Data Engineer

Touch Surgery ,
London, Greater London
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5 billion people, two-thirds of the worlds population, do not have access to safe and affordable surgical care. As a result, millions go untreated every year, causing unnecessary suffering, permanent debilitation, or death. The causes are a shortage of surgeons, varying quality of care, rising costs of training surgeons, lack of funding and lack of accessibility to quality surgery. Digital Surgery is on a mission to change surgical care for the better. With our award-winning Touch Surgery mobile application and web platform, it is now the dawn of Digital Surgery. Digital Surgery has created a digital data-driven ecosystem that uses the latest cutting-edge technologies like AI, augmented reality and computer vision to modernize surgical training, orchestrate surgical teams in the OR and deliver safer surgery around the world. We are currently seeking a Data Engineer to scale and maintain our data management structures. You will work closely with Engineers, Data Scientists and Computer Vision Engineers to translate functional and technical requirements into detailed design as well as taking ownership of defining improvements and scaling strategies to our existing data infrastructure. You will be responsible for ensuring that the quality and integrity of our data is of the highest standard. Requirements Must haves: * BSc in a relevant discipline, such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Analytics or similar. * Experience building cloud-based systems & architectures using services such as AWS or GCP. * Knowledge of SQL and relational databases. * Experience in building end to end data pipelines including data collection, cleaning and validation processes. * Experience translating complex functional and technical requirements into detailed design. * Experience in writing clean and maintainable code for collaborative working and using code versioning tools. * Flexible - you can independently solve problems as they arise, but are comfortable asking for help when you need it. * Excellent communicator and team player - you are comfortable working with programmers, marketers, surgeons, business leaders, and everyone in-between. * Experience overseeing database migrations and maintaining database schema * Experience in using open source tools for large scale data processing, for example, Apache Spark and Kafka. * Experience with ETL workflow tools like Luigi or Airflow. * Experience with Django or other open-sourced web frameworks. Nice to haves: * Knowledge of GDPR and HIPAA data policies and how these influence data structures and security. Benefits Were in a really lucky position to operate like a small team, with all of the benefits of a big company. Following our acquisition by Medtronic in February 2020, our benefits have had an impressive face lift. Our benefit package aims to help support your health, build wealth, grow in your career and share in the success of Digital Surgery and Medtronic. We are in the healthcare business and so in order to look after our people we provide: * Private healthcare via AXA PPP - 100 excess * 30 days holiday + 8 bank holidays * Pension scheme (we double your personal contribution of up to 6%, by contributing 12%) * Annual bonus scheme * Annual meal allowance * Life insurance (4 x annual salary*) * Group Income Protection (67% of insured salary payable until pensionable age) * Personal Accident Cover ( 3 x annual salary) * Maternity - 20 weeks full pay + 15% returners bonus * Paternity - 2 weeks full pay * Employee Assistance Programme (support line for counselling, legal or financial advice) Not to mention all of the other bells and whistles such as free daily breakfast, employee recognition programs, cash for referring a friend and a whole host of other wellness benefits. As part of being Family Friendly, we encourage flexible working so you choose when you start and finish. Slack is one of our collaboration tools to help share information on what our teams are doing. You could even join the #coffee_buddies Slack channel to be matched up with someone for a face to face coffee. So whats it like working at Digital Surgery? Part of the Medtronic family we benefit from a small company feel, within the world's leading medical device company. We have 130 people globally, with teams across the UK, US and Canada. The majority are based in our London HQ in Old Street. The company is made up of several teams covering Engineering, Product, Studio, Innovation, Marketing, HR, Operations, Finance and Sales. We care about our employees career and development, offering training internally as well as external courses and attending global conferences. We believe that helping you grow will help our company grow too. We have our Family Meeting on Friday afternoons with beer, wine and cold drinks - its a great chance to meet new joiners, share success stories and hear whats been going on in the company that week. The Office We have a really open plan office, think New York loft styl

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