Data Research Software Engineer

Job summary

THE ROLE A new and exciting opportunity has arisen for a skilled Research Data Engineer to join the Bristol Research and Innovation Data Engineering (BRIDE) Hub, a pioneering collaboration between the Uni***, University of the West of England, and Bristol NHS Group.

Benefits

Qualifications

• and make datasets discoverable and research-ready
• Improve data accessibility through efficient discovery and delivery
• into scalable data engineering solutions.
• YOU SHOULD APPLY IF
• You can demonstrate strong SQL proficiency, write complex queries with joins, window functions and aggregations
• You’ve solid understanding of analytical data formats and storage (e.g.
• Parquet, ORC, CSV, JSON) and scalable data processing
• You are motivated by building robust, re-usable data pipelines and take pride in writing clean, maintainable code
• You enjoy working in a multi-institution environment and are comfortable engaging with colleagues across academic and NHS settings
• You care about enabling high-quality, reproducible research through well-structured and reliable data assets
• You may have experience working with NHS administrative health or care data, or preparing research-ready datasets
• You may have experience working within Secure Data Environments or handling sensitive data in governed settings

Responsibilities

• are to design, build, and maintain robust data engineering solutions that enable high quality cutting-edge health research.
• You’ll contribute to two core workstreams:
• Workstream 1: Surfacing novel data assets
• Design and implement ETL processes to ingest and transform structured and unstructured NHS data
• Profile, map, and curate under-utilised or novel datasets (e.g.
• clinical text, imaging metadata, administrative data)
• Collaborate with researchers to understand

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