Principal Engineer

• Work alongside product managers squad engineers bioinformaticians and other subject matter experts to continuously evolve a roadmap for change.
• Be the voice of technical excellence in any conversation ensuring that the functional safety and operational characteristics of our products are continuously improving.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends and incorporate them into our software development practices.
• Contribute to the wider conversation at Genomics England and help mature our technical practices.

Qualifications :

While we recognise the value of relevant qualifications or certifications we are primarily interested in your realworld experience.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Excellent software engineering skills and awareness of software design patterns (Python and Typescript/React preferred polyglot ideal)
• Experience shaping and guiding architectural choices both tactical and longterm strategic direction
• Experience of both database and API schemadesign and evolution
• DevOps experience (CI/CD Infrastructure as Code operational monitoring and alerting)
• Experience in at least one major public cloud (AWS preferred but not essential)
• Strong interpersonal skills with a temperament that builds trust and connection within and across squads through open honest communication
• Comfortable engaging responsively with teams both remotely and in person when required
• Ability to navigate rapidly to effective solutions through engaged and inclusive listening clarity of thought clear documentation and succinct presentation

Desirable Experience

These skills are not essential but if you have any of them they may be an indicator that you would be well prepared to hit the ground running:

• Background in healthcare or bioinformatics
• Experience in regulated environments
• Experience building rich user interfaces that present complex information using modern tools and visualisation libraries
• Experience ingesting transforming and indexing large complex data sets

If youre an experienced technologist who thrives on fostering collaboration to deliver positive outcomes wed love to hear from you. Join us at Genomics England and make a meaningful impact in the world of genomics.

Additional Information :

Salary from: 103500            

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself but in order to support our people were continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals as well as offering a benefits package including: 

• Generous Leave: 30 days holiday plus bank holidays additional leave for long service and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
• FamilyFriendly: Blended working arrangements flexible working enhanced maternity paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
• Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England doublematches up to 10 however you can contribute more if you wish) Life Assurance 3x salary) 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).
• Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition 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 opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace 

Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability ethnicity gender gender identity religion sexual orientation or social background. 

Genomics Englands policies of nondiscrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people regardless of age disability gender identity or reassignment marital 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 parttime or employed under a permanent or a fixedterm contract or any other relevant factor.  

Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination harassment victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary toour virtues undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity respect and integrity of all parties.  Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity. 

We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process we encourage you to discuss this with us. 

Blended working model

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring. We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month. However this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to however some of our roles require full time on site attendance e.g. lab teams reception team. 

Our teams and squads have and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit beyond the minimum. Our office locations are: Canary Wharf Cambridge and Leeds.

Onboarding background checks

As part of our recruitment process all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.  We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.