Our Future Health Limited

We are looking for a Platform Engineer who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure and software engineering. You're someone who loves solving complex problems, writing clean code, and building scalable systems that make a real-world impact. We're looking for passionate technologists with a solid grounding in infrastructure and a strong bias toward software engineering best practices. If you've worked with containerisation (Kubernetes), cloud platforms (any flavour), and tools like Go, Ruby, Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt or Pulumi, we want to hear from you. This isn't just about building new things. You'll be enhancing and maturing one of thelargest health data platforms in the world, driving improvements, fixing bugs, and supporting a system that truly matters. You'll be hands-on with infrastructure-as-code, GitOps workflows, and engineering best practices like unit testing, code reviews, and design documentation. These systems will include but not limited to the participant-facing websites, import and processing of high-volume health, NHS and genetic datasets to the de-identification/sharing of data into accredited Trusted Research Environments (TREs). At Our Future Health, our mission is to transform the prevention,detectionand treatment of conditions such as dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. We're looking for people to join us on our journey. If you're looking for a new challenge where you can contribute to helping future generations live in good health for longer, then we're keen to speak with you. What you'll be doing Working across cross-functional teams launching new services and integrating complex systems with partners. Working closely with product managers to shape solutions from idea to implementation. Day to day support of feature development, tech debt removal, and platform improvements, all while supporting a culture of high standards through pairing, peer reviews, and coaching. Contributing to architectural planning, retrospectives, and incident reviews, helping drive meaningful change. You'll also take part in support rotations, including out-of-hours on-call, ensuring our systems stay reliable and responsive. Being a part of wider engineering initiatives that shape how we work and grow as a community. What you won't be doing Working in a siloed environment with no freedom to make decisions. Working in a place where you can't see the impact your expertise makes. Experience High proficiency in cloud DevOps/platform engineering and large-scale live services. Azure, AWS or GCP. Hands-on experience developing infrastructure-as-code with tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Pulumi following GitOps practices. Excellent experience coding and automating tasks in a high-level language, preferably Python. Hands-on experience working directly with software engineering best practices: unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, excellent debugging, troubleshooting skills. Experience in building/deploying tools related to data pipelines, ETL processes. Confident with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, Docker. Experience deploying open-source technologies such as Python, Node.JS, Ruby, Postgres and related CI/CD pipelines. Good understanding of cloud security best practices and security compliance. Experience designing, supporting and troubleshooting production systems at scale. Good understanding of technology stacks from networks up to applications. Experience of working in an agile methodology; used to code reviews and pairing. Salary from £60,000 per annum. We are interested in applications from people with a range of experience for this role. 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 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 £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. Join us - let'sprevent 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

We're hiring 2x Senior Software Engineers to join our Participant squad. In this role, you'll help design, build, and run the systems that support people through their journey with us to becoming what we term a full participant whereby they have completed our Health and Lifestyle questionnaire and undertaken an appointment where we collect physical measurements and a blood sample. Our Future Health will be the UK's largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to detect, prevent and treat diseases. We are a charity, supported by the UK Government in partnership with charities and industry. We work closely with the NHS and with public authorities across all nations and regions of the UK. Our plan is to bring together 5 million volunteers from right across the UK who will be asked to contribute information to help build one of the most detailed pictures we have ever had of people's health. Researchers will be able to use this information to make new discoveries about human health and diseases. So future generations can live in good health for longer. To support your application you'd need to have experience with the following areas: Strong knowledge of Typescript and Node.js. Knowledge and experience of building cloud-hosted consumer web applications, backend services, or data products. Prior experience with Azure (ideally), AWS or GCP. Comfortable working with Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform. Experience with Kubernetes is a plus. 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). Good experience in using 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. Competitive salary starting from £85,000 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 life's biggest moments. Career Growth & Development - £500 per year to spend on Learnerbly, our learning platform, plus regular appraisals and development opportunities. 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 £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. Join us - let'sprevent disease together. We advise not delaying your application, as this advert may close early if a high number of applications are received.

