Lead Engineer (Group Data)

Bupa; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus up to 25%

Car allowance £6K

Bupa health insurance

Pension scheme

25 days holiday

Job summary

Bupa is seeking a Lead Engineer (Group Data) to drive the design, build, and governance of cloud-based analytics products across the group. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic influence, focusing on secure data integration and scalable architectures.

The position offers hybrid work (2 days in the office) in London or Salford, with a strong emphasis on DevOps, CI/CD, and regulatory compliance to support global health initiatives.

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 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.

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, 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.

Skills

Cloud data engineering

Leadership

Data governance

Security/compliance

Stakeholder communication

Python

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Python

SQL

CI/CD tools

Job description

Job Description: Lead Engineer (Group Data)

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

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.

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.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell Bupa health insurance
• Access to our wellbeing programmes and mental health support
• Bonus scheme up to 25%
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme
• 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 fair during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.

Time Type

Full time

Job Area

IT

Locations

Angel Court, London, Bupa Place

Be at the heart of helping people live longer healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We employ more than 80,000 people globally who are making this a reality. If you've got the belief, the drive and the talent to help us in our ambition then we’d like to hear from you. Wherever you work, one thing stands out about Bupa people. Our customers are our passion - they're at the heart of our positively different culture of care. At Bupa you’ll be challenged, you’ll be encouraged to innovate, and collaborate with colleagues who are committed to delivering exceptional experiences. We trust, respect and consider everyone, knowing your difference will make the difference.