We are hiring for a Staff Software Engineer to oversee the architecture of our Participant Data Platform. This is the area of the Our Future Health platform where the various sets of participant data we hold are brought together. This allow us to produce our data products for research along with the other user cases we are developing in the areas of direct health feedback and clinical trials enablement.
In this role you would be supporting the squads who ingest and make available the varying types of data Our Future Health holds. Such as NHS records, genetic data extracted from blood samples participants provide, self-reported questionnaires, and more! In this role, you’ll own the overall architecture for this area of the system.

ABOUT US

Our Future Health will be 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.

REQUIREMENTS

To be successful in this role you will need experience with some of the following:

Technical skills

• You have led the architectural design of systems.
• Knowledge and experience of building backend systems for data movement, processing and storage and provision of services for allowing access to data by non-technical users, using technologies such as Dagster, Prefect, Airflow, Databricks, Spark.
• Understanding of typical methods of access control to data and systems.
• Prior experience with Azure (ideally), AWS or GCP and Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
• Comfortable working with Infrastructure as Code, ideally with knowledge of Terraform.
• Knowledge of good data modelling and design patterns; in-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and familiarity other types of data store (blob, document, graph).
• Expertise in modern, agile development practices like code review, TDD, CI/CD and pairing using tools like Git and GitHub.
• Experience of operationally managing software components once live, including; observability, logging, metrics, error reporting, debugging and live incident management.
• Experience of working with sensitive personal data.

Please refer the Job description for details