Senior Data Scientist - (Clinical Trial Recruitment)

Our Future Health is an ambitious collaboration between the public, charity and private sectors, designed to help people live healthier lives for longer through better prevention, earlier detection and improved treatment of diseases. We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to help shape the data foundations and technical capabilities we build to transform clinical research recruitment.

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

Benefits

• Competitive base salary from £75,000
• Generous Pension Scheme
• 30 Days Holiday pro rata + Bank Holidays
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Home & Tech Savings
• EV Scheme
• £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus
• Wellbeing Support