Senior Data Scientist – Clinical Trial Recruitment

🕒 April 30

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Our Future Health UK

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51 - 200 employees

Our Future Health is the UK’s largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to prevent, detect and treat diseases.Our mission is to create an incredibly detailed picture of the UK population’s health, by recruiting up to five million adult volunteers from across the UK. Each volunteer will be asked to fill out a questionnaire and provide a blood sample that can be linked to their health records. Taken together, the data will present health researchers with a powerful tool to identify new ways of tackling diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and dementia.It's an unprecedented challenge that involves answering questions that have never been asked before – ethical, practical, and technological. And by getting these answers right, we believe Our Future Health will allow future generations to live in good health for longer.We are currently expanding our team and looking for specialists across various fields – people who are motivated by the opportunity of creating something new that will make a difference to society. Click on the Jobs tab above to start exploring our current opportunities.Our Future Health is a registered charity in England, Wales and Scotland.

📋 Description

• Work closely with science, data and engineering teams to understand how recruitment feasibility and cohort selection are delivered in practice, and how customers engage with these outputs • Help translate existing recruitment workflows into clear data and technical requirements, supporting engineers to build capabilities that reflect operational and user needs • Contribute to the development of data products and services that underpin recruitment delivery, from internal tools used by expert teams through to capabilities that may later support customer‑facing workflows • Build and maintain production‑quality code, with a focus on trust, transparency, and fitness for use in a regulated environment • Support early prototyping and iterative delivery, using hands‑on experience to inform what is ready to be standardised, automated, or scaled • Define and document data requirements and pipeline logic, assumptions, and quality checks, working with others to ensure recruitment outputs remain reliable, interpretable and auditable as usage grows • Collaborate with governance, privacy, and compliance colleagues to ensure ethical, regulatory, and data protection requirements are embedded into how data is used and shared • Share insights from delivery, customer interactions, and data usage to help inform priorities and sequencing as recruitment technology evolves over time

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience applying data science or advanced analytics within health, life sciences, or clinical research contexts • Strong understanding of clinical research recruitment, feasibility assessment, or cohort identification workflows, and how these are delivered in practice • Experience working with real‑world health or clinical datasets (e.g. electronic health records, registries, or research cohorts) • Ability to translate clinical and operational requirements into clear analytical and technical approaches • Experience collaborating closely with software engineers on production systems, including contributing to the design of data pipelines or services • Strong programming skills (Python preferred, SQL, and version control) with the ability to write maintainable, auditable code suitable for production use • Familiarity with working in regulated or governed data environments, with an appreciation of ethical, privacy, and compliance requirements • Experience working in or alongside CROs, digital CROs, clinical research organisations, or clinical technology companies is desirable • Comfortable working in ambiguous problem spaces, where requirements emerge through delivery, learning, and iteration • Able to communicate complex concepts clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences, and to contribute effectively within cross‑functional teams • Pragmatic, thoughtful, and motivated by creating real‑world impact through collaborative problem‑solving.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary from £75,000 • Generous Pension Scheme – We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12% • 30 Days Holiday pro rata + Bank Holidays – Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you • Enhanced Parental Leave – Supporting you during life’s biggest moments • Cycle to Work Scheme – Save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice • Home & Tech Savings – Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products, spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice • EV Scheme – Save up to 40% on a brand new electric vehicle all-inclusive package through salary sacrifice • £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus – Know someone amazing? Get rewarded for bringing them on board! • Wellbeing Support – Access to Mental Health First Aiders, plus 24/7 online GP services and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family • A Great Place to Work – We have a lovely Central London office in Holborn, and offer flexible and remote working arrangements • **Join us - let’s prevent disease together. **