Principal Engineer - Digital Health Products

Our Future Health; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A national health initiative is hiring a Principal Engineer to drive the development of digital health technologies enhancing clinical trials and health insights. This pivotal role requires strong leadership in precision health software, regulatory compliance expertise, and a collaborative spirit. The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in health data management and a passion for improving health outcomes. Join us in transforming healthcare with innovative solutions.

Benefits

Generous Pension Scheme

30 Days Holiday

Enhanced Parental Leave

Cycle to Work Scheme

Home & Tech Savings

Employee Referral Bonus

Wellbeing Support

Flexible and remote working

Qualifications

• Experience leading the design and delivery of personalised health software products.
• In-depth knowledge of regulatory requirements for clinical software.
• Proven experience developing Software as a Medical Device in compliance with UK regulations.

Responsibilities

• Deliver key technologies that impact participant health at a national scale.
• Design and integrate digital health technologies processing sensitive data.
• Play a role in defining regulatory strategy and ensuring compliance.

Skills

Technical design development

Precision medicine software

Health data management

Azure

Infrastructure as Code

Data modelling

Agile practices

Operational software management

Cross-functional team collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Software as a Medical Device (SaMD)

Quality management systems

Risk management

Job description

Description

We are hiring a Principal Engineer to join the new team working on the initiatives and projects which will make use of the Our Future Health resource to provide personalised actionable health insights (such as basic calculated disease risk scores and more advanced Polygenic and Integrated Risk scores) to our participants and enable a huge increase in the UKs ability to run clinical trials (as part of the governments 10-year plan for the NHS). This role will be hugely pivotal in delivering key technologies that impact participant health on a national scale.

Sitting at the intersection of technology oversight architecture product development and clinical software delivery working with peers across the organisation you will provide the technical direction and expertise needed to design architect integrate operate and govern internal and third-party digital health technologies. These applications will process sensitive health data share health insights enable further third-party research studies and build participant engagement. You will also play a key role in defining our regulatory strategy contribute to medical risk management and work closely with regulatory specialists to understand applicable standards as well as ensuring standards compliance by establishing procedures with a particular focus on Information Security Health Information and Medical Device standards.

To fulfil this role you will need extensive knowledge and experience of digital health applications clinical trials genomics and associated regulatory requirements. Youll apply these to drive the initiatives and programme-level outcomes required to meet our targets for clinical trial recruitment returning health insights to participants and developing necessary regulated software where applicable.

At Our Future Health our mission is to transform the preventiondetectionand treatment of conditions such as dementia cancer diabetes heart disease and stroke. Were looking for people to join us on our journey. If youre looking for a new challenge where you can contribute to helping future generations live in good health for longer then were keen to speak with you.

Requirements

To succeed in this role you will need some of the following skills and competencies :

• Experience leading the technical design development and delivery of precision medicine / personalised health software products or devices.
• Knowledge and experience of large scale processing and management of sensitive health data focused on healthcare delivery and clinical trials.
• Prior experience with Azure (ideally) AWS or GCP.
• Comfortable working with Infrastructure as Code ideally with knowledge of Terraform.
• Knowledge of good data modelling and design patterns; in-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and familiarity other types of data store (blob document graph).
• Experience in a technical leadership role in a modern agile development team leading the adoption of practices like code review TDD CI / CD and pairing using tools like Git and GitHub.
• Experience of operationally managing software components once live including; observability logging metrics error reporting debugging and live incident management.
• Experience working in / with cross-functional teams consisting of engineers product UX and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience leading the work of multiple cross-functional teams to deliver an overall objective.
• Comfortable in facilitating complex technical discussions with organisation-wide impact encouraging collaboration and providing direction.
• Proven ability to communicate with stakeholders and audiences at different levels including exec level (CTO CPO etc).
• Proven experience developing Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) in compliance with the UK MDR 2002 and applicable international standards (ISO 14971 ISO 13485 IEC 62304 IEC 62366) :
• Demonstrated ability to produce and maintain required software lifecycle documentation required under IEC 62304 including software development plans architecture and design specifications unit / integration / system test protocols and reports software requirements traceability matrices anomaly / change records etc.
• Hands-on knowledge of quality management systems (ISO 13485) including participation in internal audits CAPA processes and ensuring software lifecycle documentation is inspection-ready for regulatory review.
• Strong understanding of risk management per ISO 14971 and usability engineering principles per IEC 62366.
• Familiarity with clinical safety and health software standards relevant in the UK (e.g. DCB0129 / 0160) and the associated regulatory expectations for safe deployment of clinical software.
• Experience of supporting regulatory submissions (Technical Files Design Dossiers or equivalent) including responding regulator / Approved Body queries on software documentation.
• Experience working in small growing organisations with a high degree of ambiguity where flexibility is valued.
• Expert understanding of software quality and experience leading quality improvement initiatives across multiple cross-functional teams.
• A track record of successfully mentoring both highly experienced and early career engineers.

This advert will close on Wednesday 10th September at 4pm.

Benefits

• Generous Pension Scheme We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%.
• 30 Days Holiday Bank Holidays Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you.
• Enhanced Parental Leave Supporting you during lifes biggest moments.
• Cycle to Work Scheme Save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice.
• Home & Tech Savings Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice
• 1000 Employee Referral Bonus Know someone amazing Get rewarded for bringing them on board!
• Wellbeing Support Access to Mental Health First Aiders plus 24 / 7 online GP services and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family.
• A Great Place to Work We have a lovely Central London office in Holborn and offer flexible and remote working arrangements.

Join us - letsprevent disease together

At Our Future Health we recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates regardless of their background have equitable access to our application process. We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability neurodiversity or long-term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of their application process.

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