Senior Data Engineer, Our Future Health
Genetics, Maternity Cover, 12 Months FTC
£74-85.1k
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Office located in Holborn, London
Health research programme
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Health research programme
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
£74-85.1k
More information about location
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
- Experience working in an agile development team
- Comfortable building and maintaining robust, scalable and efficient data pipelines that run in the cloud. Capable of processing very large amounts of data being received daily based on feeds from multiple systems using a range of different technologies
- Can listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders and interpret them, and effectively manage stakeholder expectations. Can write ODPs/RFCs equivalent and drive discussions within the squad and help the Lead Data Engineer supervise/drive specific initiatives of work
- Strong experience working with genetic data (ideally genotype and imputation data). Detailed understanding of common bioinformatics file formats (VCF, BAM/CRAM, GTC, FastQ etc) and accompanying tools (bcftools, PLINK, QCtools etc)
- Experience in validating and QC'ing complex genomic datasets
- Highly proficient in Python with solid command line knowledge and Unix skills
- Highly proficient working with cloud environments (ideally Azure), distributed computing and optimising workflows and pipelines
- Experience working with common data transformation and storage formats, e.g. Apache Parquet, Delta tables
- Strong experience working with containerisation (e.g. Docker) and deployment (e.g. Kubernetes)
- Experience with Spark, Databricks, data lakes
- Highly proficient in working with version control and Git/GitHub
- Awareness of data standards such as GA4GH and FAIR
What the job involves
- We're hiring a Senior Data Engineer (Genetics) to join us on 12 months FTC to support Maternity Cover.
- This role will be working within our Bioinformatics Team working on genetic data and building pipelines to process, control and create data releasees for Researchers
- Support the build of production-level data pipelines from data providers to our primary data store and Trusted Research Environment. Work closely with the Lead Data Engineer on key designs and features
- Build and maintain pipelines which meets the requirements for our end users and builds well curated, accessible and quality controlled data for analysis
- Keep abreast of best practice in data engineering across industry, research and Government and facilitating the adoption of standards. Work to promote the adoption of best practises across the squad (unit testing, CI/CD)
- Work with our Science team and Product to understand the data requirements and work 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.
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
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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