We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join our Data Team. This is a crucial position that will enable us to achieve project deliverables this year. You'll support our Genetic Data Squad, looking at withdrawals, supporting pipeline development and maintenance to support our imputed releases. If you're looking for a new challenge, have experience working with genetic data and want to support our goals, then we'd like to see your application. Our Future Health will be the UK's largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to detect, prevent and treat diseases. We are a charity, supported by the UK Government, in partnership with charities and industry. We work closely with the NHS and with public authorities across all nations and regions of the UK. Our plan is to bring together 5 million volunteers from right across the UK who will be asked to contribute information to help build one of the most detailed pictures we have ever had of people's health. Researchers will be able to use this information to make new discoveries about human health and diseases. So future generations can live in good health for longer. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Responsible for several interacting data pipelines/flows, ensuring these meet the user, business and technical requirements that have been prioritised. Leading hands-on development of new features, including features to support the deployment of data pipelines at scale (setting up access control configurations, deploying new clusters, building and maintaining databases, deploying database replicas and more). Be able to create MVP development environments and prototype pipelines that can quickly and effectively demonstrate a potential solution. Where possible these would draw on existing workflows developed in industry and academia. Anticipate problems that could occur with pipelines and take action to prevent them. Identify and describe problems when they occur and be able to develop solutions that address them for the short and long term. Provide technical leadership to other engineers, setting standards and helping other people to meet them. Support effective multidisciplinary working with other teams, helping teams understand the role of software engineering in Our Future Health and how to work effectively together. Keep abreast of best practice in software engineering across industry, research and Government, and identify opportunities to bring these into Our Future Health. Though we don't expect you to have experience with each point, to be successful you'll need to have experience working within similar software positions and data. Highly proficient in cloud engineering (preferably in Azure; AWS and GCP). Highly proficient working with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible). Demonstrable knowledge and experience in building solutions centred around moving and processing large amounts of data at pace and scale, using cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm and Docker. Experience with storing, searching and filtering large scale data. Experience in operationally managing software components/service once live, including: observability best practises, logging best practises, error reporting, debugging and live incident management. Experience using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic etc. Highly proficient in Python. Experience in data modelling and design patterns; in-depth knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL) and familiarity with data lakehouse formats (storage formats, e.g. Apache Parquet, Delta tables). Experience with Spark, Databricks, data lakes/lakehouses. Experience working with external data suppliers (defining requirements for suppliers, defining Service Level Agreements, attending joint meetings when needed). Experience working in an Agile development team following best practices including GitHub, code review, unit tests, TDD and CI/CD. Experience leading software projects and developing people and teams from a technical perspective. Benefits: Competitive Base Salary. Generous company pension package with employer contributions of up to 12%. 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Continuous career development with regular appraisals and learning and development opportunities. A lovely new office in Holborn, Central London - we offer flexible and remote working arrangements. Join us - let's prevent disease together.

We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our growing data engineering team at Our Future Health. The Data Engineer will bring an in-depth knowledge of NHS data and data solutions to help solve some of the key challenges around a programme of work at industrial scale with global significance. Our data engineers work with our participant data (including various health records from the NHS, genetic data, Our Future Health's own questionnaires) and build pipelines and systems to process it, control quality and create data releases for researchers. You'll take a lead on developing specific pipelines related to questionnaire and physical measurements data. Our Future Health will be the UK's largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to detect, prevent, and treat diseases. We are a charity, supported by the UK Government, in partnership with charities and industry. We work closely with the NHS and with public authorities across all nations and regions of the UK. What you'll be doing: Your key responsibilities will include but not be limited to: Support the design and building of data pipelines from data providers to our primary data store and trusted research environment, using languages such as Python. Produce logic for data transformation steps as code, which meets the requirements for our end users and builds well curated, accessible, and quality controlled data for analysis. Keep abreast of best practice in data engineering across industry, research and Government and facilitating the adoption of standards. Working with researchers to understand the data requirements and work with them to deliver the data needed for their projects. Communicate to and between technical and non-technical stakeholders as well as facilitate discussions within a multidisciplinary team including scientists, software engineers, product managers and other data engineers. The successful Data Engineer can listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders and interpret them, and effectively manage stakeholder expectations. To succeed in this role, you will also have some of the following skills: Understanding and working knowledge of information governance and data security approaches appropriate for sensitive health data. Detailed knowledge and understanding of NHS data such as hospital administrative data, disease registries or primary care data, and how they can be used to support research. Knowledge of health record coding systems and data standards (e.g., ICD, READ and SNOMED codes). Familiarity with a range of data structures and standards, with experience with OMOP and FHIR being desirable. Experience with the design and deployment of complex data schemas. Experience in validating and cleaning complex datasets. Experience building and maintaining robust, scalable and efficient pipelines capable of processing very large amounts of data from one or multiple systems. You know how to create repeatable and reusable products. Technical requirements: Highly proficient in Python. Experience working with data lakes; experience with Spark, Databricks. Understanding of common data transformation and storage formats, e.g. Apache Parquet. Good understanding of cloud environments (ideally Azure), and workflow management systems (e.g. Dagster, Airflow, Prefect). Follow best practices like code review, clean code and unit tests. Familiar with version control and Git/GitHub. Understanding of containerisation (e.g. Docker) and deployment (e.g. Kubernetes). Benefits: Up to £60,000 per annum basic salary. Generous company pension package with employer contributions of up to 12%. 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays.) Individual development budget. Flexible and remote working arrangements and a lovely new office in Holborn, Central London. Join us - let's prevent disease together.

