Combining both hands-on data science and active involvement in the strategic aspects, this role is responsible for the technical and scientific direction of our data platform. This work underpins our patient engagement software product and creates a moat around our business, ensuring we remain competitive. 

This position is based in Leeds or remotely in the UK.  

The Role  
The role provides data capabilities to the wider company and ensures data capture and evidence generation is part of the foundations of our product. You will be hands-on in problem solving, algorithmic design and modelling of data to extract and visualise valuable insights for our company and for our users and clients. This role also manages a Data Engineer, who is responsible for data pipeline management & optimisation, integrations, and application management.  

Responsibilities 

• Ownership and leadership for Little Journey’s data strategy and implementation of data driven projects. 

• Identify valuable data sources and automate the collection process, embedding this into all Little Journey products 

• Hands-on building of models to address business and product challenges 

• Build and lead an efficient and autonomous data team, with scope to scale Little Journeys capacity. 

• Creating a Data Architecture and tech stack, that aligns with the data roadmap and our product and clients / users’ needs 

• Bringing fresh initiatives by putting the right data tooling in place whilst managing external providers / 3rd parties in a cost-effective way. 

• Security and compliance management 

Immediate Priorities

• Assess and identify the value of the existing data, addressing any gaps that prevent us from achieving our long-term vision (2-3 years). 

• Collaborate with and understand the CEO and CPO’s strategic vision for data and how this relates to Little Journey’s vision. 

6-Month Objectives

• Successfully deliver an initial version of the data pipeline fully integrated into our platform and a data strategy that contributes to our economic moat 

12-Month Objectives

• Leverage the data generated through the pipeline to produce actionable insights. 

• Develop and implement integration plans with third-party systems, such as hospital records, ensuring a comprehensive strategy is in place. 

Requirements

Must haves

• MSc degree or higher in data science or equivalent, from a leading university 

• Confident in architecting highly efficient, scalable data pipelines. 

• Expertise in Python and associated data science libraries (e.g Scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras...) and modern data pipeline frameworks such as Dagster, dbt for transformation, etc. 

• Strong exposure designing and implementing data science models that have led to competitive advantages for companies  

• Proficiency in leveraging automation tools 

• Used to communicating with non-technical staff such as product manager, clinicians, operational staff and management 

Desirable

• Experience in a health tech start up 
   

Behaviours and Values needed

• Highly collaborative, you love being part of a team 

• Creative and innovative, you can look at a problem from many angles and come up with unique solutions 

• Inquisitive and always learning 

• You take pride in your work 

Benefits

• £90 - 110K salary range, depending on experience
• 28 days annual leave pro-rata (plus public holidays)
• £500 annual training budget
• £200 home working budget
• Flexible working around 9.30 - 4pm core hours
• Company wide meeting free blocks
• Up to 6% pension match and unlimited personal contribution
• Enhanced parental & family leave up to 20 weeks full pay first carer leave
• Friendly and collaborative team who value and respect each other
  
  About Little Journey
  Little Journey was founded in 2018 by Dr Chris Evans and Sophie Copley. As an anaesthetic doctor and father himself, Chris witnessed first-hand the distress experienced by children and families coming to hospital for surgery. Partnering with Sophie, an expert in human-centred product design, they created a prototype version of the Little Journey app to support children undergoing elective surgery.
  
  Since then, the business has accelerated quickly, having been adopted in more than 100 healthcare organisations worldwide. We also partner with leading organisations such as LEGO and top tier pharmaceutical companies. They provide us global access to paediatric services and clinical research, helping us reach more children. We received investment from internationally leading VC funds and are using this to scale further into other markets. Our technology is already available in 16 languages and counting!
  
  Company values
• We collaborate with honesty and integrity
• We are reflective and evolve
• We are forward thinking and proactive, challenging the status quo
• We are fuelled by our passion to help others
• We trust each other to deliver excellence 

Diversity & Inclusion 

We encourage people from all walks of life to apply and strive to eliminate unconscious bias in our recruitment process. We do not discriminate on ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or parental status or disability. We encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply. If you need adjustments made to our application process, to help accommodate any disabilities, please do let us know on