Employer: University of Edinburgh
Position: Database Support Analyst
Salary: Grade UE06: £34,132 to £39,355 per annum, pro-rata if part time
Job Type: Full-time
Fixed term: 12 months
Expected hours: 35 hours per week
Work location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Application deadline: 28 May 2025.
FULL JOB DESCRIPTION
The Opportunity:
The Diabetes Medical Informatics and Epidemiology (DMI&E) research group, led by Prof. Helen Colhoun in the Institute of Genetics and Cancer (IGC), is in search of a full-time Database Support Analyst. The group conduct and facilitate research into diabetes and its complications using extensive electronic health care linked data sets including bioresources. Our analytics team comprises machine learning specialists, biostatisticians and epidemiologists. We have a reputation for excellence and many international collaborators. We are seeking a person with proven programming and data handling skills to provide a link between the source of our raw data and the analytics team. The role will involve assisting the Data Warehouse Manager and the Software and Database Engineer/Developer to develop and maintain the data extraction and cleaning layers, and maintain data metadata and the associated content management system for the large research datasets of the Diabetes Informatics and Epidemiology team at IGC. This post is a full-time position for 1 year, and will be based solely within the Institute of Genetics and Cancer as the requirements and scope of the role necessitate in-person collaboration and engagement. We will only consider remote work arrangements in exceptional circumstances.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- A degree or an extensive experience in medical informatics, computer science, bioinformatics, mathematics or statistics.
- Experience in handling large complex datasets.
- Good interpersonal skills and an ability to communicate clearly.
- Clear understanding of the importance of well-structured metadata.
- Familiarity with the Linux environment.
- A competitive annual salary of £34,132 – £39,355 per annum
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options.
Championing equality, diversity and inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
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On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK
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Key dates to note
- The closing date for applications is 28 May 2025.
- Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
- Interviews are expected to be held inweek commencing 9 June 2025.
- Candidates will be expected to start in July 2025.
Application Process
If you’re interested in this role, check out more information on the Official website and apply now!