Job Description

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Description

Thalamos builds digital tools that enable the safe, effective, and compliant delivery of care under the Mental Health Act. Our eMHA platform reduces administrative burden, minimises risk, and improves outcomes for patients, clinicians, and other stakeholders, like NHS Trusts and Police forces, across the UK.


We're looking for a

mid-level Data Engineer

to join us for a 6-month contract to help develop and improve the way we collect, transform, and visualise data about the Mental Health Act patient pathway. You'll play a key role in supporting internal teams and external stakeholders by building tools, pipelines, and dashboards that turn complex data into actionable insight.###

Key Responsibilities

Data Engineering & Pipelines

Build and maintain robust

PostgreSQL queries

and

data pipelines

to support analytics and reporting on the MHA patient journey. Ensure data quality and pipeline resilience in production environments. Work closely with backend engineers to align on architecture and data schema design. Configure, manage, and evolve our

Apache Superset

dashboards to surface insights to internal teams and partner organisations (e.g. NHS Mental Health Trusts). Build flexible visualisation and report templates that meet the needs of clinical, operational, and compliance stakeholders. Support internal users (product, client, delivery teams) in interpreting and using the data effectively. Work with product managers, the client team, and external partners (e.g., NHS, Police) to clarify dashboard/report requirements and iterate on delivery. Collaborate in our existing

Jira + GitHub

development process and contribute to a transparent, well-documented workflow. Operate within a

TypeScript / AWS

backend environment and bring experience that complements this stack. Uphold and improve data engineering best practices: version control, testing, documentation, and review processes. Help define and maintain consistent naming conventions, metric definitions, and access controls.


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Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Strong SQL skills, especially

PostgreSQL

, and experience writing complex queries. Experience building and managing data pipelines in production. Working knowledge of

Apache Superset

(or similar BI tools like PowerBI, Tableau, Metabase or Looker). Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills. Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset with high attention to detail. A pragmatic approach to designing data solutions in a startup environment. Familiarity with

TypeScript

and cloud-based infrastructure, particularly

AWS

(e.g., Aurora / Lambda). Experience working with

Jira

and

GitHub

as part of agile software development. Understanding of data privacy, security, and compliance--especially in healthcare or public sector contexts. Knowledge of or interest in mental health services or NHS operational structures.


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Benefits

22 days holiday, plus bank holidays, plus your birthday and 3 days between Christmas & New Year (Pro Rata for term of contract) Free lunch twice a week Regular Socials


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About Thalamos

Thalamos is a profit-for-purpose business which builds and deploys software to improve outcomes in the assessment and treatment of Mental Illness. We support the professional users of our clients to co-ordinate urgent care across organisations and geographies: we build intuitive joined-up solutions for complex and disparate medico-legal pathways. Our Mental Health Act workflow software is currently in use in multiple Mental Health trusts in the NHS, across London by the Metropolitan Police, and nationally by the CQC. In 2024 we expanded our reach even further, including implementing a Pan-London NHS programme and we're now scaling our health, social care and police offerings.

Thalamos is values-driven in how it approaches recruitment as we believe this is the way to get the highest possible performance out of our team. We consider values to be equally important as skills and experience. We believe it is important to have fun and enjoy what we are doing, whilst also holding ourselves to a high level of professionalism.



We are looking for people who:align with our values care deeply about the culture of the team they work in are motivated to be present in our SE1 office in person at least three days a week

Our Values

Ambition


Motivated to constantly improve, professionally & personally. Not willing to accept the status quo and always seeking to identify ways to make things better. Willing to take on problems with no clear answer, even if the path forward is unclear. Able to define success and driven to achieve it.


Authenticity


Honesty and humility regarding yourself and your abilities. A level of introspection such that you are able to recognise your own drivers, motivators and "blind spots". A level of confidence that allows you to understand your strengths, but also your weaknesses and areas where you need support from your team.


Ability to "be yourself" irrespective of who you are communicating with, whether that is the most senior or junior person internally or externally .

Social Impact


A genuine interest in identifying ways to improve things for other people. An implicit understanding that lasting and meaningful change is best achieved by delivering tangible outcomes.

Getting the Job Done


A willingness to take responsibility, solve problems, navigate complexity and find a way to achieve a shared goal. Motivated by defined goals and can be creative in ways to reach them. Willing to be selfless and places more importance on achieving the goal than personal recognition.

High Performance Team


Places the success of the team above the success of an individual. Invests time in colleagues and understands that the highest performing teams consist of people with different skills and attributes. Approaches challenges without ego, is pragmatic where improvements are required and continually works to build communication and trust amongst colleagues. Respects other people's time, views and experiences.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.