Staff Engineer – Architect, Researcher Operations

🕒 May 29

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Our Future Health UK

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51 - 200 employees

Our Future Health is the UK’s largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to prevent, detect and treat diseases.Our mission is to create an incredibly detailed picture of the UK population’s health, by recruiting up to five million adult volunteers from across the UK. Each volunteer will be asked to fill out a questionnaire and provide a blood sample that can be linked to their health records. Taken together, the data will present health researchers with a powerful tool to identify new ways of tackling diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and dementia.It's an unprecedented challenge that involves answering questions that have never been asked before – ethical, practical, and technological. And by getting these answers right, we believe Our Future Health will allow future generations to live in good health for longer.We are currently expanding our team and looking for specialists across various fields – people who are motivated by the opportunity of creating something new that will make a difference to society. Click on the Jobs tab above to start exploring our current opportunities.Our Future Health is a registered charity in England, Wales and Scotland.

📋 Description

• Own the high-level design of our researcher operations systems. • Build and operate new systems related to acquiring researchers, onboarding them, taking them through the study application process, and maintaining our relationship with them. • Work with cross-functional teams, such as Finance and Customer Support. • Define the design and requirements for the component and support the squad as they build it. • Represent technology in cross-functional project teams throughout a project’s lifecycle. • Lead decision-making on critical technical strategy and implementations. • Identify opportunities for high-impact hands-on work. • Integrate partner and supplier systems with Our Future Health’s systems. • Support peers with pairing, peer reviews, coaching, and collaborative activities.

🎯 Requirements

• 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 “buy”, experience of weighing up pros and cons to make a selection which will fit into the wider organisation’s systems and meet the needs of organisational internal users and goals. • Knowledge and experience of building cloud-hosted consumer web applications and backend services using open source technologies such as Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Python in a start-up or scale-up environment. • Prior experience with Azure (ideally), AWS or 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). • Expertise in 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 reporting, debugging and live incident management. • Experience of working with sensitive personal data. • Experience working in/with cross-functional teams consisting of engineers, product, UX and non-technical stakeholders. • Proven ability to communicate with stakeholders and audiences at different 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 in facilitating technical discussions, encouraging collaboration and providing direction.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary from £105,000 • 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 life’s 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 • £1,000 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