Research Software Engineer

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The NHS holds one of the world’s richest health datasets, yet much of its value remains locked within secure environments. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is addressing this challenge by building secure, privacy-preserving research infrastructure that enables high-impact research without moving or exposing sensitive data.

We are seeking a Research Software Engineer to support the technical delivery of secure data interoperability platforms across regional and national research networks. The post holder will play a hands-on engineering role, building software that enables federated analysis, cohort discovery, and advanced analytics within trusted research environments. This role will also contribute to the development of secure Artificial Intelligence and agent-based analytical workflows, supporting next-generation NHS research and operational use cases.

Design, develop, and maintain secure research software to enable federated analysis across distributed health data environments.
Build and extend cohort discovery and feasibility tooling that supports non-disclosive, real-time exploration of datasets.
Develop and deploy software pipelines that enable secure execution of analytical code (R/Python) against OMOP CDM and related datasets.
Support the technical delivery of AI-enabled and agentic workflows within highly governed environments.
Implement containerised solutions using Docker and Kubernetes to ensure reproducible, auditable research environments.
Apply software engineering best practices, including version control, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
Work closely with data scientists, researchers, information governance teams, and external partners to ensure solutions meet governance and security requirements.

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, providing acute and specialist services across multiple sites and working closely with partners across the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System.

The Trust is at the forefront of secure data innovation, developing trusted research environments and federated analytics platforms in collaboration with academic, regional, and national partners. As a teaching hospital and learning organisation, we actively support continuous professional development, open-source collaboration, and the translation of research into real-world clinical and operational impact.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Vishnu V Chandrabalan Job title: Head of Data Science Email address: vishnu.chandrabalan@lthtr.nhs.uk

About the Company

Website: www.elht.nhs.uk Instagram: @ELHT_NHS Facebook: @ELHT.NHS East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) combines two acute care and three community hospitals with a network of community health facilities and nurses to provide Safe, Personal and Effective care for around 750,000 patients each year. Rated 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission in 2016, we provide high quality healthcare services primarily to approximately 530,000 residents of East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen. We employ over 8,000 staff, some o... Know more

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