Data Engineer: Secure Health Data Pipelines (Remote)

Our Future Health UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Pension Scheme

30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Enhanced Parental Leave

Cycle to Work Scheme

Home & Tech Savings

Employee Referral Bonus

Wellbeing Support

Central London office in Holborn with

Flexible and remote working

Job summary

Our Future Health UK is building a data platform to power health research at unprecedented scale from our London hub. As a Data Engineer, you will design and implement secure, scalable data pipelines using Python, PySpark, and Azure for researchers and NHS datasets.

You will work with researchers and engineers, review code, and contribute to governance and cloud architecture, with hybrid remote work options and a central London office.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building production-grade data pipelines and ETL processes.
• Excellent Python skills with experience developing scalable data solutions.
• Experience with PySpark or distributed data processing frameworks.
• Experience using GitHub and modern software engineering practices.
• Understanding of cloud-based data platforms, ideally Azure.
• Experience working with sensitive or regulated data and knowledge of secure data handling principles.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining data pipelines across our Azure-based platform.
• Translating technical specifications, architecture designs, and Jira tickets into secure, scalable implementations.
• Developing data transformation and ETL processes using Python and PySpark.
• Working with healthcare and NHS datasets to curate trusted, research-ready data assets.
• Reviewing and approving code through pull requests, ensuring consistency, quality, security, and adherence to engineering standards.
• Collaborating with researchers, engineers, and stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
• Producing documentation, source-to-target mappings, and supporting technical standards across the platform.
• Contributing to best practices in data engineering, security, governance, and cloud architecture.

Skills

Data pipelines

Python

PySpark

Git/GitHub

Azure

Secure data handling

Code reviews

Stakeholder management

NHS healthcare data

Tools

Databricks

Kubernetes

Dagster

SQL

Job description

Our Future Health UK is building a data platform to power health research at unprecedented scale from our London hub. As a Data Engineer, you will design and implement secure, scalable data pipelines using Python, PySpark, and Azure for researchers and NHS datasets.

You will work with researchers and engineers, review code, and contribute to governance and cloud architecture, with hybrid remote work options and a central London office.