Data Engineer; office locations

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 with 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 sensitive healthcare and genomic data, building scalable infrastructure, and enabling high-quality, trustworthy data products. This is an exciting chance to genuinely help modernise and optimise how genomic data is processed and delivered, with real‑world impact. Note, this opportunity is aimed at experienced, hands‑on Data Engineers, not analytics, reporting or data analysis professionals.

• Designing, building and optimising data pipelines and processing systems
• Working with clinical and genomic data at scale, from acquisition 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 with robust, well‑documented data models and infrastructure
• Building in AWS (cloud‑first), and using best practices across storage, compute and orchestration
• Enabling standards in data quality, observability, testing and automation
• Collaborating with product, QA, architecture and engineering teams to build cleanly integrated data services
• Contributing to the development of machine learning and visualisation capabilities
• Helping raise data engineering capability across the chapter and wider organisation

• Strong experience building data pipelines and large‑scale processing systems (ETL/ELT)
• Solid hands‑on experience with AWS and cloud‑first data engineering
• Background in life sciences, healthcare or public sector tech delivery
• Familiarity with 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 with CI/CD and infrastructure‑as‑code
• Proven skills in data visualisation and statistical analysis, with the ability to communicate insights clearly and effectively
• A good understanding of data governance, data modelling and working in regulated environments
• Solid grasp of security, performance and compliance considerations in sensitive data systems

• Experience working with genomic or bioinformatics data
• Knowledge of machine learning pipelines and product ionising ML models

Ideally, a master’s degree or equivalent experience working in data, biostatistics, informatics or data analysis or engineering.

• Salary From: £73,200
• Closing Date:
  Tuesday 4th August @ 23:00 (UK time)

• Generous Leave: 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
• Family‑Friendly:
  Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
• 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).
• 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…