Senior Data Engineer: Healthcare Data (OMOP/FHIR)

Our Future Health UK; United States; Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 129,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 12%

Holiday 30 days

Parental leave implementation

Cycle to work

Home & tech savings

EV salary sacrifice

Referral bonus

Wellbeing support

Central London office & remote work

Job summary

Our Future Health UK is seeking a Senior Data Engineer with deep healthcare data expertise to build scalable data pipelines and data products for world-leading research. You will lead data transformations, collaborate with scientists and engineers, and implement governance across large healthcare datasets.

Expertise in OMOP/FHIR, Python, and cloud platforms (Azure) is essential. Experience across academia, biotech, or health-tech startups is valued; UK remote-friendly with London travel as

Qualifications

• Proven Data Engineering experience within large-scale data environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable data pipelines ingesting healthcare data from multiple providers.
• Develop and maintain Python-based data transformation logic for curated, research-ready datasets.
• Contribute to shared codebases with testing, reviews, and clean coding standards.
• Collaborate with data scientists, epidemiologists, software engineers and product teams.
• Ensure data quality, validation and governance across datasets.
• Transform and harmonise data into CDMs like OMOP and FHIR for research use cases.
• Create reusable, scalable data products for broad stakeholder consumption.
• Communicate complex requirements to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Produce clear technical documentation covering pipelines, architecture and operations.
• Support design and implementation of data flows across the healthcare data ecosystem.
• Leverage Azure, Databricks, Spark and Data Lake architectures for high performance solutions.
• Promote engineering best practices and healthcare data standards across the team.
• Stay updated on trends in healthcare, research and data engineering.

Skills

Python

Data pipelines

Azure

Databricks

Spark

Omop

FHIR

Git/GitHub

Unix/Linux

Agile

Tools

Azure Databricks

Spark

Parquet/Delta Lake

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Our Future Health UK is seeking a Senior Data Engineer with deep healthcare data expertise to build scalable data pipelines and data products for world-leading research. You will lead data transformations, collaborate with scientists and engineers, and implement governance across large healthcare datasets.

Expertise in OMOP/FHIR, Python, and cloud platforms (Azure) is essential. Experience across academia, biotech, or health-tech startups is valued; UK remote-friendly with London travel as