Senior Data Engineer

£75,000 – £100,000 + bonus

London (1–2 days per fortnight in office)

Troi Search has partnered with a mission-driven healthtech company as they build out a new engineering pod. The organisation focuses on improving clinical workflows and driving better patient outcomes through connected systems, data, and intelligent digital tools. Its platform is used by healthcare providers globally and continues to expand rapidly.

Position Overview

As the company grows, it is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to play a key role in developing and scaling its data platform. Data underpins the organisation's analytics, product development, and machine-learning capabilities. The role involves designing reliable, secure, and scalable systems that enable teams across the business and healthcare partners to derive value from high-quality data while ensuring compliance with healthcare and data-protection standards.

Responsibilities

Reporting to their UK-based Data Engineering Lead, the Senior Data Engineer will:

Design and evolve scalable data architectures that meet performance and reliability goals.
Build and orchestrate batch and real-time data pipelines.
Lead data modelling, cataloguing, and documentation efforts.
Optimise performance across data tools and technologies.
Implement automated testing, anomaly detection, and validation frameworks.
Support monitoring, observability, and incident-response processes.
Ensure strong data governance, including access controls, encryption, and anonymisation.
Manage cloud infrastructure through infrastructure-as-code tools.
Collaborate with Data Scientists, Analysts, Product teams, and other stakeholders.
Contribute to customer-facing data products, APIs, and analytics features.
Mentor junior engineers and help drive engineering best practices.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field (or equivalent experience).
c.5+ years' experience as a Data Engineer, ideally with cloud-based data platforms (ideally AWS).
Strong desire for individuals who've worked in data sensitive fields - Healthcare / GDPR compliance / HIPAA compliance / Regulation
Strong experience with data lakes, warehouses, and real-time data systems.
Practical experience with cloud services such as storage, compute, orchestration, and serverless tools.
Proficiency in Python and SQL.
Ability to work collaboratively in an agile environment.

Desirable Skills

Cloud certifications (ideally AWS but still interested if GCP/Azure).
Experience with data visualisation tools.
Experience with CI/CD, testing, and monitoring for data workflows.
Familiarity with third-party APIs.
Experience with modern data stack tools (e.g., dbt, Snowflake, Databricks).
Experience with orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow).
Experience building REST or GraphQL APIs.

Why Work Here?

Meaningful mission in the healthtech sector
Opportunities for ownership, growth, and increased responsibility
Values-driven culture focused on trust, outcomes, and continuous improvement
Generous annual leave and wellbeing benefits
"Summer Fridays" early finishes during certain months
Annual bonus scheme
£1,000 annual professional-development stipend
Flexible working hours
Flat organisational structure with space for innovation

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