Hybrid Staff Analytics Platform Engineer

at Our Future Health UK

• Job title: Staff Analytics Platform Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: £95,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Staff Analytics Platform Engineer shaping the architecture of the analytics platform at Our Future Health. Driving the technical vision for scalable and cost-efficient data solutions across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Co‑owning the analytics platform architecture, designing end‑to‑end solutions across Snowflake, ingestion pipelines, dbt infrastructure, semantic layers, and secure analytics environments.
• Defining and driving the long‑term technical vision for the analytics platform, ensuring it is scalable, cost‑efficient, secure, and easy for data consumers to use.
• Establishing architectural principles and patterns that balance reliability, governance, usability, and performance across the entire data ecosystem.
• Leading high‑impact platform initiatives that improve performance, developer experience, cost efficiency, or operational maturity.
• Owning and evolving core platform components, including CI/CD, testing strategies, environment management, observability, and infrastructure as code.
• Acting as the technical escalation point for complex, cross‑cutting platform issues and guiding teams toward robust, scalable solutions.
• Driving Snowflake performance and cost optimisation, informed by real workloads and modelling patterns.
• Implementing and maturing data SLAs/SLOs, data observability, lineage, and quality frameworks to ensure trusted analytics at scale.
• Collaborating with data product and engineering teams to enable safe, scalable ingestion and well‑defined data contracts.
• Influencing how teams design and interact with data systems, raising engineering standards across the organisation.
• Providing technical mentorship to analytics engineers and platform engineers, helping elevate capability across the data function.

Requirements

• Deep experience building and running modern data platforms in complex, multi‑team environments.
• Excellent Python engineering skills and the ability to design scalable, reliable platform components.
• Expertise in analytics data modelling and how modelling choices affect performance, cost, and usability.
• Hands‑on experience with ingestion/orchestration tooling (e.g. Airbyte) and scaling pipelines across many sources.
• Proven technical leadership across infrastructure, ingestion, transformation, and analytics enablement.
• Strong platform architecture experience: Snowflake, dbt execution, semantic layers, secure analytics environments.
• Ability to diagnose complex, cross‑cutting issues across data, infrastructure, and analytical workloads.
• A track record of improving developer experience and reducing friction in data development.
• Clear, influential communication skills with the ability to align teams around platform strategy.
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising capability across data and platform teams.
• Hands‑on dbt and analytics CI/CD experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud‑native environments.
• Familiarity with semantic layers and BI tooling (e.g. Omni).
• Experience supporting secure notebook environments (Coder, Jupyter, RStudio).
• Comfort working in regulated environments with strong governance and audit needs.
• Knowledge of Terraform, data governance models, and data observability tooling.

Benefits

• Salary from £95,000 per annum.
• Generous Pension Scheme – We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%.
• 30 Days Holiday + 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
• £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.