"Data Scientist"

The MHRA is transforming. Through enabling innovation, making the right judgements of the benefits and risks of medical products and forging the right partnerships in the UK and internationally, it aims to deliver world class regulation and improved outcomes for UK patients.

We are currently looking for an experienced Data Scientist to join our Clinical Practice Research Datalink team in the Safety and Surveillance group.

Within a week of working here, your day could look like this: Supporting the Agency’s mission to help build on the CPRD’s 30-years of providing data for drug safety and epidemiological studies, resulting in over 3,500 peer-reviewed publications investigating drug safety, use of medicines, effectiveness of health policy, health care delivery and disease risk factors. Join us to help support delivery of our real-world research services that inform clinical guidance and best practice.

The post holder will develop and implement innovative analytical approaches. They will collaborate across functions to solve complex data challenges, drawing on expertise from a range of scientific and regulatory disciplines.

The successful candidate will:

• Be educated to degree level, or equivalent, in either a computer science-based, IT-based, maths-based, or related discipline, or equivalent work-related experience.
• Have the capability to work across multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high quality data extraction and analysis outcomes.
• Have proven ability of using data science to analyse and model data at scale.
• Have expertise in using statistical programming tools such as R, Python, and SQL.
• Have proven ability of developing processes and tools for modelling and interpreting diverse and complex datasets.