Staff Analytics Platform Engineer
Role Overview
Shape the architecture, reliability, and future direction of the analytics platform at Our Future Health.
Provide technical leadership across ingestion and transformation tooling, Snowflake architecture, semantic modelling, and secure analytics environments.
Define patterns, standards, and infrastructure that help analysts, data scientists, and product teams build reliable, scalable analytics.
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Role overview
Shape the architecture, reliability, and future direction of the analytics platform at Our Future Health.
Provide technical leadership across ingestion and transformation tooling, Snowflake architecture, semantic modelling, and secure analytics environments.
Define patterns, standards, and infrastructure that help analysts, data scientists, and product teams build reliable, scalable analytics.
What you'll do
- Co-own platform architecture and design end-to-end solutions across Snowflake, ingestion pipelines, dbt infrastructure, semantic layers, and secure analytics environments.
- Set long-term technical vision and architectural principles for a scalable, secure, cost-efficient, reliable, and usable data ecosystem.
- Lead high-impact platform initiatives; own CI/CD, testing, environment management, observability, and infrastructure as code.
- Resolve complex cross-cutting issues and optimize Snowflake performance and cost using real workloads and modelling patterns.
- Mature data SLAs/SLOs, observability, lineage, quality frameworks, safe ingestion, and data contracts.
- Influence data-system design, raise engineering standards, and mentor analytics and platform engineers.
Skills and experience
- Deep experience building and running modern data platforms in complex, multi-team environments.
- Excellent Python engineering skills and ability to design scalable, reliable platform components.
- Expertise in analytics data modelling and its effect on performance, cost, and usability.
- Hands-on ingestion or orchestration tooling experience and experience scaling pipelines across many sources.
- Proven technical leadership across infrastructure, ingestion, transformation, and analytics enablement.
- Platform architecture experience with Snowflake, dbt execution, semantic layers, and secure analytics environments.
- Ability to diagnose cross-cutting issues and a track record of improving developer experience.
- Clear, influential communication skills and experience mentoring engineers.
- Hands-on dbt and analytics CI/CD experience; Kubernetes and cloud-native environment experience.
- Familiarity with semantic layers, BI tooling such as Omni, secure notebook environments such as Coder, Jupyter, or RStudio, regulated environments, Terraform, governance, and observability tooling.
Benefits
- Salary from £95,000 per annum; employer pension contributions of up to 12%.
- 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, with flexibility to take bank holidays when convenient.
- Enhanced parental leave, Cycle to Work Scheme, and home and technology savings through salary sacrifice.
- £1,000 employee referral bonus and wellbeing support, including mental health first aiders, online GP services, and an employee assistance programme.
- Central London office in Holborn and flexible and remote working arrangements.
About Our Future Health
The organization's mission is to transform prevention, detection, and treatment of conditions including dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.
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