Cloud-Native Bioinformatics Data Platform Engineer

Hlx Life Sciences; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Hlx Life Sciences is seeking a Software Engineer to build and operate the data platform that underpins immune profiling, ML models and data science workflows in a hybrid London setting.

You will design and implement cloud-native data services, data lake architectures and automated pipelines, partnering with scientists and engineers to deliver reliable, scalable platform capabilities while maintaining strong governance and documentation.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering judgement and hands-on experience with Python and cloud-native design.
• Experience building and operating AWS-based data platforms.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Pulumi or Terraform.
• Experience with data lakes, medallion architectures and lakehouse patterns.
• Experience enabling or productionising data pipelines.

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 migrating workflows into production-ready artefacts.
• Improve data discoverability, lineage, provenance, auditability and reuse in line with FAIR data principles.
• Build automation, infrastructure and developer workflows using infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, containers and cloud-native practices.
• Collaborate with scientists, software engineers and platform users to turn 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

Data pipelines

Data lake architectures

Data governance

Collaborating with scientists

Tools

Pulumi

Terraform

GitHub Actions

SQLMesh

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Hlx Life Sciences is seeking a Software Engineer to build and operate the data platform that underpins immune profiling, ML models and data science workflows in a hybrid London setting.

You will design and implement cloud-native data services, data lake architectures and automated pipelines, partnering with scientists and engineers to deliver reliable, scalable platform capabilities while maintaining strong governance and documentation.