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Staff Software Engineer - Data Platforms

London, England, United Kingdom💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-24 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and build shared engineering capabilities and scalable data platforms to process large volumes of sensitive health and genetic data for health research.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Data Platforms)

Builds

Scalable, reusable engineering tooling, data pipelines, and secure analytics systems for health research.

Domain

Health technology / Data Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Cloud engineering (Azure/AWS/GCP), Python, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Spark, Databricks, relational databases (PostgreSQL), CI/CD, observability (Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic), data modeling.

Preferred skills

Orchestration tools (Dagster, Prefect, Airflow), health data models (FHIR, OMOP, PCORnet, i2b2, CDISC), genetic/clinical data experience.

Technologies

Azure, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Python, Spark, Databricks, PostgreSQL, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Dagster, Prefect, Airflow, Git, GitHub.

Responsibilities

Guide technical decisions and architecture for data platforms; lead critical technical strategy implementations; perform high-impact hands-on engineering; integrate partner systems; mentor and coach engineers; support live operations and incident response; identify and solve pipeline problems.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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