Our Future Health is looking for a Data Architect with experience of large data architectures who relishes the opportunity to bring their expertise to the world's largest health research programme. The successful Data Architect will challenge and support technical teams to think critically about the right solution for the long-term, while facilitating the pragmatic trade-offs needed to launch products. Our plan is to bring together 5 million volunteers from right across the UK who will be asked to contribute information to help build one of the most detailed pictures we have ever had of people's health. Researchers will be able to use this information to make new discoveries about human health and diseases. So future generations can live in good health for longer. What you'll be doing In this role you will define data architecture for our data, analytics and researcher platforms, setting out at high level what data needs to reside where and why, and how data is managed from collection to use. Your key responsibilities will also include: Oversee the design of multiple data models at a strategic level and have a broad understanding of how each model fulfils the needs of the organisation. Develop principles that guide teams producing data specifications and data models at the level of a system or product, including our data releases for researchers. You provide advice to teams designing lower-level data models, championing consistency, and enabling data to be used for multiple purposes and combined when needed. Partner with technical teams to develop high-level designs and patterns that can be applied across services and platforms, such as how data flows between systems, how data quality is assessed, how data is versioned, and how IDs are managed. You will think ahead to how data might need to be used in future and promote a flexible architecture across all our systems. Respond to problems related to the availability of data for specific use cases, helping teams understand the changes that are needed to our data architecture to enable these. Engage in early-stage discussions with senior leaders and discovery teams about new value streams and products. Detect anti-patterns (e.g. duplicated data, sending data to too many different places, accidentally creating unnecessary dependencies across teams due to modelling decisions), and advocate for work to address these. Develop an architecture that meets data security and data governance requirements, enabling data to be appropriately created, stored, used and deleted across its lifecycle. Identify, understand and balance security, engineering, product, financial, operational and governance considerations related to the design of data-related capabilities, data models, and data flows. You can develop high-level designs that span multiple service and platforms, working in close partnership with technical architects and engineering teams. You will also have some of the following skills and experience: You bring a strengths-based and growth mindset, being willing to learn and support others to do the same. You have extensive specialist knowledge of and ability to provide leadership of all aspects of data platforms, across domains (e.g. back-end systems, analytics platforms, CRMs) and across industry disciplines (e.g. data modelling and design, data quality, master and reference data, data standards, and metadata). You can work with people from a wide range of backgrounds, gathering and responding to feedback on your designs, and gaining buy-in. You can jump into specific issues, supporting the solving of problems in a way that aligns with the long-term direction of travel. You have hands-on engineering experience building scalable, modern data systems in the cloud. You have strong experience of acting as a single point of contact for senior stakeholders and influencers. Ideally, you have experience working with sensitive data or in a regulated environment. Technical Skills: You are a technical leader in data modelling (e.g. dimensional data modelling) ideally with experience of international health informatics specific standards (SNOMED CT, OMOP, FHIR), including bioinformatics (VCFs). You are experienced working with data lakes and data lakehouses. You are familiar with either Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery. You understand distributed computing (Spark) and its implications for data storage. Familiarity with data mesh architecture. You are familiar with a range of cloud-based tools for orchestration, data storage and processing, observability, and analytics. Benefits: Competitive annum basic salary. Generous company pension package with employer contributions of up to 12%. 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Continuous career development with regular appraisals and learning and development opportunities. A lovely new office in Holborn, Central London - we offer flexible and remote working arrangements. Join us - let's prevent disease together.

