Genomics Data Engineer: Python & AWS | Remote Options

Genomics England; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 66,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Leave

Pension & Benefits

Learning & Development

Recognition & Rewards

Health & Wellbeing

Job summary

Genomics England is hiring an experienced Software Engineer with strong Python and AWS to join our Scientific R&D team, which sits within our Generate Research Data (GRD) service. The service supports the journey from new research studies and emerging technologies through to preparing data for release into the National Genomic Research Library (NGRL), helping enable research, discovery and clinical impact.

The role develops and maintains data processing systems across cloud and on-premises

Qualifications

• Strong Python skills and experience building scalable backend services.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, microservice architectures, and containerised environments.
• Experience working on data-heavy or distributed systems.
• Familiarity with agile delivery and test-driven development.
• Self-sufficiency combined with a collaborative mindset and openness to learning from others.

Responsibilities

• Writing clean, scalable Python code, following engineering best practices.
• Developing working solutions to enable processing of long read data, including future facing solutions in AWS.
• Designing and maintaining services on AWS, with a focus on resilience and performance.
• Working on distributed systems that handle big data processing at scale.
• Building and evolving our test automation frameworks.
• Troubleshooting issues, working closely with colleagues.
• Staying up to date with the latest tools, libraries and tech approaches.

Skills

Python

AWS

Backend services

Microservices

Cloud

Education

BSc in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Genomics England is hiring an experienced Software Engineer with strong Python and AWS to join our Scientific R&D team, which sits within our Generate Research Data (GRD) service. The service supports the journey from new research studies and emerging technologies through to preparing data for release into the National Genomic Research Library (NGRL), helping enable research, discovery and clinical impact.

The role develops and maintains data processing systems across cloud and on-premises