Junior Data Engineer

at  Ardens

COMPANY BACKGROUND

Ardens is an exciting and fast-growing health tech company that has a passion for improving patient care through better use of technology. We are a clinically led organisation of over 130 people, including GPs, nurses, clinical pharmacists, developers, account managers, product specialists and customer support.

Our two products, Ardens Clinical and Ardens Manager, are used by 87% of GP Practices across England and provide the following benefits for patients and the NHS:

• Improve patient safety: Ardens can help prevent medication errors, missed diagnoses, drug contraindications and other possible issues via clinical decision support templates, searches, reports and alerts.
• Timely diagnosis: Clinicians can use Ardens alerts, reports and dashboards to assist with the quicker identification of patients who should have a clinically coded diagnosis.
• Save NHS time: Ardens saves time through building and designing resources which provide both best practice and contractual guidance. Commissioners are supported with streamlining the local contract process including contract signing, reporting, data submissions and monitoring payments.
• Improve quality of care: Ardens templates, reports and dashboards follow the same structure and align with national and local guidance. This ensures a high level of care can consistently be delivered to patients across the country.
• Enable data-driven insights: Ardens dashboards provide data trends and analysis which can be monitored at scale (e.g. ICB and national level). This can inform clinical decision making, practice management and quality improvement.
• Provide benchmarking and performance comparison: Practices can identify areas for improvement through Ardens Manager bench marking functionality. Primary Care Networks (PCNs) or groups of GP practices can also effectively allocate resources and incentivise care.
• Increase contractual income: Ardens assists GP Practices and PCNs with delivering both local and national contract requirements including QOF, NCD (including IIF), SMI Health Checks and NHS Health Checks. Organisations can better manage achievement of incentivised targets resulting in higher income.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or Engineering
• Working knowledge of at least one scripting or programming language
• Ideally experience with Python or Go! (but not required)
• Working knowledge of SQL
• Exposure to a cloud environment (AWS ideal)
  Any experience with data will be hugely beneficial especially with regards to modern statistical analysis techniques and machine learning, although not central to the role these will be areas into which we will be expanding over the coming years.

We are looking for an eager graduate level Junior Data Engineer, with a passion for data and a desire to make a tangible difference. The role will involve maintaining and working on existing complex data pipelines and being upskilled to support and further develop these and new processes. The team is small, but the output is significant to the broader company and so the expectations are equally high.
This is a full-time role, based at our office in Fordingbridge, Hampshire with the flexibility of some working from home. You will need to be office-based at least three days per week, and more to begin with.