We are hiring a Senior Data Manager for our growing data team. It's a role with an inspiring set of data challenges, for what will eventually be a comprehensive view of the health of 5 million people in the UK, including directly gathered information, genetics, NHS records, and other linked data. As a Senior Data Manager, you will work collaboratively with data scientists, engineers, and software architects to manage the secure flow of data sets that contain the most detailed picture of human health. In your role, you will ensure that Our Future Health's participants' data is kept safe whilst maximizing its usefulness to researchers. This consists of managing data-related processes and the Airlock, the mechanism that researchers use to import or release material (data, statistical results, software, and tools) to and from our Trusted Research Environment. Running our Airlock in a secure and efficient manner is key to protecting the privacy of participants and helps us achieve our mission by enabling research findings to be disseminated quickly. The Airlock is relatively new, and the Senior Data Manager will be responsible for maturing and scaling the service through automating or contracting out particular steps and proactively keeping up to date with technical advances in this sector. Throughout, your role will ensure the best outcomes for researchers and participants alike, bringing analytical expertise, experience in governance and data security, and great communication skills to manage and support all elements of our Airlock service to the highest standards. As our work develops, there will be other processes that need creating. You will use your expertise and experience in data stewardship and governance to contribute to the wider work of the team; for example, by helping to establish and operationalize efficient, accurate, and resilient transfers of sensitive health data and enabling the use of health data across the world by providing the right information to researchers. This is a varied and hands-on role. Due to the innovative nature of our work, you will often encounter situations that the organization hasn't dealt with before, and you'll be part of the team that thinks through how we design our systems and processes in a way that protects the privacy of our participants, results in high-quality data, and is scalable. You'll be working in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure that approaches are implementable while meeting the requirements of our governance, data protection, and information security teams. While you'll often be solving problems for the first time, it's important for this role to write down the systems and processes you're creating, so that they can be made clear to everyone and can be followed. Our Future Health will be the UK's largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to detect, prevent and treat diseases. We are a charity, supported by the UK Government, in partnership with charities and industry. We work closely with the NHS and with public authorities across all nations and regions of the UK. Our plan is to bring together 5 million volunteers from right across the UK who will be asked to contribute information to help build one of the most detailed pictures we have ever had of people's health. Researchers will be able to use this information to make new discoveries about human health and diseases. So future generations can live in good health for longer. What you'll be doing In this role, you will work in a team of data managers who support each other and collaborate to achieve a range of objectives across data management. Supported by this team, your key responsibilities will include but not be limited to: Airlock Management: Establish and run an effective and timely Airlock service to facilitate import and release of statistical outputs and other materials in line with our disclosure control approach. Provide leadership on scaling and maturing the Airlock service, keeping up to date with technological developments and the use of similar services across other organisations and sectors. Support researchers to use the Airlock service efficiently by assessing their requests, providing feedback, and advising on strategies to reduce disclosure risks. Establish, train, and manage an expert group to support decisions on novel or difficult requests. Work with relevant subject matter experts or champions across Our Future Health and the relevant Boards to help advise on issues related to the Airlock service. Data Management: Manage some processes relating to the data lifecycle within a squad: working with data suppliers to schedule and monitor the timely supply of data in line with data sharing agreements and service level agreements, tracking and improving the quality of data, and overseeing the destruction of data when required. Be a first port of call for questions from research groups about data provenance, definition, quality, and documentation. Facilitate the development of policies, processes, and technical solutions to meet internal requirements relating to technology, data protection, data governance, and information security, as well as external requirements from data suppliers, working with a variety of stakeholders. Work with squads to identify, report, and investigate data quality issues, following agreed data quality incident processes where appropriate. Contribute to relevant governance processes and structures within Our Future Health, including risk, assumption, issue, and dependency management. We don't expect you to have experience of each point and we welcome a wide range of applicants, but working in a similar data-focused position and being comfortable automating processes would be essential. Analytical skills and intuition, and in-depth practical understanding of statistical concepts. Experience working with a range of health and care data sets, such as administrative data, electronic medical records, genetics, or questionnaires. Experience working closely with researchers in health, biomedical, or clinical sciences. Ability to evaluate the research outputs from a privacy or disclosure risk perspective. Working knowledge of Python, sufficient to be able to interrogate the data to produce meaningful descriptive statistics. Understanding and working knowledge of information governance and data security approaches appropriate for sensitive health data, ideally with experience of working within an ISO 27001 accredited environment. Awareness of ethical and legal issues (and professional debates) relating to genetics/genomics, the handling and storage of human tissue, and access to personal and health data. Ability to concisely summarize and explain complex scenarios in easy-to-understand terms. Resilience and motivation to problem solve and have significant positive impact on complex or uncertain issues. Ability to prioritize effectively and manage competing business demands and stakeholder expectations. Well-developed interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with subject matter experts and people at all organisational levels. Salary and Benefits: Salary banding £70,000 - 80,000. Generous company pension package with employer contributions of up to 12%. 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Continuous career development with regular appraisals and learning and development opportunities. A lovely new office in Holborn, Central London - we offer flexible and remote working arrangements. Join us - let's prevent disease together. Applications for this role will close on Monday 24th of February.

