Data & Analytics Medical Informatics Industrial Placement Welwyn 2023

The Data Engineer’s principal efforts will be focused on the development and use of programs for collecting, managing, processing, analyzing, reporting, and visualizing biomedical and healthcare data. This individual will also be involved with supporting a secure technical infrastructure for the integration and analysis of data from health data partners.

Essential Responsibilities

Technical Skills

• Scale our data platform to handle vast quantities of complex data for our increasing number of health system customers and make them available to downstream application
• Ensure that the data collected is of high quality and optimal for use.
• Design, implementation, and testing of ETL systems
• Implement alerting, continuous data monitoring, and input/output data validation in all our data pipelines to ensure the quality, consistency, and reliability of our data
• Provide complete documentation and communication of all processes, methods, and results
• Document processes and collaborate with administrative tasks related to the Real Word Data Hub
• Support production solutions and the ongoing updating and maintenance of our reference data sources

Partnership and Teamwork

• Support Real Word Data Hub and Healthcare Data Engineer by evaluating and understanding our infrastructures and data systems, proposing appropriate solutions to guarantee our objectives.
• Foster relationships within the Roche network to leverage different areas of expertise and contribute to the wider community.
• Participate in technical negotiations with users to understand their requirements and propose solutions.

Education and Technical Experience

• Must be currently enrolled in a university, pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in healthcare informatics, information systems, computer science, data science, or related major
• Some experience with programming languages (e.g., Python, R, or JVM language), databases (e.g., relational, non-relational, document, graph), web languages and technologies (e.g Javascript, React, D3, API’s)
• High-performance and distributed computing, algorithm design and evaluation, software engineering, and machine learning
• Manipulate, process, and extract value from large complex datasets and experience with data visualization
• Experience with health data, including mapping data to standards such as common data models (e.g., OHDSI OMOP, CDISC SDTM and HL7 FHIR) and terminologies (e.g., ICD9/10, SNOMED, RxNorm, and LOINC)
• Understanding of big data technologies such as Spark, scaling up as well as scaling down
• Experience working with cloud technologies (AWS, GCP)

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to work in, co-create and contribute to a highly complex and team-oriented global environment.
• Ability to work in, and contribute to, a fast-paced and changing environment, where multiple priorities need to be effectively managed, while maintaining composure and flexibility in a structured and highly complex environment.
• Comfortable navigating through ambiguity

Personal Attributes

• Lives the Roche values and leadership commitments, drives a collaborative culture and process growth mindset.

Certificates, Licenses and Registrations (Preferred but not required)

• SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) database
• Graph database (e.g., Neo4j, Amazon Neptune)
• Data visualisation tools ( e.g. Power BI, Tableau)
• AWS Cloud Technologies, Google Cloud Platform
• Big data technologies e.g Spark, Databricks
• License for clinical practice (e.g., RN, PA, NP, DO/MD)
• Clinical trial certifications CDISC (CDASH, SDTM, ADAM)

Application Process

Phase I

Purpose - our focus on this first stage is to understand why you have applied for this role and what you will bring to the role to ensure team and personal success.

• Cover letter & CV
• Video interview

As part of your cover letter, Roche is keen to understand your motivation in applying for this position. You should, therefore, provide responses to the following:

• Why Roche: What do you know about Roche and why do you want to work here?
• Why you: If you had to choose a single example or achievement in your life, that you feel would make you suitable for this role, what would it be and why?

Your cover letter should not exceed one page.

Please note that any application without a cover letter will be automatically rejected. Application deadline: 8th November 2022.

Phase II

• Final Assessment Centre (around December 2022-January 2023)

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Our UK Pharmaceutical head office is situated in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, with beautiful countryside surrounding the area. Supported by major motorways & airports as well as being a 30 minute train ride to London, access is easy. Our award-winning office, known as Hexagon Place, was opened in 2005 and provides a modern, flexible working environment with facilities that are second-to-none. Around 2,000 people work at our Welwyn office in Global Early Development (pRED), Global Product Development (PD), Commercial (Rx) and our Corporate functions.

Roche offer a competitive salary plus the excellent benefits you would expect from a blue-chip organisation. There is a fully equipped gym on-site, a library and information centre, and an active sports and social club. We also have a subsidised staff restaurant providing foods to cater for every taste throughout the day. At the heart of the building is an informal meeting area known as The Street which features a coffee shop, snack machine and cashpoint.

A second building on-site, called The Hub, contains modern meeting room and conference facilities. Roche promotes personal well-being and work-life balance. Therefore, flexible working options will be considered for all roles at Roche UK. Roche is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment. The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of Roche.

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of Roche Products Ltd. At Roche Products we believe diversity drives innovation and we are committed to building a diverse and flexible working environment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability or age. We recognise the importance of flexible working and will review all applicants’ requests with care. At Roche difference is valued and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer where you are encouraged to bring your whole self to work.