Health Analytics - Health Data Engineer (Associate Consultant)

Location - London or Winchester (minimum in-office time expectation is 40%, with Tuesday as the team day)

In 2020 LCP launched our Heath Analytics practice, providing analytical and research services for organisations across the life sciences and healthcare industries. Our team brings together clinicians, statisticians, epidemiologists, health economists, bioinformaticians and Health Data scientists alongside our established actuarial, analytics and technology teams to deliver new solutions to the fundamental challenges in health.

We have been growing the team quickly in response to the demand we are seeing for the innovative service offerings we have developed, and now have an exciting opening for a Health Data Engineer to join the team.

What do we do?

LCP’s Health Analytics team works across the healthcare and life sciences markets, combining health expertise with innovative approaches from our work in other sectors to tackle leading health issues.

Examples of the types of projects that you will be working on include:

• Developing ETL pipelines for dashboards projects.
• Support with data, networking, and technical infrastructure management.
• Support ongoing disaster recovery and business continuity plans using Azure's backup and recovery services.
• Support with the deployment of analytics and machine learning workflows to identify and predict trends in healthcare demand and supply.
• Contributing to Real world evidence studies using electronic healthcare records, registries, biobanks, and databases

What will you be doing?

As an Associate ConsultantHealth Data Engineer you will be involved in a diverse range of projects, covering both client and non-client work. Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Assess, onboard, organise and document Health Data from a variety of sources
• Support the team with data management, including database management, ETL and wrangling data
• Building and maintaining data pipelines
• Proactively identifying opportunities for innovation and areas for improvement across data management and pipelines
• Contributing to client projects as and when needed

What skills, experience and qualities are we looking for?

• Experience in a Data Engineering role (or similar) in the UK healthcare and/or life sciences industry
• Analytic familiarity with electronic health records and other sources of real-world and open Health Data
• A 2:1 degree or better in a relevant subject (e.g. Computer science, data science)
• Familiarity with Health Datasets and must have programming experience in SQL and Python. PySpark and/or R programming skills are desirable
• Experience with Azure Cloud Services, particularly Azure Data Factory, Databricks, SQL server/SQL databases, and Storage Accounts. Experience with Azure DevOps would be beneficial
• Working experience in designing and developing ETL data pipelines
• Working experience in designing and implementing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes
• Excellent problem solving skills
• For you to embrace and enjoy working as part of a small dynamic team, comfortable leading on day-to-day project activities with support from seniors
• Initiative and creativity
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent organisational skills

What’s in it for you?

Take a look at our Glassdoor page to see why our people love being here! As well as joining a multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:

For you:

• Hybrid working (varies by role and department)
• professional study support (where applicable)
• Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks

For your family:

• Life assurance, income protection, enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave

For your health:

• 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy & sell holiday
• Private medical insurance
• Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits
• Eye care vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Digital GP services

For your wealth:

• Competitive pension scheme
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• High street discounts
• Season ticket loans

For others:

• Volunteering opportunities

For the environment:

• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme (qualifying period applies)

And much more!

We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation.

LCP is committed to making our opportunities accessible to all and would welcome you getting in touch to let us know if an adjustment can be made to help with your application. This may be extra time for assessments, pre-interview site visits, interview structure or questions, or asking us about building accessibility. Whatever it may be, please get in touch with us via our dedicated email address - accessibilityaware@lcp.uk.com to discuss how we can support you with your application.