Data Analyst (Healthcare)

Location: Remote, based in or eligible to work and travel within the United Kingdom; Hemel Hempstead, England, United Kingdom.

Company

NEC Software Solutions provides software supporting public services, healthcare, emergency response, transport, policing and local authorities as part of NEC Corporation.

What you will do

• Maintain, run and develop reporting pipelines for clinical registry data, including extraction, preprocessing, analysis, visualisation and reporting outputs.
• Cleanse data and perform quality assurance on scripts, outputs and integrations.
• Write SQL queries against relational databases to investigate data-quality issues, explore datasets and respond to bespoke analytical requests.
• Work with data quality, developer, analyst and data science colleagues and with internal and external stakeholders to clarify reporting needs.
• Produce technical documentation, SOPs, methodology documentation and supporting information.
• Apply version control, impact assessment and validation practices while developing knowledge of health data analysis, clinical registries and healthcare processes.

Requirements

• Degree in computer science, statistics or a related quantitative discipline.
• Proficiency with R, SQL and Excel; RStudio and R Markdown/Quarto are preferable.
• Experience cleansing, processing and managing large datasets, with previous relevant experience in data analysis, reporting, data management or a similar analytical role.
• Ability to analyse complex clinical, technical and business documentation, translate requirements into practical analytical solutions and rapidly learn medical terminology, healthcare processes and clinical contexts.
• Ability to deliver under pressure and without regular supervision, solve problems, meet deadlines, stay self-motivated and work flexibly.
• Pre-existing right to work and travel within the UK is required; documentary evidence will be required.
• Offers are subject to satisfactory vetting, references and occupational health checks; a DBS check may also be required depending on the role.

Nice to have

• Postgraduate degree in a relevant field or professional IT certificate.
• Experience with version control, remote repositories, data warehouses and open database connectivity.
• Working knowledge of frequentist and Bayesian statistical methods.
• Ability to interpret, present and communicate statistical results according to recognised reporting standards and scientific frameworks.
• Experience with health data, clinical registries, unclean data and free text.
• Experience with BI tools, preferably Power BI, and Snowflake.

Culture & Benefits

• Private medical cover funded for employees, with optional family cover at additional cost.
• 25 days of paid holiday with the option to buy or sell holiday days.
• Life assurance cover of four times basic salary, funded by NEC, with optional additional cover.
• Group pension plan with employer contributions of up to 8.5% and flexible benefits.
• Free access to LinkedIn Learning with more than 15,000 courses.
• Equal opportunities employer committed to reasonable adjustments and accessibility support.