Engineering Manager - (Researcher Pillar)

Our Future Health is an ambitious collaboration between the public, charity and private sectors, designed to help people live healthier lives for longer through better prevention, earlier detection and improved treatment of diseases. We will speed up the discovery of new methods of early disease detection, and the evaluation of new diagnostic tools, to help identify and treat diseases early, when outcomes are usually better.

With over 2.5M volunteers across the UK, we’re now the world’s biggest health research programme of its kind, and our volunteer group is also more diverse than other, similar health research programmes. Technology and data are central to our mission. Our systems power websites, clinics across the UK, secure analytics and research systems, pipelines that process highly sensitive health and genetic data, and we are continuing to grow our engineering capability to support this ambition.

We are hiring an Engineering Manager to join our Researcher Product Squads. This role will report to the Head of Engineering of our Researcher Pillar and initially work with one squad, with a trajectory of taking on an additional Researcher Squad within the first year. Our squads are focused on our community of world-class health researchers and work closely with our access governance and commercial teams to provide researchers with various tools, content and support to join the Our Future Health mission and run studies of good quality in our trusted research environment.

The role is not hands-on, but an engineering background will help to effectively mentor and coach engineers, guide the squad through technical trade-off discussions and contribute to the broader technical roadmap. If you are passionate about your work, collaborating on cross-functional teams, creating the conditions for engineers to do their best work and balancing pace, quality and sustainability, we would love to hear from you.

This role will be fully hybrid with the expectation you can come to our Holborn, London office a few times per month, e.g. for squad leadership and workshop meetings. We welcome applications from all who may not feel they match the full criteria, so if you have most of the below, we'd like to hear from you:

• Experience of managing engineers and engineering within cross-functional development teams in a growing organisation.
• You know how to communicate to and between technical and non-technical stakeholders as well as facilitate discussions within a multidisciplinary team including scientists, software engineers, product managers and other data engineers.
• You know how to manage different perspectives.
• You can listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders and interpret them, and effectively manage stakeholder expectations.
• You can support or host difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.
• Experience of working in teams that build and own cloud-hosted applications. Our teams mostly use Ruby on Rails, Python and Node.js, and we’re on Azure for our cloud infrastructure. A comparable tech stack is entirely fine for this role.
• Experience working in an Agile development team following best practices including GitHub, code review, unit tests, TDD and CI/CD.
• You have experience line managing and coaching engineers in a successful, cross-functional development team.
• You have an understanding and working knowledge of information governance and data security approaches appropriate for sensitive health data.
• Experience in operationally managing software components/services once live, including: observability best practices, logging best practices, error reporting, debugging and live incident management.
• Experience using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic etc.

Competitive base salary from £105,000. Generous Pension Scheme – We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%. 30 Days Holiday pro rata + Bank Holidays – Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you. Enhanced Parental Leave – Supporting you during life’s 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. EV Scheme – Save up to 40% on a brand new electric vehicle all-inclusive package through salary sacrifice. £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus – Know something 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 - let’s prevent disease together. We recommend you apply as soon as possible as occasionally due to high volumes of applications, we need to close our postings early. 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. If you do require any reasonable adjustments, please email us at talent@ourfuturehealth.org.uk.