Senior Data Engineer

edgehealth; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Edge is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to lead delivery for client projects in the healthcare sector. You will work directly with public and private organisations, shaping data platforms and mentoring engineers on the team.

The role blends engineering and consulting, requiring hands-on work on pipelines and architecture while guiding project teams through client engagements and bid processes.

Qualifications

• Experience leading client-facing data engineering projects.
• Hands-on with data pipelines and architecture decisions.
• Experience in healthcare or NHS projects is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery with clients and coach junior engineers.
• Build and evolve data infrastructure and pipelines.
• Contribute to bids and proposals and shape engineering practices.

Skills

Data engineering

Leadership

Client delivery

Mentoring

Pipelines

Architecture

Job description

We are hiring a data engineer to lead client delivery and build the next generation of engineers at Edge. This is a client-facing leadership role. You will spend most of your time working directly with both public & private organisations working in the healthcare sector, leading project teams drawn from every grade, and coaching junior engineers face to face. If the phrase “forward-deployed engineer” describes how you like to work, you will recognise this job.

The engineering matters, and you will need to be a capable engineer. What makes someone excel here, though, is the ability to operate with clients and to develop people.

What it's like to work at Edge

The role is deliberately a mix of engineering and consulting. As a Senior Data Engineer you lead delivery with clients and develop the engineers around you, but you are still expected to be hands-on: building pipelines, making architecture calls, and noticing when a build is drifting from good practice. You'll work closely with economists, data scientists and consultants, so the engineering always connects to the question the client is trying to answer.

The work is varied and often starts with a problem rather than a spec. We might be building data infrastructure for an NHS organisation, bringing together sensitive patient data safely so it can inform decisions, or creating a tool a client can run themselves. Because we work across the public and private health sector, no two projects look quite the same.

We are also small enough for people to shape what Edge does. Senior Data Engineers coach junior colleagues, contribute to bids and proposals, and help set how we engineer as a team. We set aside two training days each quarter, and gaps in the stack are something we train rather than screen out.

Edge is rated 4.9/5 on Glassdoor with 100% saying they would recommend the company. Recent reviews mention a supportive culture, interesting projects, personal development and lots of room to explore interests.