Engineering Manager
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What you'll be doing
Leading an engineering squad, creating the conditions for high performance, collaboration and delivery excellence.
Managing and developing engineers through coaching, mentoring and career development support.
Driving roadmap delivery by coordinating priorities, managing risks and ensuring alignment across stakeholders.
Providing technical leadership for data-focused initiatives, including healthcare data models such as OMOP and FHIR.
Collaborating with Product, Data and Technology teams to deliver scalable, sustainable solutions.
Facilitating technical and non-technical discussions, helping teams navigate priorities, dependencies and trade-offs.
Promoting engineering best practices, continuous improvement and effective Agile ways of working.
Overseeing technical decision-making, balancing delivery pace, quality, resilience and technical debt.
Supporting operational excellence through incident management, governance, compliance and service reliability.
Communicating progress, risks and strategic updates to senior stakeholders and leadership teams.
Requirements
- We don't expect you to have experience with every single point but to be successful in this role you'll need to have experience of some of the following:
- Experience leading and developing engineers within cross-functional software or data engineering teams.
- Previous Engineering Manager experience with responsibility for people leadership, team performance and delivery.
- Experience building, scaling or establishing new teams, processes and ways of working.
- Strong engineering background with the ability to provide technical leadership and support delivery in a hands-off management role.
- Understanding of healthcare data standards and common data models, including OMOP , FHIR or similar.
- Experience working with complex data platforms, data products or large-scale data ecosystems.
- Ability to guide technical discussions around architecture, data modelling, engineering quality and scalability.
- Experience balancing delivery priorities, technical debt and long-term platform sustainability.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience working collaboratively with engineers, product managers, data specialists, researchers and senior stakeholders.
- Strong facilitation, planning and documentation skills, with experience leading Agile delivery practices.
- Experience within healthcare, research, life sciences, health-tech or other data-intensive environments would be advantageous.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment and helping to establish a high-performing, inclusive team culture.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- 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 someone 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
You may work remotely from anywhere within the UK, with occasional travel to London.
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
About Our Future Health
UK charity running a health research programme that recruits adult volunteers to improve disease prevention, detection and treatment.
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