Analytics Engineer in London

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’re now growing our analytics engineering capability, recognising it as critical to unlocking the value of our data. This is a chance to join early, shape the function, and work on genuinely unique health data challenges.

You’ll join our Analytics Platform team, a cross-functional group building the data foundations that enable our analysts, data scientists, and researchers across the organisation to unlock data to drive strategic and operational decision making. Your focus will be turning raw data into reliable, well-modelled datasets that others can trust and reuse.

Why join?

• Work with large-scale, real-world health data
• Build trusted, reusable data products used across science and business
• Help develop data quality, testing, and observability from the ground up
• Enable self-serve and AI-powered analytics for non-technical users
• Join at an early stage of team growth with real influence; even at mid-level, you’ll lead initiatives and work directly with stakeholders
• Mission-led: your work contributes to improving health outcomes at scale

You will:

• Build high-quality data models
• Design and maintain scalable dbt models in Snowflake (data marts, metrics, reusable datasets)
• Apply and evolve consistent modelling standards
• Ensure data models are well documented and appropriate metadata and observability is in place
• Partner with business and science teams to enable great analytics
• Coach analysts, data scientists, and researchers on best practices (modelling, testing, documentation, data quality)
• Support teams to own and safely contribute to shared data models
• Turn exploratory analysis into reliable, production-ready datasets
• Improve data quality, documentation, and reproducibility in workflows
• Implement automated testing and monitoring
• Work with platform engineers to resolve issues and optimise performance
• Proactively optimise and improve query performance and pipelines
• Support self-serve analytics
• Build and maintain semantic layers in Snowflake and Omni
• Provide clear documentation and guidance for governed self-serve use
• Collaborate across the analytics platform
• Support ingestion workflows, data contracts, and quality standards
• Contribute to performance, orchestration, and CI/CD improvements

We’re London-based (Holborn) and work on a flexible hybrid basis (typically weekly with a team day every 2 weeks). We’d like to prioritise candidates who can reasonably commute and benefit from in-person collaboration.

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:

Essential:

• Strong experience in analytics engineering or a closely related field.
• Excellent business acumen; able to translate problems into clear metrics and data models.
• Very experienced in SQL and analytics data modelling.
• Experience with Python for data ingestion and automation.
• Familiarity with Snowflake or similar data warehouses.
• Hands-on experience with dbt in production environments.
• Understanding of metrics, KPIs, and analytical design patterns.
• Experience partnering with analysts and data scientists.
• Ability to coach and support others, raising analytics capability across the organisation.
• Clear, collaborative communication skills.

Bonus / Desirable:

• Experience enabling domain teams to own and maintain their analytics models.
• Exposure to product analytics tools (e.g., Mixpanel).
• Interest in platform level topics such as performance, orchestration, or CI/CD.

Competitive base salary from £65,000. Generous Pension Scheme – We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%. 30 Days Holiday pro rata +