Data Curator

Data Curator is required to join a team working on a large-scale data governance programme and to be responsible for interpreting and structuring complex data, as well as creating interoperable datasets to support scientific research.

You will be responsible for:

• Designing vocabularies, ontologies, and taxonomies, ensuring data is accurate, consistent, and aligned with best practices.
• Curating, profiling, and validating datasets to ensure their quality and usability.
• Maintaining repositories and ensuring ongoing data accuracy.
• Collaborating with scientists, technical specialists, and business teams.
• Supporting training and adoption of data curation tools across the organisation.
• Contributing to process improvements and adapting to automation and AI developments

Required experience and skills:

• Extensive experience in data curation in support of scientific research.
• Knowledge of data standards, ontologies, and taxonomies, and their implementation in centralized repositories.
• Proficiency with wide range of data curation and data governance tools will be beneficial.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience with enterprise data management, and data technologies (databases, data lakes, data warehousing, reporting).
• Familiarity with data quality tools.
• Willingness to occasionally travel to UK-based sites.