"Data Curator/Engineer"

The Institute of Cancer Research - Clinical Trials and Statistics Unit

Location: Sutton

Salary: £39,805 to £41,900 per annum. Commencement on the salary range is subject to comparable skills and experience

Hours: Full Time, Part Time

Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract

Placed On: 13th February 2026

Closes: 8th March 2026

Job Details

Are you an experienced data scientist looking for a new challenge? Are you motivated by the opportunity to contribute to high-quality trials of cancer treatments? Would you like to work in a supportive, academic environment? The Institute of Cancer Research Clinical Trials and Statistics Unit (ICR-CTSU) and Paediatric Cancer Centre, based in Sutton, would like to appoint a joint data scientist to provide support to data management activities across its portfolio of national and international phase II/ III multicentre cancer trials and biological rich clinical studies.

Key Requirements

Together with a life science/health/IT degree or equivalent, you have significant previous data management experience within a clinical trials unit, CRO or pharmaceutical company. You will have a thorough working knowledge of clinical and biological data management and electronic data capture systems. You have knowledge of SQL and NoSQL (graph-based) databases/structures and are comfortable handling different types of omics data. You have the excellent communication skills necessary to liaise with multi-disciplinary team members across multiple studies and would be happy to work individually as well as part of a wider team. You are innovative and able to understand interactions between multimodal data types, implement quality data management systems and procedures, and identify systems improvements. Experiences in UNIX/LINUX operating system and basic knowledge of end-to-end data operating systems/platforms (e.g., PALANTIR Foundry, cBioportal, GDC Data Portal) are desired. Experiences in Python programming language are required and experiences in R programming language are desired.

Department/Directorate Information

ICR-CTSU manages an exciting portfolio of national and international cancer clinical trials across all phases. You will contribute to the curation, engineering and management of multimodal data from clinical trials. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team on supporting the development, organisation and oversight of data structures within the ICR-CTSU, in collaboration with external organisations and the ICR Paediatric Cancer Centre.

When applying please provide a supporting statement as to why you are applying for this position and detail your relevant experience. Together with your CV, please include details of your current salary and the names and addresses of two referees.

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