Lead Engineer

Bupa UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Wellbeing programmes

Bonus scheme up to 25%

Enhanced parental leave

Discounts on Bupa products/services

Career development and internalMoblity

Job summary

Bupa UK is seeking a Lead Engineer to drive DevOps and data engineering across Group Products. You will design, build, and govern analytics-enabled solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), balancing security, governance and performance while guiding engineering teams.

As technical authority, you’ll shape architecture and strategy, stay hands-on with complex design problems, and champion modern practices, while benefiting from a hybrid work model and extensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, implementing, and operating cloud-based technology products, ideally within GCP or a comparable cloud platform.
• Strong expertise in automation, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and modern engineering practices.
• Experience with secure data integration, including APIs, databases, and data pipelines, alongside authentication and access technologies such as OAuth and OIDC.
• Proven ability to deliver complex enterprise-scale technology solutions across multinational organisations.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Provide DevOps and Data engineering leadership for the Products, ensuring high standards of build, testing, architecture, and delivery.
• Design secure, scalable cloud analytics solutions and drive the technical roadmap from concept through to implementation.
• Champion modern engineering practices, including automation, CI/CD, IaC, and observability.
• Embed security, governance, and regulatory compliance into all solutions, balancing innovation with risk management.
• Collaborate with product teams and senior stakeholders to deliver business value and influence technical direction.
• Remain hands-on with solution design, code reviews, and complex technical challenges while coaching engineers.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing across teams.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Data engineering leadership

Cloud analytics (GCP)

CI/CD & IaC

Security & governance

Stakeholder management

Python

Tools

GCP

FiveTran

Airbyte

OAuth/OIDC

Job description

From £75,000 - £94,000 (neg. depending on experience) + benefits, including up to 25% bonus + £6K Car Allowance

London (EC2R 7HJ) or Salford (M50 3SP)

Hybrid working – 2 days per week in the office

Permanent

Full-time, 35 hours per week

We make health happen

Working in our Group functions Technology you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care not just in the UK but around the globe.

No matter your role, you’ll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day, by helping shape the strategic direction of our business around the world.

The Lead Engineer is a senior, hands-on technical leader with overall accountability for designing, building and governing Group Products (the “Products”):

• Group Data: Advanced Analytics. A self-serve, cloud‑native analytics product built on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We support our stakeholders to utilise GCP tooling for analysis via Python, including model-serving. Our roadmap includes introducing a data integration layer to further drive value adoption, as well as supporting more advanced machine learning use cases.
• Technology Insights Centre (TIC). TIC aims to put commercial metrics regarding technology into the hands of decision makers, quickly and reliably. We’re starting small but have ambitions to deliver meaningful organisation-wide change. We’re building out the capability from the beginning.

We're looking for a highly skilled Lead Engineer (focusing on DevOps and Data engineering) to provide technical leadership across our Products. You will be responsible for designing, building, and governing business-critical products that enable advanced analytics, data-driven decision-making, and technology insights across the organisation. As the technical authority for your domain, you'll combine deep engineering expertise with strong architecture, security, and governance knowledge to drive product delivery, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. You'll provide technical leadership to engineering teams, shape technical strategy, and champion modern engineering practices while remaining actively involved in solution design and technical problem-solving.

How you’ll help us make health happen

• Provide DevOps and Data engineering leadership for the Products, ensuring high standards of build, testing, architecture, and delivery.
• Design secure, scalable cloud analytics solutions and drive the technical roadmap from concept through to implementation.
• Champion modern engineering practices, including automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and observability.
• Embed security, governance, and regulatory compliance into all solutions, balancing innovation with risk management.
• Collaborate with product teams and senior stakeholders to deliver business value and influence technical direction.
• Remain hands-on with solution design, code reviews, and complex technical challenges while coaching and developing engineers.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, engineering excellence, and knowledge sharing across teams.

What you'll bring

• Extensive experience designing, implementing, and operating cloud-based technology products, ideally within GCP or a comparable cloud platform.
• Strong expertise in automation, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and modern engineering practices.
• Experience with secure data integration, including APIs, databases, and data pipelines, alongside authentication and access technologies such as OAuth and OIDC.
• Proven ability to design secure, scalable solutions within regulated environments, with a strong understanding of governance, security, and compliance frameworks.
• Track record of delivering complex enterprise-scale technology solutions across large and multinational organisations.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing engineering teams.
• Knowledge of SQL and Python is advantageous, while experience with tools such as FiveTran or Airbyte would be beneficial.

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family-friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Access to our wellbeing programmes and mental health support
• Bonus scheme up to 25%
• Enhanced parental leave
• Discounts on Bupa products and services
• Opportunities for career development and internal mobility

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We’re committed to ensuring you’re treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.