Staff Engineer (Architect) Researcher Operations

Our Future Healthis an ambitious collaboration between the public charity and private sectors designed tohelp people live healthier lives for longer through better prevention earlierdetectionand improved treatment of diseases. We will speed up the discovery of new methods of early disease detection and the evaluation of new diagnostic tools to helpidentifyand treat diseases earlywhen outcomes are usually better. With over 2.5M volunteers across the UKwerenow the worlds biggest health researchprogrammeof its kind and our volunteer group is also more diverse than other similar health researchprogrammes.

Technology and data are central to our systems power websites clinics across the UKsecureanalyticsand researchsystemspipelines thatprocesshighly sensitivehealthand geneticdata and we are continuing to grow our engineering capability to support this ambition.

We are looking for a Staff Engineer (Architect) to own the high-level design of our researcher operations systems. As Our Future Health moves to expand its researcherofferingwe need to build andoperatenew systems related to acquiring researchers onboarding them taking them through the study application process and maintaining our relationship with them.

The role will require working with other functions at Our Future Health such as Finance Customer Support and we expect it to involve a mixture of bespoke building of select components alongside configuration and integration of SaaS products like CRM ticketing support and email comms systems. Where we build our owncomponentsyou will work with product development squads to define the design and requirements for thecomponentand then support the squad as they build it.

The researcher onboarding and study application processes are vitally important to Our Future Health since they form our implementation of two principles from the Five Safes framework for safe research access to data - safe people and safe projects.

As well as the responsibilities specific to the researcher operations area as a member of the Architecture team you will also play a key role in general architecture activities at Our Future Health - working with other engineers to guide the wider platform design work on cross-platform projects which add new platform-side capabilities represent technology in the early stages of future projects and so on.

Responsibilitiesinc-

Day to day work will vary depending on what your focus is at that time but will include things like:

• Represent technology/architecture/engineering in cross-functional project teams throughout a projects lifecycle (from ideation to implementation).Work within the team toidentifyoptimalsolutions for challenges communicate them outwards to stakeholders and work with others to implement them.
• Work with your peer staff engineers and Head of Engineering to act as a guiding mind for theengineering/architecturein your business for improvement and work with other leaders to implement.
• Lead decision-making on critical technical strategy and implementations which affect your business area.
• Identifyopportunities for and then carry out specific pieces of high-impact hands-on work where it makes sense.
• Work with partners and suppliers to integrate their systems with Our Future Healths.
• Support your colleagues withpairing peer reviews coaching discussion and other collaborative activities that help everyone reachhigh standardsand result in the delivery of high-quality software products.
• Contribute to the reliability resilience and ongoing evolution of critical research platform services and live systems whererequired.

We welcome applications from all who may not feel they match the full criteria so if you have most of the belowwedlike to hear from you:

Technical Skills

• You have led the architectural design of systems.
• Experience of configuring and integrating off-the-shelf SaaS systems with bespoke web and backend applications via APIs event-driven architectures etc.
• Appreciation of the balance between build and buyexperience of weighing up pros and cons tomake a selectionwhich will fit into the wider organisations systems and meet the needs of organisational internal users and goals.
• Knowledge and experience of building cloud-hosted consumer web applications and backend services usingopen sourcetechnologies such as Ruby on Rails Python in a start-up or scale-up environment.
• Prior experience with Azure (ideally)AWSor GCP.
• Comfortable working with Infrastructure as Code ideally with knowledge of Terraform.
• Knowledge of good data modelling and design patterns; in-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and familiarity other types of data store (blob document graph).
• Expertisein modern agile development practices like code review TDD CI/CD and pairing using tools like Git and GitHub.
• Experience of operationally managing software components once live including; observability logging metrics error reportingdebuggingand live incident management.
• Experience of working with sensitive personal data.

Competencies

• Experience working in/with cross-functional teams consisting of engineers product UX and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to communicate with stakeholders and audiences atdifferent levels.
• Understanding of the importance of operational security and legal factors when designing solutions with the ability to articulate trade-offs and make informed decisions around design and technology choices.
• Experience working in small growing organisations with a high degree of ambiguity where flexibility is valued.
• Strong understanding of software quality principles and practices.
• Experience in mentoring and coaching less experienced engineers.
• Comfortable infacilitatingtechnical discussions encouragingcollaborationand providing direction.

• Competitive base salary from 105000
• Generous Pension Scheme We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%
• 30 Days Holiday pro rata 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
• EV Scheme Save up to 40% on a brand new electric vehicle all-inclusive package 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 AssistanceProgrammefor 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.

We recommend you apply as soon as possible as occasionally due to high volumes ofapplicationswe need to close our postings early.

At Our Future Health werecognisethe importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates regardless of their background haveequitableaccess to our application process. We proactively encourage applicants who identify as havinga disability neurodiversity or long-term health conditions to let us know if theyrequireany reasonable adjustments as part of their application process.

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