Senior Data Engineer - NHS-Scale Data Platform & AI

Accurx; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary £85,000–£105,000

Equity £30,000 in stock options

Pension & life insurance

Office in Shoreditch, dog-friendly

Hackathons & visits to GP practices

28 days holiday + bank holidays + 4週間

Job summary

Accurx, based in London, is transforming NHS communications with a national healthcare platform used by thousands of GP practices. We are a mission-driven team of engineers building a scalable data platform that powers analytics, ML, and AI-enabled tools across healthcare settings.

You will join a cross-functional team designing data pipelines and data architecture to support real-time and batched analytics for millions of patient interactions, while mentoring teammates and contributing to a

Qualifications

• Strong, proven experience as a Data Engineer designing and building ingestion and ETL/ELT pipelines from scratch using Python and SQL in production environments.
• Deep understanding of modern cloud data platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) and transformation tools like dbt, focusing on clean, reliable, reusable datasets.
• Comfortable owning data architecture decisions and working with cloud environments and best practices like Git and CI/CD.
• Experience or strong interest in building and operationalising machine learning models and enabling AI outcomes through solid data foundations.
• Ability to drive cross-functional collaboration to shape problems and deliver solutions in healthcare contexts.
• Proactive use of AI tools to automate routine tasks and improve quality and speed.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale a robust data architecture handling large event-driven flows across GP practices in the UK.
• Build and own ingestion and ELT pipelines end-to-end from source systems to Snowflake using Python and SQL.
• Make architecture decisions that support analytics, experimentation and ML at scale.
• Collaborate with Analytics Engineering, Product and ML teams to turn raw data into reliable datasets.
• Set and uphold data integrity, security and reliability standards to keep patients safe.
• Lay data foundations for AI/ML work, moving models from experimentation into production.
• Tackle greenfield problems and contribute to a strong engineering culture through code reviews and planning.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

ETL/ELT

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

dbt

Job description

Accurx, based in London, is transforming NHS communications with a national healthcare platform used by thousands of GP practices. We are a mission-driven team of engineers building a scalable data platform that powers analytics, ML, and AI-enabled tools across healthcare settings.

You will join a cross-functional team designing data pipelines and data architecture to support real-time and batched analytics for millions of patient interactions, while mentoring teammates and contributing to a