Engineering Manager, Our Future Health
Platforms
$110-126.5k
Office located in London, Holborn
Health research programme
Open for applications
Health research programme
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$110-126.5k
Office located in London, Holborn
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring together 5 million volunteers from right across the UK who will be asked to contribute information to help build one of the most detailed pictures we have ever had of people’s health. Researchers will be able to use this information to make new discoveries about human health and diseases. So future generations can live in good health for longer.
Role
Who you are
- Experience of leading an engineering team in a rapidly scaling environment, including engineers of different skillsets to your own, possibly including other engineering managers
- The ability to mentor and coach engineers, helping them develop their technical and leadership skills
- Technically astute and able to arbitrate technical discussions with the team, with experience as a software engineer
- The ability to understand and break down complex engineering tasks into actionable work items
- The ability to contribute to the code base, and technical discussions your team is dealing with when the need arises
- Experience with agile methodologies and knowledge of how to apply them to get the best out of a team
- Demonstrable experience working with software teams practicing continuous delivery, using infrastructure-as-code and modern DevOps techniques, Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), following best practices like code review and pairing using tools like Git and GitHub
- Experience in hiring, managing and growing platform engineers and finding the right opportunities for them
- The ability to build a people first, collaborative and empathetic environment
- Experience delivering and maintaining consumer web or mobile products,
- Experience working with sensitive personal data; environments with strong security considerations
- Previous experience working as a hands-on engineer
What the job involves
- E’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of 5–8 Platform Engineers in a growing, tech-led organisation where our engineering teams help drive our mission. You’ll bring a strong technical foundation, ideally in DevOps, Platform, or backend, and while hands-on work is minimal, you’ll need to speak the language of engineers and understand how they think and build
- This role blends line management, stakeholder engagement, and strategic delivery. You’ll work closely with our Director of Cloud Engineering and proactively seek out requirements across teams, balancing strong technical opinions with business needs. Our engineers are passionate about what they do and create, your job is to channel that energy into impact
- We work in a lean, agile, incremental way. We're looking for someone who is pragmatic, objective, and focused on using the right tool for the right job. You’ll help the team stay motivated, manage tech debt thoughtfully, and keep sight of the bigger picture as we scale. If this sounds like you, then we want to hear from you
- Leading an engineering team including line management of engineers and their career development, coaching, objective setting and general team happiness
- Working closely with partners or suppliers to consult on integrations and more complex systems
- Leading engineering delivery, working closely with Product Managers, ensuring we are running productive processes with clear lines of communication whilst working on high-value projects and producing high quality software and systems
- Growing the team; hiring great new colleagues, planning for future needs, balancing across permanent staff, contractors and digital agency relationships
- Identifying and implementing new technologies and tools that keep us ahead of the curve
- Championing best practices in platform engineering and DevOps, promoting code quality, security, maintainability, and scalability
- Working collaboratively on the technology roadmap; participating in decisions on platforms and tools; helping shape the software development process
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Millions of people spend too much of their life with poor health, with medical professionals only able to treat diseases when symptoms start to present. But what if later-life diseases could be prevented earlier through a better understanding of public health? Our Future Health is a ground-breaking new study, aiming to collect a blood sample and a short questionnaire from 5 million members of the British public.
One of the two major strands of genomic study in the UK (the other is the Newborn Genomes Program which will be running in parallel), Our Future Health is set to become the largest health research program in the world. With funding from government and the private sector (with particular interest from pharmaceutical investors) it will cement Britain's reputation as a world leader in genomics, and is expected to lead to major advances in the fight against obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other causes of poor health.
Aside from looking for volunteers for the study, Our Future Health is also seeking engineering talent to help build the infrastructure that will gather, analyse and protect the research data. It will be exciting to see how this charity develops and what discoveries emerge from its data in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
131% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Generous company pension package with employer contributions of up to 12%
- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- We have a lovely new office in Holborn, Central London and we offer flexible and remote working arrangements.
- We offer all employees a life assurance policy.
- Training support to help you achieve your potential.
- All employees are covered by a group income protection scheme to support them in the event of long term sickness.
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Raghib Ali
(CEO, CMO & Chief Investigator)Also a Clinical Epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge, an Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, and a Research Professor at New York University Abu Dhabi.
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