Cloud Data Platform Engineer

Imubiosciences; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

IMU Biosciences is hiring a Software Engineer to build and operate a cloud-native data platform that underpins cutting-edge immune data science. You will turn high-dimensional biological data into trusted, analysis-ready data products and implement scalable, reproducible pipelines.

You will join a hybrid team in London, collaborating with computational immunologists, data scientists, and engineers to shape the platform foundations and ensure reliable, well-documented services that support

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience in Python or another production-grade language.
• Practical experience building and operating cloud-native systems on AWS.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, ideally Pulumi, Terraform, or an equivalent tool.
• Experience with data lakes, medallion architectures, lakehouse patterns, or large-scale analytical data platforms.
• Experience enabling, operating, or productionising data pipelines or scientific workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve cloud-native data platform services used by scientific, data science, and engineering teams.
• Develop and operate data lake and medallion-style architectures across raw, cleaned, curated, and analysis-ready data layers.
• Create reliable patterns for data ingestion, validation, transformation, storage, metadata capture, and access control.
• Support reproducible scientific and data pipelines, including assisting in the migration of workflows into production-ready deployable artefacts.
• Improve data discoverability, lineage, provenance, auditability, and reuse in line with practical FAIR data principles.
• Build automation, infrastructure, and developer workflows using infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, containers, and cloud-native engineering practices.
• Work closely with scientists, software engineers, and platform users to turn real data problems into reliable platform capabilities.
• Improve reliability, documentation, maintainability, and cost-awareness across data platform services and pipelines.

Skills

Python

AWS

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

Data platforms

Tools

Pulumi

Terraform

GitHub Actions

SQLMesh

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

IMU Biosciences is hiring a Software Engineer to build and operate a cloud-native data platform that underpins cutting-edge immune data science. You will turn high-dimensional biological data into trusted, analysis-ready data products and implement scalable, reproducible pipelines.

You will join a hybrid team in London, collaborating with computational immunologists, data scientists, and engineers to shape the platform foundations and ensure reliable, well-documented services that support