This essential team oversees the maintenance, management and organisation of over 30 petabytes of cloud-based data, ensuring its accuracy and accessibility for researchers globally.
Be a guardian of health data integrity
Our Data Management team consists of around 15 Data Analysts and Bioinformaticians of various levels who thrive on curiosity, collaboration and problem-solving, with the aim of delivering easily navigable data solutions.
They work daily with approved researchers across the globe to create a uniquely powerful and user-friendly data resource, trusted for its accuracy by the world’s scientific community.
The team help to curate, manage and document large-scale health data. They work across a variety of studies and data sources, ensuring that the data made available to researchers is clean, accurate and well understood.
Key skills we look for
- Many of the team hold MSc or equivalent in a scientific or numerate subject, or ability to demonstrate equivalent experience.
- Proficiency core technologies such as R, Python and SQL.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
- Ability to present to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to prioritise workload.
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
Why join the Data Management team?
Joining the Data Management team at UK Biobank will give you a rare opportunity to use your advanced technical skills to handle the most comprehensive environmental, lifestyle and genetic dataset ever collected.
You’ll be helping scientists around the world to create better ways to diagnose, prevent and treat diseases for everyone, everywhere.
The team perform analyses across over 6000 different data fields for each participant.
After completing a PhD in Genetic Epidemiology, I joined UK Biobank as a Data Analyst in 2023, part of a collaborative and supportive Data Management team. We contribute to complex, data-driven projects enabling groundbreaking research. Recently, I transitioned into the role of Scrum Master, driving agile improvements within the team.
Carl, Scrum Master
Hear what a researcher has to say
As our imaging project reached 100,000 scans, researchers are thrilled with the vast amounts of data our Data Management team look after to support their ground-breaking work:
UK Biobank’s imaging study has transformed the landscape of biomedical research forever. The sheer volume of data propelled major advances in computerised image analysis. Now researchers can measure the size, shape, and composition of nearly every organ and tissue in the body in seconds, rather than hours per person.
Professor Louise Thomas, University of Westminster, UK
Learn more about careers at UK Biobank
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