Company Description
Genomics England is a global leader in enabling genomic medicine and research, focused on creating a world where everyone benef
its from genomic healthcare. Building on the 100,000 Genomes Project, we support the NHS’s world-first national whole genome sequencing service and run the growing National Genomic Research Library, alongside delivering numerous major genomics in
itiatives. By connecting research and clinical care at national scale, we enable immediate healthcare benef
its and advances for the future.
Our mission is to provide the evidence and dig
ital systems so that by 2035 genomics could play a role in up to half of all healthcare interactions, whilst securing the UK’s pos
ition as the best place to discover, prove and benef
it from genomic innovations.
We are accelerating our impact and working w
ith patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.
Behind the Healthcare and Research outcomes, Genomics England delivers through designing, developing and operating complex healthcare software systems.
We're on the cusp of big changes w
ith the real prospect of genomics becoming the fabric of everyday healthcare through the lifetime - from birth to old age.
Job Description
Data Engineer
Are you a skilled and proven Data Engineer who’s confident and experienced working at scale, across complex data ecosystems? Keen to take ownership of meaningful pipelines, models and tooling in a unique and impactful environment?
At Genomics England, we deal w
ith some of the most complex clinical and genomic data on the planet, and your work will help researchers, clinicians and scientists use that data to improve patient outcomes.
We’re hiring an established Data Engineer who has a proven track record of moving and transforming large volumes of sens
itive healthcare and genomic data, building scalable infrastructure, and enabling high-qual
ity, trustworthy data products.
This is an exc
iting chance to genuinely help modernise and optimise how genomic data is processed and delivered, w
ith genuine real-world impact.
Note - this opportun
ity is aimed at experienced, hands-on Data Engineers, not analytics, reporting or data analysis professionals.
What you’ll be doing:
Designing, building and optimising data pipelines and processing systems
Working w
ith clinical and genomic data at scale, from acquis
ition through to transformation, lineage, metadata capture and de-identification
Confidently using tools like Tableau, Semarchy, Prefect, Aspera and Globus for orchestration, visualisation and secure data transfer
Supporting teams w
ith robust, well-documented data models and infrastructure
Designing and building scalable data solutions in AWS using cloud-first engineering practices, and using best practices across storage, compute and orchestration
Enabling standards in data qual
ity, observabil
ity, testing and automation
Collaborating w
ith product, QA, arch
itecture and engineering teams to build cleanly integrated data services
Contributing to the development of machine learning and visualisation capabil
ities
Helping raise data engineering capabil
ity across the chapter and wider organisationWhat you’ll bring:
Strong experience building data pipelines and large-scale processing systems (ETL/ELT)
Solid hands-on experience w
ith AWS and cloud-first data engineering
Background in life sciences, healthcare or public sector tech delivery
Familiar
ity w
ith healthcare data standards (e.g. OMOP, FHIR, SNOMED, ICD-10)
Excellent knowledge of tools like Tableau, Aspera, Semarchy, Prefect and/or Globus
Strong coding skills (Python preferred), plus experience w
ith CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code
Experienced in supporting data visualisation capabil
ities and enabling trusted data consumption w
ith the abil
ity to communicate insights clearly and effectively
A good understanding of data governance, data modelling and working in regulated environments
Solid grasp of secur
ity, performance and compliance considerations in sens
itive data systemsBonus if you have:
Experience working w
ith genomic or bioinformatics data
Deep familiar
ity w
ith NHS and wider healthcare data ecosystems, including datasets such as Hosp
ital Episode Statistics (HES), National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS), primary care/GP records, prescribing and pathology data
Experience working w
ith healthcare interoperabil
ity and clinical data standards, including FHIR, HL7, EHR/EMR systems, OMOP, SNOMED CT, ICD-10, OPCS-4 and dm+d
Understanding of healthcare data linkage, pseudonymisation, information governance and data qual
ity challenges across clinical and research environments
Experience enabling secondary uses of health data for research, analytics, population health, clinical trials or real-world evidence generation
Familiar
ity w
ith healthcare terminology services, metadata management and clinical coding practices
Experience working w
ith Trusted Research Environments (TREs), secure data platforms or other privacy-preserving analytics environments
This really is an amazing time to join our team, we’re growing, refining how we work w
ith data, and laying the foundations for the next wave of clinical and research innovation.
So, if you’re an experienced Data Engineer ready to apply your strong data skills, experience and passion to something that really matters, we’d love to hear from you!
Qualifications
Ideally, a master’s degree or equivalent experience working in data, biostatistics, informatics or data analysis or engineering.
Add
itional Information
Salary From: £73,300
Closing Date: Tuesday 4th August @ 23:00 (UK time)
Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in
itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benef
its package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benef
its package including:
Generous Leave: 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays, plus add
itional leave for long service, and also the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced matern
ity, patern
ity and shared parental leave benef
its.
Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), an Electric Vehicle salary sacrifice scheme and a Give As You Earn scheme.
Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
Recogn
ition & Rewards: Employee recogn
ition programme and referral scheme.
Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.Equal opportun
ities and our comm
itment to a diverse and inclusive workplace
Genomics England is actively comm
itted to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equ
ity, divers
ity and inclusion best practice both w
ithin our commun
ity and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse commun
ity where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated w
ith respect regardless of any disabil
ity, ethnic
ity, gender, gender ident
ity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.
Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equ
ity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disabil
ity, gender ident
ity or reassignment, mar
ital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.
Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dign
ity, respect and integr
ity of all parties. Our People policies outline our comm
itment to inclusiv
ity.
We aim to remove barriers in our recru
itment processes and to be flexible w
ith our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recru
itment process, we encourage you to discuss this w
ith us.
Culture
We have four key behaviours that represent what we would like Genomics England to feel like and the culture we want to encourage, in order for us to achieve our mission. These behaviours help us all work well together, deliver on our outcomes, celebrate our successes and share feedback w
ith each other. You can read about these and other aspects of our culture here
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