Senior Platform Engineer, Our Future Health
Analytics
Office located in Holborn, Central London
Health research programme
Open for applications
Health research programme
201-500 employees
Open for applications
Office located in Holborn, Central London
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create an incredibly detailed picture of the UK population’s health, by recruiting up to five million adult volunteers from across the UK.
Role
Who you are
- Proficiency in cloud DevOps/platform engineering practices. Azure experience strongly preferred; experience with an additional cloud preferred (AWS or GCP)
- Demonstrable experience coding in Python to production standards
- Experience in building/deploying tools related to data pipelines, ETL processes
- Confident with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and Docker
- Experience designing, supporting, and troubleshooting production systems at scale
- Experience working with software engineering best practices, including unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, and excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills
- Experience implementing continuous integration/deployment tools and practices
- Experience of working in an agile methodology, accustomed to code reviews and pairing
- Ability to adapt, change, and grow quickly as we scale the organization
- Excellent communicator in person, in writing, when presenting, when creating diagrams, specifications, and documentation
- Experience working closely with analysts and scientists on design principles and best practices
- Excellent understanding of database concepts, modeling, SQL, and query optimization
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join the small team designing and building the platforms and systems to support a number of vital functions across Our Future Health
- You'll be instrumental in building and enhancing the main Analytics platform used across the organisation, enabling us to integrate with new data types and sources and also promote good engineering practices within the analytics and science teams
- You'll be helping deliver our mission of enabling cutting edge health research across a cohort of 5 million volunteers
- You'll be working across the entire platform – from recruitment of and ongoing engagement with participants and their data through to enabling research via Trusted Research Environments
- We work in agile, cross-functional teams who follow modern software development practices whilst maintaining our strong guarantees around trust, privacy and security
- Participating in the design and review of platform architecture and design documents
- Working in cross-functional teams that are creating and launching new services
- Working closely with partners or suppliers to consult on integrations and more complex systems
- Working with product managers and other stakeholders to gather requirements, define technical specifications, and develop and implement solutions
- Supporting your colleagues with pairing, peer reviews, coaching, discussion, and other collaborative activities that help everyone reach high standards and result in the delivery of high-quality software products
- Engaging in collaborative sessions towards refining requirements, formulating architectural proposals in support of upcoming initiatives
- Participating in reflective sessions such as retrospectives or incident post-mortems and offering suggestions on how we can improve and help to drive change
- Participating in support rotations that monitor live systems and quickly and effectively reacting to potential incidents and providing support to operations teams such as customer support. This could include being part of an out of hours on-call rotation
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.
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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 values
- We must always be honest and transparent in our intentions and with the people and partners who contribute to this programme.
- We can only achieve our goal by creating new partnerships and ways of working, bringing together people and organisations that can contribute and empowering, encouraging and supporting them to do so.
- We are ambitious and committed to reducing the impact of diseases for everyone.
- For everyone to be able to benefit from this research programme, it is critical that it represents all kinds of people.
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
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Leadership
Andrew Roddam
(CEO, not founder)Was VP Data Strategy and Global Head of Epidemiology for GSK. Before that was the International Head for Amgen's Centre for Observational Research.
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