Overview
We're hiring an Engineering Manager to work with our Genetics Squad. This is a vital role where you'll support scaling our systems to respond to increasing numbers of volunteers and manage multiple engineering teams through a key stage of growth. You will work with Genetic Data (both genotyped and imputed) and support the development and maintenance of pipelines and systems that process data, ensure quality control, and generate data releases for researchers.
If you have previous experience working in a similar role and have worked with Genetic Data, we'd love to see an application from you.
About Our Future Health
Our Future Health is the UK’s largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to detect, prevent and treat diseases. We are a charity, supported by the UK Government, in partnership with charities and industry. We work closely with the NHS and with public authorities across all nations and regions of the UK.
Our plan is 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.
Responsibilities
* Support scaling of systems to respond to increasing numbers of volunteers and manage multiple engineering teams through growth.
* Work with Genetic Data (genotyped and imputed) and support the development and maintenance of pipelines and systems that process data, ensure quality control, and generate data releases for researchers.
* Collaborate with Scientists, Software Engineers, Product Managers, and other stakeholders across multidisciplinary teams.
* Translate business and technical needs, manage expectations, and lead challenging conversations with senior stakeholders.
* Participate in Agile development practices (GitHub, code reviews, unit tests, TDD, CI/CD) and coach engineers in a successful, cross-functional team.
* Ensure information governance and data security approaches appropriate for sensitive health data.
* Oversee operation of software components and services post-launch, including observability, logging, error reporting, debugging, and live incident management using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and New Relic.
* Contribute to designing and deploying robust data schemas and scalable pipelines for large-scale data processing.
* Hands-on coding skills in Python and Bash when needed.
* Experience with data lakes and tools like Spark, Databricks; cloud environments (ideally Azure); and workflow managers (Dagster, Airflow, Prefect).
* Containerisation and deployment experience (Docker, Kubernetes).
* Experience working with external data suppliers, including defining requirements, SLAs, and participating in joint discussions.
Qualifications
* Proficiency in JIRA (building/maintaining boards, timeline views, sprint metrics, and queries); familiarity with management tools (Asana, Trello).
* Experience working with genetic data (genotyping and/or NGS); familiarity with bioinformatics formats (VCF, pVCF, BGEN) and tooling (bcftools, PLINK).
* Experience designing and deploying complex data schemas.
* Experience building and maintaining robust, scalable data pipelines for large data volumes; ability to create repeatable, reusable products.
* Hands-on proficiency in Python and Bash.
* Experience with data lakes, Spark, Databricks.
* Experience in cloud environments (ideally Azure) and workflow management systems (Dagster, Airflow, Prefect).
* Containerisation (Docker) and deployment (Kubernetes).
* Experience working with external data suppliers and defining requirements and SLAs.
Benefits
* Competitive base salary
* Generous Pension Scheme – employer contributions up to 12%
* 30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays
* Enhanced Parental Leave
* Career Growth & Development – £500 per year on Learnerbly plus appraisals
* Cycle to Work Scheme
* Home & Tech Savings – up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products
* £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus
* Wellbeing Support – Mental Health First Aiders, 24/7 online GP, EAP for you and family
* A Great Place to Work – Central London office in Holborn with flexible and remote working
Join us - let’s prevent disease together.
We advise not delaying your application, as this advert may close early if a high number of applications are received.
At Our Future Health, we recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates, regardless of their background, have equitable access to our application process. We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability, neurodiversity, or long-term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of their application process.
If you do require any reasonable adjustments, please email us at talent@ourfuturehealth.org.uk
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