Data Engineer, Our Future Health
Bioinformatics
£51-60k
Office located in Holborn, London
Health research programme
Open for applications
Health research programme
201-500 employees
Open for applications
£51-60k
Office located in Holborn, 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
- You will have a solid understanding and experience of bioinformatics, in particular tools and methods associated with genomic data
- Experience of working in an agile development team following best practices like code review and pairing
- Familiar with version control and Git/GitHub
- Able to design, build and test pipelines using a range of different technologies. You will know how to create repeatable and reusable products
- Experience with storing, searching and filtering large scale genomic data
- Good understanding of cloud environments (ideally Azure), distributed computing and scaling workflows and pipelines
- Proficient in Python
- Experience of workflow management tools, e.g. Nextflow, WDL/Cromwell, Airflow, Prefect, Dagster)
- Understanding of common data transformation and storage formats, e.g. Apache Parquet
- Experience of working with data lakes; experience with Spark, Databricks
- Understanding of containerisation, e.g. Docker
- Awareness of data standards such as GA4GH and FAIR
- Understanding and working knowledge of information governance and data security approaches appropriate for sensitive health data
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Data Engineer to help solve some of the key challenges around a programme of work at industrial scale with global significance
- The successful Data Engineer will know how to communicate to and between technical and non-technical stakeholders as well as facilitate discussions within a multidisciplinary team including scientists, software engineers, product managers and other data engineers
- You will be contributing towards the delivery of data releases that will be used worldwide and will have experience with genetic data
- You’ll be part of a multidisciplinary team that’s creating pipelines that didn’t exist before, owning them in production and improving them over time
- Supporting the build of data pipelines from data providers to our primary data store and trusted research environment
- Producing logic for data transformation steps as code, which meets the requirements for our end users and builds well curated, accessible and quality controlled data for analysis
- Developing prototypes for pipelines for complex transformations drawing on existing workflows developed in industry and academia
- Keeping abreast of best practice in data engineering across industry, research and Government and facilitating the adoption of standards
- Providing technical input into the upstream parts of the data pipeline, including the specification and transfer of data from data providers
- Routine ad-hoc data curation activities requiring hands on development of bespoke ETL cleaning scripts using languages such as Python
- Working with researchers to understand the data requirements and working with them to deliver the data needed for their projects
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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