Job Description

Contract type: Full time (35 Hours per week)
Open-ended contract, available from January 2024
Number of posts 2
Location: Usher Institute moves to a new building in Edinburgh Bioquarter, early 2024

The post holder will curate data, support meta-data cataloguing and work with researchers to define and deliver secure data extracts so that datasets are made available securely for research, development and innovation taking place across industry, academia and the NHS.

The opportunity:
The DataLoch project - the foundation of the Health & Social Care aspect of the DDI programme - manages a data resource and research enabling facility that holds securely local, regional and national health and social care data for the residents of the Edinburgh & South East Scotland region. DataLoch enables research into disease mechanisms, treatment pathways, health service delivery and public health amongst others.
DataLoch creates Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) datasets, providing expert support to catalyse their responsible use in health care research and innovation. DataLoch offers a \'one-stop\' service for trustworthy, multi-stakeholder utilisation of curated data for public, private and third sector benefit.
Informal enquiries may be directed to Kathy Harrison, Programme Lead ( ).

Your skills and attributes for success:

• An honours degree in a scientific or numerate subject.
• At least two years\' experience working in data management and large datasets
• An understanding of the datasets involved to be able to distinguish study needs and experience of managing data quality
• Experience in writing complex queries to interrogate databases (e.g. Ms SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle)
• The ability to use mainstream data science programming languages (such as Java, Python) for data extraction, transferring and transforming data, and statistical data analysis
• Experience in using one or more statistical software packages (e.g. SAS, STATA, R or similar)

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