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About the Role
This is a senior individual contributor role at the Principal level, responsible for setting technical direction and influencing data engineering strategy across complex, regulated, national-scale clinical and research platforms. You will shape the design, build, and operation of scalable, secure data systems while maintaining a hands-on approach to engineering and leadership.
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and influence data engineering standards across platforms, pipelines, and data products.
- Lead the design and delivery of complex, large-scale data solutions in cloud and hybrid environments.
- Influence architectural direction for enterprise data platforms, including Lakehouse, distributed, and event-driven systems.
- Act as a technical authority across squads to ensure alignment with data engineering standards and architectural principles.
- Collaborate with senior engineers, architects, bioinformaticians, and product teams to guide technical decision-making.
- Ensure all data engineering approaches meet strict governance, privacy, security, and regulatory requirements.
- Drive the adoption of modern engineering practices including DataOps, DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automation, and observability.
- Improve platform resilience, performance, and operational maturity.
- Evaluate and influence the adoption of new tools and technologies.
- Mentor experienced data engineers and influence capability uplift across the organization.
- Contribute to organization-wide technical communities, standards, and design governance.
Requirements
- Proven experience operating at a senior or Principal level in data engineering.
- Strong track record of designing and delivering enterprise-scale data platforms and systems.
- Deep experience with modern data architecture, cloud infrastructure, and scalable data processing systems.
- Strong hands-on programming experience in Python and SQL.
- Strong expertise in data modeling, data lifecycle management, metadata, and governance.
- Experience working in complex regulated environments such as healthcare, genomics, or research.
- Strong understanding of security by design and handling highly sensitive data.
- Proven ability to influence architectural and data engineering direction across multiple teams or domains.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills with experience influencing senior technical and non-technical stakeholders in matrix environments.
- Must pass a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Data Modeling
- Data Governance
- Cloud Infrastructure
- DataOps
- DevOps
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure as Code
- Data Architecture
- Genomics
- Bioinformatics
- Clinical Data Platforms
- GA4GH
- OMOP
- FHIR
- Airflow
- Prefect
- AWS Glue
- Data Mesh
- Lakehouse
Location
- Canary Wharf
- Cambridge
- Leeds
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Principal level
Education Level
- Degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent practical industry experience
- Architecture or data-related certifications (TOGAF preferred)
Salary/Compensations
- From £103,400 pa
Benefits
- 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Additional leave for long service
- Option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually
- Blended and flexible working arrangements
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
- Defined contribution pension with double-matching up to 10%
- Life Assurance (3x salary)
- Give As You Earn scheme
- Individual learning budgets
- Support for training and certifications
- Reimbursement for one annual professional subscription
- Employee recognition programme
- Referral scheme
- Subsidised gym membership
- Free Headspace account
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Eye tests
- Flu jabs
About the Company
- Genomics England is a global leader in enabling genomic medicine and research.
- The company supports the NHS’s national whole genome sequencing service and the National Genomic Research Library.
- Mission to provide evidence and digital systems so that genomics plays a role in up to half of all healthcare interactions by 2035.
- Focus on connecting research and clinical care at a national scale to improve genomic testing and medical discoveries.
Equal Opportunity
- Genomics England is committed to an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion.
- The company does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation, or bullying.
- Policies of non-discrimination and equity are applied regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or employment status.
- The company aims to remove barriers in recruitment and provides adjustments for candidates upon request.