Data Engineer
Our Future Health
Data Engineer
Our Future Health
UK health data collection for research
Our Future Health · London, United Kingdom (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-16
Salary: From GBP 62,000
Workplace: hybrid
Department: Technology
We're creating a data platform that enables cutting-edge health research at unprecedented scale. As a Data Engineer, you'll play a critical role in designing and building the secure, high-quality data pipelines that power research used by scientists and healthcare innovators around the world.
This is an opportunity to work with some of the UK's most valuable health datasets, transforming complex requirements into robust, secure, and scalable data solutions. While technical excellence is important, success in this role is defined by your ability to build pipelines that are reliable, compliant, and secure when handling sensitive health data.
You'll work closely with Engineering Managers, Lead Data Engineers, researchers, and domain experts to deliver data products that make a real-world impact. We're looking for a Data Engineer who can take a design or architecture document, understand the intent behind it, and confidently build a secure, scalable solution. You don't need experience with every tool in our stack. We're far more interested in engineers who understand good data engineering principles, can design secure pipelines, and can translate technical requirements into reliable solutions.
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
What you won’t be doing
To succeed in this role you will need to demonstrate some of the following skills and experience:
Many Data Engineering roles focus primarily on building pipelines. This role is different. Here, the greatest challenge is ensuring that every pipeline is secure, governed, auditable, and trustworthy. You'll be working with sensitive health data that has the potential to transform research outcomes, making security, quality, and engineering judgement just as important as technical delivery.
If you're an engineer who enjoys solving complex data problems, questioning assumptions, and building secure systems that make a meaningful difference, we'd love to hear from you.
Join us - let’s prevent disease together.
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 [email protected]
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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.
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