Data Engineer, Thalamos
6 Month Full Time Contract
£55-65k
pro rata for 6 month contract
3+ days a week in office
A unified fully digital mental health crisis pathway revolutionising care in the UK
Job no longer available
A unified fully digital mental health crisis pathway revolutionising care in the UK
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£55-65k
pro rata for 6 month contract
3+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make access to, receipt of and discharge from mental healthcare swifter, simpler and safer.
Role
Who you are
- Strong SQL skills, especially PostgreSQL, and experience writing complex queries
- Experience building and managing data pipelines in production
- Working knowledge of Apache Superset (or similar BI tools like PowerBI, Tableau, Metabase or Looker)
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset with high attention to detail
- A pragmatic approach to designing data solutions in a startup environment
Desirable
- Familiarity with TypeScript and cloud-based infrastructure, particularly AWS (e.g., Aurora / Lambda)
- Experience working with Jira and GitHub as part of agile software development
- Understanding of data privacy, security, and compliance—especially in healthcare or public sector contexts
- Knowledge of or interest in mental health services or NHS operational structures
What the job involves
- This is 6 month full time contract role salary pro rata
- Build and maintain robust PostgreSQL queries and data pipelines to support analytics and reporting on the MHA patient journey
- Ensure data quality and pipeline resilience in production environments
- Work closely with backend engineers to align on architecture and data schema design
- Configure, manage, and evolve our Apache Superset dashboards to surface insights to internal teams and partner organisations (e.g. NHS Mental Health Trusts)
- Build flexible visualisation and report templates that meet the needs of clinical, operational, and compliance stakeholders
- Support internal users (product, client, delivery teams) in interpreting and using the data effectively
- Work with product managers, the client team, and external partners (e.g., NHS, Police) to clarify dashboard/report requirements and iterate on delivery
- Collaborate in our existing Jira + GitHub development process and contribute to a transparent, well-documented workflow
- Operate within a TypeScript / AWS backend environment and bring experience that complements this stack
- Uphold and improve data engineering best practices: version control, testing, documentation, and review processes
- Help define and maintain consistent naming conventions, metric definitions, and access controls
Application process
- Introductory Call
- Skills Exercise
- Meet The Team
Salary benchmarks
Our take
When a close friend of the founder was sectioned under the Mental Health Act (MHA), he couldn't believe that an emergency care pathway was managed by moving around paper forms. He was further shocked that access to treatment would be delayed while he waited for a set of forms to be circulated and eventually 'signed off'. Thinking there must be a more empathetic and efficient way of assessing and treating an individual in crisis, Arden and Ross decided to found Thalamos.
Thalamos was developed through a combination of focus group research, lived experience, and consultations with mental health professionals. It harnesses technology to face the digital challenges posed to mental healthcare. Its team builds and deploys software solutions to improve outcomes in the assessment and treatment of Mental Illness. It supports clients in the coordination of urgent care across organisations and geographies, including the NHS, Social care, the CQC, private healthcare providers, and police services. Thalamos deploys intuitive, joined-up solutions across complex and disparate medico-legal pathways spanning multiple organisations to deliver high-quality data for mental health services.
Thalamos software is currently in use across England by NHS Trusts, Social Care and Policing teams in London, Dorset and the North West, with British Transport Police and the CQC working nationally. Designed by a team of software and medical experts, Thalamos is driven to improve mental health outcomes for both patients and professionals, delivering an end-to-end acute care pathway that's swifter, safer and simpler to navigate.
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Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Take on responsibilities and own tasks from day 1. Whatever part of the business you're interested in, there will be opportunities to get involved...."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2022
$1m
SEED
May 2021
$0.6m
ANGEL
Total funding: $1.8m
Company values
- Ambition: Motivated to constantly improve, professionally & personally. Not willing to accept the status quo and always seeking to identify ways to make things better. Willing to take on problems with no clear answer, even if it seems daunting. Able to define success and driven to achieve it.
- Authenticity: Honesty and humility regarding yourself and your abilities. A level of introspection such that you are able to recognise your own drivers, motivators and “blind spots”. A level of confidence that allows you to understand your strengths, but also areas where you need support from your team. Ability to “be yourself” irrespective of who you are communicating with, whether that is the most senior or junior person internally or externally.
- Getting the Job Done: A willingness to take responsibility, solve problems, navigate complexity and find a way to achieve a shared goal. Motivated by defined goals and can be creative in ways to reach them. Willing to be selfless and places more importance on achieving the goal than personal recognition.
- High Performance Team: Places the success of the team above the success of an individual. Invests time in colleagues and understands that the highest performing teams consist of people with different skills and attributes. Approaches challenges without ego, is pragmatic where improvements are required and continually works to build communication and trust amongst colleagues. Respects other people’s time, views and experiences.
- Social Impact: A genuine interest in identifying ways to improve things for other people. An implicit understanding that lasting and meaningful change is best achieved by delivering tangible outcomes.
Company HQ
SE1, London, UK
Leadership
Ross Tomison
(Co-Founder & COO)Prior to co-founding Thalamos in 2018, Ross was an Investigator at Financial Ombudsman Service and a Recovery Officer at the Warrington Borough Council. They graduated from the University of Birmingham with a Bachelor of Arts in Ancient History.
Arden Tomison
(Co-Founder & CEO)Arden is a Development Partner at MQ. Previously they were a Director at Marble Hill Partners for over 10 years. They were also a Yacht Racing Navigator for nearly 13 years.
People progressing
Formally a professional handball player, Mette moved to London after finishing their Masters degree. They joined Thalamos in 2021 as a Product Manager, moving into the role of Senior Product Manager in 2023 and their current role of Head of Product in 2025.
Elspeth joined Thalamos in 2022 as a Programme Manager, they then moved into the role of Senior Programme Manager in 2023 and now serve as the Head of Transformation.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Thalamos
- We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status. Thalamos is values-driven in how it approaches recruitment as we believe this is the best way to establish a diverse team united by common values to make positive change together.
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