Location: | Oxford |
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Salary: | £38,674 to £49,913 per annum : Grade 7(with a discretionary range to £51,059 per annum) |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 1st August 2025 |
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Closes: | 5th September 2025 |
Job Ref: | 180397 |
Applications are invited for a SQL Developer, to work with the ORCHID Research Platform central data team at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. ORCHID is a large primary care database that works with national agencies, other Universities, and collaborators across the country to deliver world class research and surveillance insights.
The successful applicant will help maintain and develop the ORCHID database, and will produce data extracts and other data outputs contributing to or facilitating research on a range of projects across the department. Responsibilities will include manipulating complex datasets, developing new scripts, views, stored procedures and other related functionalities to make data available to researchers. The individual will also contribute to the development and maintenance of Standard Operating Procedures for data provision, data manipulation and management, archiving and destruction of datasets.
You will hold a relevant Master’s degree (or equivalent work experience), have experience of writing T-SQL queries, and experience of data management of large-scale datasets (ideally using primary and/or secondary care data), amongst other skills.
You will be based in the Gibson Building, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Radcliffe Primary Care Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG as your normal place of work but you may be able to agree a pattern of regular remote working with your line manager.
This post is a maternity cover available for nine months, and is offered full-time.
For further information or to discuss the post please contact Rosalind Goudie: rosalind.goudie@phc.ox.ac.uk.
“Committed to equality and valuing diversity”
Applications for this vacancy are to be made online and you will be required to upload a CV and Supporting Statement as part of your online application. The Supporting Statement should include a cover letter and should also clearly describe how you meet each of the selection criteria listed in the job description. Click here for information and advice on writing an effective Supporting Statement. Please do not attach any manuscripts, papers, transcripts, mark sheets or certificates as these will not be considered as part of your application.
The closing date for applications is 12:00 noon on Friday 5 September 2025.
Interviews are expected to be held during the week commencing 22 September 2025.
Please note: This role will not attract sufficient points to obtain a sponsored skilled worker visa under the points based immigration system, however applications are welcome from candidates who don’t currently have the right to work in the UK, but who would be eligible to obtain a visa via another route.
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