Staff Analytics Platform Engineer
Job Summary
Were looking for a Staff Analytics Platform this role you will shape the architecture reliability and future direction of the analytics platform that powers trusted highquality insight across Our Future Health.
As a Staff Analytics Platform Engineer youll provide technical leadership across the entire analytics platform from ingestion and transformation tooling to Snowflake architecture semantic modelling and secure analytics environments. Youll define the patterns standards and infrastructure that enable analysts data scientists and product teams to build reliable scalable analytics with confidence. This is a role where your decisions shape the platform for years to come and your impact multiplies across every team that uses data.
At Our Future Health our mission is to transform the preventiondetectionand treatment of conditions such as dementia cancer diabetes heart disease and stroke. Were looking for people to join us on our journey. If youre looking for a new challenge where you can contribute to helping future generations live in good health for longer then were keen to speak with you.
What youll be doing
- Coowning the analytics platform architecture designing endtoend solutions across Snowflake ingestion pipelines dbt infrastructure semantic layers and secure analytics environments.
- Defining and driving the longterm technical vision for the analytics platform ensuring it is scalable costefficient secure and easy for data consumers to use.
- Establishing architectural principles and patterns that balance reliability governance usability and performance across the entire data ecosystem.
- Leading highimpact platform initiatives that improve performance developer experience cost efficiency or operational maturity.
- Owning and evolving core platform components including CI/CD testing strategies environment management observability and infrastructure as code.
- Acting as the technical escalation point for complex crosscutting platform issues and guiding teams toward robust scalable solutions.
- Driving Snowflake performance and cost optimisation informed by real workloads and modelling patterns.
- Implementing and maturing data SLAs/SLOs data observability lineage and quality frameworks to ensure trusted analytics at scale.
- Collaborating with data product and engineering teams to enable safe scalable ingestion and welldefined data contracts.
- Influencing how teams design and interact with data systems raising engineering standards across the organisation.
- Providing technical mentorship to analytics engineers and platform engineers helping elevate capability across the data function.
What you wont be doing
- Working in a siloed environment with no freedom to make decisions.
- Working in a place where you cant see the impact your expertise makes.
Requirements
To succeed in this role you will be able to demonstrate some of the following skills and experience:
- Deep experience building and running modern data platforms in complex multiteam environments.
- Excellent Python engineering skills and the ability to design scalable reliable platform components.
- Expertise in analytics data modelling and how modelling choices affect performance cost and usability.
- Handson experience with ingestion/orchestration tooling (e.g. Airbyte) and scaling pipelines across many sources.
- Proven technical leadership across infrastructure ingestion transformation and analytics enablement.
- Strong platform architecture experience: Snowflake dbt execution semantic layers secure analytics environments.
- Ability to diagnose complex crosscutting issues across data infrastructure and analytical workloads.
- A track record of improving developer experience and reducing friction in data development.
- Clear influential communication skills with the ability to align teams around platform strategy.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising capability across data and platform teams.
- Handson dbt and analytics CI/CD experience.
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloudnative environments.
- Familiarity with semantic layers and BI tooling (e.g. Omni).
- Experience supporting secure notebook environments (Coder Jupyter RStudio).
- Comfort working in regulated environments with strong governance and audit needs.
- Knowledge of Terraform data governance models and data observability tooling.
Benefits
- Salary from 95000 per annum.
- Generous Pension Scheme We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%.
- 30 Days Holiday Bank Holidays Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you.
- Enhanced Parental Leave Supporting you during lifes biggest moments.
- Cycle to Work Scheme Save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice.
- Home & Tech Savings Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice
- 1000 Employee Referral Bonus Know someone amazing Get rewarded for bringing them on board!
- Wellbeing Support Access to Mental Health First Aiders plus 24/7 online GP services and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family.
- A Great Place to Work We have a lovely Central London office in Holborn and offer flexible and remote working arrangements.
Join us - letsprevent 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
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About Company
Our Future Health will be the UK’s largest-ever health research programme, designed to help people live healthier lives for longer through the discovery and testing of more effective approaches to prevention, earlier detection and treatment of diseases. We will invite 5 million peopl ... View more