opportunities and operating a carbon neutral business.

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