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Our Future Health

UK health data collection for research

Staff Analytics Platform Engineer

Data EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeLondon, UK£95k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • Deep experience building and running modern data platforms in complex, multi-team environments.
  • Excellent Python engineering skills and the ability to design scalable, reliable platform components.
  • Expertise in analytics data modelling and how modelling choices affect performance, cost, and usability.
  • Hands-on experience with ingestion and orchestration tooling, such as Airbyte, and scaling pipelines across many sources.
  • Proven technical leadership across infrastructure, ingestion, transformation, and analytics enablement.
  • Strong platform architecture experience with Snowflake, dbt execution, semantic layers, and secure analytics environments.
  • Ability to diagnose complex, cross-cutting issues across data, infrastructure, and analytical workloads.
  • A track record of improving developer experience and reducing friction in data development.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and raising capability across data and platform teams.
  • Hands-on dbt and analytics CI/CD experience.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native environments.
  • Experience supporting secure notebook environments such as Coder, Jupyter, and RStudio.
  • Comfort working in regulated environments with strong governance and audit needs.
  • Knowledge of Terraform, data governance models, and data observability tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Co-own the analytics platform architecture, designing end-to-end solutions across Snowflake, ingestion pipelines, dbt infrastructure, semantic layers, and secure analytics environments.
  • Define and drive the long-term technical vision for the analytics platform, ensuring it is scalable, cost-efficient, secure, and easy for data consumers to use.
  • Establish architectural principles and patterns that balance reliability, governance, usability, and performance across the data ecosystem.
  • Lead high-impact platform initiatives that improve performance, developer experience, cost efficiency, or operational maturity.
  • Own and evolve core platform components, including CI/CD, testing strategies, environment management, observability, and infrastructure as code.
  • Act as the technical escalation point for complex, cross-cutting platform issues and guide teams toward robust, scalable solutions.
  • Drive Snowflake performance and cost optimisation informed by real workloads and modelling patterns.
  • Implement and mature data SLAs/SLOs, data observability, lineage, and quality frameworks to ensure trusted analytics at scale.
  • Collaborate with data product and engineering teams to enable safe, scalable ingestion and well-defined data contracts.
  • Influence how teams design and interact with data systems, raising engineering standards across the organisation.
  • Provide technical mentorship to analytics engineers and platform engineers, helping elevate capability across the data function.

Desired Qualifications

  • Familiarity with semantic layers and BI tooling such as Omni.

About the Company

Our Future Health

UK health data collection for research

Our Future Health is a UK charity running the country's largest health research programme. It invites up to five million adults to participate by completing a questionnaire and giving a blood sample, with their data linked to health records. This creates a detailed picture of the nation’s health to help researchers find new ways to prevent, detect, and treat diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and dementia. The project combines ethical, practical, and technological work to handle vast amounts of data and develop useful insights. Unlike smaller studies, it aims for large-scale, long-term data collection across the entire population. The ultimate goal is to help future generations stay healthier for longer by guiding better disease prevention and care.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2020

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