Engineering Manager, Our Future Health

Salary not provided

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

Airflow

Azure

Spark

Prometheus

Grafana

Trello

Asana

Senior and Expert level

London

Office located in Holborn, London

Health research programme

Open for applications

Health research programme

201-500 employees

HealthcareB2CB2BCharitySocial ImpactMedTech

Open for applications

Salary not provided

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

Airflow

Azure

Spark

Prometheus

Grafana

Trello

Asana

Senior and Expert level

London

Office located in Holborn, London

201-500 employees

HealthcareB2CB2BCharitySocial ImpactMedTech

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.

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Who you are

We don't expect you to have experience with every single point but to be successful in this role you'll need to have experience of some of the following:
Comfortable communicating across technical and non-technical teams – from engineers and scientists to product managers and business stakeholders
Skilled at managing different perspectives and facilitating productive, cross-disciplinary discussions
Able to interpret technical and business needs, manage expectations, and handle challenging conversations with senior stakeholders
Experienced in Agile development practices: GitHub, code reviews, unit testing, TDD, and CI/CD
Proven track record of line managing and coaching engineers in high-performing, cross-functional teams
Strong understanding of information governance and data security, especially for sensitive health data
Hands-on experience managing live software services, including observability, logging, error reporting, debugging, and incident management (Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic)
Highly proficient in JIRA: sprint boards, timelines, metrics, custom queries, ticket standards, and alerts; familiar with Asana, Trello, etc
Skilled in designing and deploying complex data schemas and building scalable, efficient data pipelines for large datasets
Expert in Python and Bash scripting
Experienced with data lakes and big data tools like Spark and Databricks
Proficient in cloud environments (especially Azure) and workflow orchestration tools (Dagster, Airflow, Prefect)
Confident with containerisation and deployment using Docker and Kubernetes
Worked directly with external data suppliers – setting requirements, defining SLAs, and managing relationships
Bonus: Familiar with healthcare and/or genetic data (NHS data, patient-reported outcomes, claims, public health data, genotyping, NGS)

What the job involves

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to join our Data Team, this is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys leading and supporting a growing team.
As we scale our systems to respond to increasing numbers of volunteers, broader coverage across the UK, higher data volumes and more variety of data and research usage ramping up, we need to scale our engineering activity.
The Engineering Manager role is a crucial part of Our Future Health’s scaling plans and will enable multiple engineering teams to grow and work in parallel on different data systems and data products

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

Glassdoor (3.7)

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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 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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