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Senior Data Engineer - (Genetics) Maternity Cover - 12 months FTC

Our Future Health
City of London
1 week ago
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Overview

We're hiring a Senior Data Engineer (Genetics) to join us on 12 months FTC to support Maternity Cover. This role will be working within our Bioinformatics Team working on genetic data and building pipelines to process, control and create data releasees for Researchers.

Our Future Health is the UK's largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to detect, prevent and treat diseases. We are a charity, supported by the UK Government, in partnership with charities and industry. We work closely with the NHS and with public authorities across all nations and regions of the UK.

Our plan is to bring together 5 million volunteers from right across the UK who will be asked to contribute information to help build one of the most detailed pictures we have ever had of people\'s health. Researchers will be able to use this information to make new discoveries about human health and diseases. So future generations can live in good health for longer.

What You\'ll Be Doing
  • Support the build of production-level data pipelines from data providers to our primary data store and Trusted Research Environment. Work closely with the Lead Data Engineer on key designs and features.
  • Build and maintain pipelines which meet the requirements for our end users and build well curated, accessible and quality controlled data for analysis.
  • Keep abreast of best practice in data engineering across industry, research and Government and facilitate the adoption of standards. Work to promote the adoption of best practises across the squad (unit testing, CI/CD).
  • Work with our Science team and Product to understand the data requirements and work with them to deliver the data needed for their projects.
Requirements
  • Experience in an agile development team.
  • Comfortable building and maintaining robust, scalable and efficient data pipelines that run in the cloud, capable of processing very large amounts of data daily from multiple systems using a range of technologies.
  • Ability to listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders, interpret them, manage stakeholder expectations, write ODPs/RFCs equivalent and drive discussions within the squad, helping the Lead Data Engineer supervise/drive specific initiatives.
  • Strong experience working with genetic data (ideally genotype and imputation data). Knowledge of common bioinformatics file formats (VCF, BAM/CRAM, GTC, FastQ etc) and tools (bcftools, PLINK, QCtools etc).
  • Experience in validating and QC\'ing complex genomic datasets.
  • Highly proficient in Python with solid command line and Unix skills.
  • Experience with cloud environments (ideally Azure), distributed computing and optimizing workflows and pipelines.
  • Experience with data transformation and storage formats, e.g. Apache Parquet, Delta tables.
  • Experience with containerisation (Docker) and deployment (Kubernetes).
  • Experience with Spark, Databricks, data lakes.
  • Strong experience with version control (Git/GitHub).
  • Awareness of data standards such as GA4GH and FAIR principles.
Benefits
  • Competitive salary starting from £74,000
  • Generous Pension Scheme - employer contributions up to 12%
  • 30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays
  • Enhanced Parental Leave
  • Career Growth & Development - £500 per year to spend on Learnerbly, plus regular appraisals and development opportunities
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Home & Tech Savings - up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products
  • £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus
  • Wellbeing Support
  • A Great Place to Work - flexible and remote working arrangements

Join us - let's prevent disease together.

We advise not delaying your application, as this advert may close early if a high number of applications are received.

At Our Future Health, we recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates, regardless of 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


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