Software Engineer - Python & AWS (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds and London)

Software Engineer - Python & AWS Genomics England is hiring an experienced Software Engineer with strong Python and AWS experience to join our Scientific R&D team, which sits within our Generate Research Data (GRD) service. GRD works across our organisation and with external partners to generate, obtain and enrich high-quality genomic, multi-omic and clinical datasets. The service supports the journey from new research studies and emerging technologies through to preparing data for release into the National Genomic Research Library (NGRL), helping enable research, discovery and clinical impact.

The Scientific R&D team develops and tests new genomic and multi-omic approaches and provides scientific expertise across GRD. The team operates wet-lab and bioinformatics capabilities, including long-read sequencing, data analysis, technology assessment and pilot development. It supports programmes such as Cancer 2.0 and Generation Study-related discovery work, while investigating how emerging technologies can be applied to future research.

This Software Engineer role develops and maintains data processing systems within the Scientific R&D team, working across a mixture of cloud and on-premises infrastructure to support the assessment of cutting-edge sequencing technologies for clinical genome sequencing. What you’ll be doing: Thinking through, designing and enabling the future facing research cohorts end to end Writing clean, scalable Python code, following engineering best practices