We are hiring a Project Manager to support and drive the delivery of our Research & Data programme. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the success of our digital transformation strategy, working closely with internal teams, external partners and suppliers who are required to deliver data into, and support the ongoing maintenance of our TRE Platform. Join our dynamic project management team as a pivotal Project Manager, driving the success of Our Future Health, set to be one of the world's largest health studies. In this role, you'll lead diverse technology and digital projects, collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Procurement and external vendors, and ensure streamlined delivery across various teams with competing priorities. You'll be a positive and motivated individual who thrives on problem solving and delivering on both current and changing priorities. We're looking for people that embrace high-profile projects with significant budgetary responsibility in a rapidly-scaling environment. You'll be adept at building relationships with internal teams and 3rd party providers with the ability to kick-start and maintain momentum across project teams of multi-skilled professionals. At Our Future Health, our mission is to transform the prevention, detection and treatment of conditions such as dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. We're looking for people to join us on our journey. If you're looking for a new challenge where you can contribute to helping future generations live in good health for longer, then we're keen to speak with you. You will be: Proactive and solution-oriented, thriving in dynamic environments. Skilled in agile, lean, and waterfall project methodologies. Experienced in business change, digital product development, and scaling. Adept at collaborating with diverse teams, managing high-risk projects with significant budgets. Familiar with project reporting, road mapping, and contingency planning. What you'll be doing: Crafting and executing a roadmap, balancing diverse organisational priorities. Through effective project management you will ensure quality and security of processes and data for researchers and Our Future Health participants. Collaborating seamlessly with Engineering, Data, Product, Science, Delivery teams, and external partners. Managing vendors and 3rd party suppliers for optimal support and outcomes. Overseeing a portfolio of ambitious tech or operational projects, ensuring timely and quality delivery. Utilising and promoting best project methodologies and digital tools for distributed team success. Providing regular status updates, risk assessments, budgetary oversight, and resource allocation. Fostering strong stakeholder relationships, offering innovative solutions to meet diverse business needs. Evaluating project outcomes for continuous learning and improvement. Upholding program standards, including maintaining documentation on Project SharePoint Sites. What you won't be doing: Working in a siloed environment with no freedom to make decisions. Working in a place where you can't see the impact your expertise makes. The environment We're a rapidly scaling team of talented people who've come from start-ups, tech companies, the NHS and health charities. We're creating something that will be used to transform the prevention, detection and treatment of disease - something that has never been done before on this scale. We are searching for an organised and tenacious Project Manager who can enable us to continue to work quickly and in an agile way to create a resource and platforms that will leave a lasting legacy for future generations. To succeed in this role, you will have some of the following: Proven experience working with technical engineering teams, ideally building digital products and services. Demonstrable experience in a project management role (or similar), with proven experience of managing successful delivery of projects, preferably with a digital product and service element. Proven experience using software tools to manage and enable projects (we use Asana, Confluence, JIRA, MS Sharepoint). Proven experience of working with vendors / 3rd party suppliers with the knowledge of when and how to challenge performance issues. Demonstrable ability to foster positive relationships as a primary point of contact for Project Delivery both internally and with external suppliers. An appetite to provide exceptional service with the ability to motivate colleagues and external suppliers whilst simultaneously holding them to project milestones where appropriate. The ability to derive insights from data, support teams to do their best work, and effectively report up and down an organisation. Proven track record of leading and managing multiple projects at the same time with short- and long-term deadlines. Understanding of Azure and other cloud based environments. Strong analytical skills and strategic thinking with an ability to work in a fast-paced environment. Ability to find simple solutions out of complex use cases. Understanding of all aspects of an agile product development lifecycle, including; product strategy development, story writing and requirements definition, backlog prioritisation, development, QA and launch. Generous company pension package with employer contributions of up to 12%. 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays.) Continuous career development with regular appraisals and learning and development opportunities. A lovely new office in Holborn, Central London - we offer flexible and remote working arrangements. Join us - let's prevent disease together.