Senior Data Scientist

Responsibilities

• Develop data-driven approaches to disclosure control and safe outputs review to support the scaling of the Trusted Research Environment (TRE).
• Build algorithms and automated tools to classify outputs, detect disclosive content, and identify patterns of risk.
• Contribute to de-identification and re-identification risk assessments across datasets and access models.
• Develop approaches for safe AI, including managing privacy risks associated with trained models.
• Explore synthetic data generation and evaluate the trade-offs between privacy, fidelity, and utility.
• Collaborate with Information Security to develop data-driven security controls, threat detection, and cyber risk quantification.
• Build prototypes and production-quality code in collaboration with engineering teams.

Requirements

• Significant experience applying data science, machine learning, or statistical modelling to complex real-world datasets.
• Strong applied statistical expertise, including the ability to quantify risk and uncertainty.
• Strong Python skills and experience writing maintainable, production-quality code.
• Experience working with sensitive, confidential, or regulated data.
• Knowledge of privacy-preserving machine learning or privacy-enhancing technologies (e.g., differential privacy, federated learning).
• Understanding of common privacy attacks against data and models, such as membership inference or model inversion.
• Ability to translate complex governance or security problems into practical technical requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with health, biomedical, or genomic research data.
• Experience developing models that support human decision-making with an emphasis on explainability and auditability.
• Background in anomaly detection, behavioral analytics, or detection engineering.
• Familiarity with UK data protection and health data access expectations.
• Experience with MLOps, cloud platforms, or containerization.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary from £80,000
• Generous Pension Scheme with employer contributions up to 12%
• 30 Days Holiday pro rata plus Bank Holidays
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Cycle to Work, EV, and Home & Tech savings schemes
• Wellbeing support including Mental Health First Aiders and 24/7 online GP services

About the Company

Our Future Health is an ambitious collaboration between the public, charity, and private sectors, designed to help people live healthier lives through better prevention and earlier disease detection. With over 2.5M volunteers across the UK, we are building the world’s largest health research programme to drive breakthroughs in medical science.