We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join the small team designing and building the platforms and systems to support a number of vital functions across Our Future Health. You'll be instrumental in building and enhancing the main Analytics platform used across the organisation, enabling us to integrate with new data types and sources and also promote good engineering practices within the analytics and science teams.
You'll be helping deliver our mission of enabling cutting edge health research across a cohort of 5 million volunteers. You'll be working across the entire platform – from recruitment of and ongoing engagement with participants and their data through to enabling research via Trusted Research Environments. We work in agile, cross-functional teams who follow modern software development practices whilst maintaining our strong guarantees around trust, privacy and security.
At Our Future Health, our mission is to transform the prevention, detection and treatment of conditions such as dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. We’re looking for people to join us on our journey. If you’re looking for a new challenge where you can contribute to helping future generations live in good health for longer, then we’re keen to speak with you.
What you’ll be doing
- Participating in the design and review of platform architecture and design documents.
- Working in cross-functional teams that are creating and launching new services.
- Working closely with partners or suppliers to consult on integrations and more complex systems.
- Working with product managers and other stakeholders to gather requirements, define technical specifications, and develop and implement solutions.
- Supporting your colleagues with pairing, peer reviews, coaching, discussion, and other collaborative activities that help everyone reach high standards and result in the delivery of high-quality software products.
- Engaging in collaborative sessions towards refining requirements, formulating architectural proposals in support of upcoming initiatives.
- Participating in reflective sessions such as retrospectives or incident post-mortems and offering suggestions on how we can improve and help to drive change.
- Participating in support rotations that monitor live systems and quickly and effectively reacting to potential incidents and providing support to operations teams such as customer support. This could include being part of an out of hours on-call rotation.
What you won’t be doing
- Working in a siloed environment with no freedom to make decisions.
- Working in a place where you can’t see the impact your expertise makes.
You will have experience in some of the following:
- Proficiency in cloud DevOps/platform engineering practices. Azure experience strongly preferred; experience with an additional cloud preferred (AWS or GCP).
- Demonstrable experience coding in Python to production standards.
- Experience in building/deploying tools related to data pipelines, ETL processes.
- Confident with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and Docker.
- Experience designing, supporting, and troubleshooting production systems at scale.
- Experience working with software engineering best practices, including unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, and excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience implementing continuous integration/deployment tools and practices.
- Experience of working in an agile methodology, accustomed to code reviews and pairing.
- Ability to adapt, change, and grow quickly as we scale the organization.
- Excellent communicator in person, in writing, when presenting, when creating diagrams, specifications, and documentation.
- Experience working closely with analysts and scientists on design principles and best practices.
- Excellent understanding of database concepts, modeling, SQL, and query optimization.
- Generous company pension package with employer contributions of up to 12%.
- 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays.)
- Individual development budget
- Flexible and remote working arrangements and a lovely new office in Holborn, Central London.
Join us - let’s prevent disease together.
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What We Do
Our Future Health is the UK’s largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to prevent, detect and treat diseases.
Our mission is to create an incredibly detailed picture of the UK population’s health, by recruiting up to five million adult volunteers from across the UK. Each volunteer will be asked to fill out a questionnaire and provide a blood sample that can be linked to their health records. Taken together, the data will present health researchers with a powerful tool to identify new ways of tackling diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and dementia.
It's an unprecedented challenge that involves answering questions that have never been asked before – ethical, practical, and technological. And by getting these answers right, we believe Our Future Health will allow future generations to live in good health for longer.
We are currently expanding our team and looking for specialists across various fields – people who are motivated by the opportunity of creating something new that will make a difference to society. Click on the Jobs tab above to start exploring our current opportunities.
Our Future Health is a registered charity in England, Wales and Scotland.
