Principal Engineer - Digital Health Products

Overview

We are hiring a Principal Engineer to join the new team working on initiatives and projects which will use the Our Future Health resource to provide personalised, actionable health insights to participants and enable a large increase in the UK's ability to run clinical trials as part of the government's 10-year NHS plan. This role will be pivotal in delivering key technologies that impact participant health on a national scale.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction and expertise to design, architect, integrate, operate, and govern internal and third-party digital health technologies.
• Lead technology oversight, architecture, product development, and clinical software delivery at scale, processing sensitive health data, sharing health insights, enabling third-party research studies, and building participant engagement.
• Help define regulatory strategy, contribute to medical risk management, ensure standards compliance, and establish procedures with a focus on Information Security, Health Information, and Medical Device standards.
• Engage with regulatory specialists to understand applicable standards and ensure compliance.
• Support initiatives to meet targets for clinical trial recruitment, returning health insights to participants, and developing necessary regulated software where applicable.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge and experience of digital health applications, clinical trials, genomics, and associated regulatory requirements.
• Experience leading the technical design, development, and delivery of precision medicine/personalised health software products or devices.
• Knowledge and experience of large-scale processing and management of sensitive health data, focused on healthcare delivery and clinical trials.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred, AWS or GCP acceptable).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• Strong data modelling skills; in-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and familiarity with other data stores (blob, document, graph).
• Experience in technical leadership within agile teams, promoting practices such as code review, TDD, CI/CD, and pairing using Git/GitHub.
• Experience operating software components post-launch (observability, logging, metrics, error reporting, debugging, and incident management).
• Experience working in cross-functional teams with engineers, product, UX, and non-technical stakeholders; ability to lead multiple cross-functional teams.
• Ability to facilitate complex technical discussions with organization-wide impact and provide clear direction.
• Proven ability to communicate with stakeholders at various levels, including executive audiences (CTO, CPO, etc.).
• Experience developing Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) in compliance with UK MDR 2002 and applicable international standards (ISO 14971, ISO 13485, IEC 62304, IEC 62366, etc.).
• Experience producing and maintaining software lifecycle documentation required under IEC 62304 (software development plans, architecture and design specs, test protocols/reports, traceability matrices, etc.).
• Experience with quality management systems (ISO 13485), including internal audits, CAPA processes, and ensuring software lifecycle documentation is inspection-ready for regulatory review.
• Strong understanding of risk management per ISO 14971 and usability engineering per IEC 62366.
• Familiarity with clinical safety and health software standards relevant in the UK (e.g., DCB0129/0160) and regulatory expectations for safe deployment of clinical software.
• Experience supporting regulatory submissions (Technical Files, Design Dossiers, or equivalent) and responding to regulator queries on software documentation.
• Experience working in small, growing organisations with ambiguity where flexibility is valued.
• Expert understanding of software quality and experience leading quality improvement across cross-functional teams.
• Track record of mentoring both senior and early-career engineers.

This advert will close on Wednesday 10th September at 4pm.

Benefits

• Generous Pension Scheme - employer contributions of up to 12%.
• 30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays - flexible holiday allowance.
• Enhanced Parental Leave - supporting you during life's biggest moments.
• Cycle to Work Scheme - save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories.
• Home & Tech Savings - up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products via salary sacrifice.
• £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus.
• Wellbeing Support - Mental Health First Aiders, 24/7 online GP services, and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family.
• A Great Place to Work - Central London office in Holborn with flexible and remote working arrangements.

Join us - let's prevent disease together.

At Our Future Health, we recognise the importance of a diverse workforce and equitable access to our application process. We encourage applicants who identify as having a disability, neurodiversity, or long-term health conditions to request reasonable adjustments as part of the application process. If you require any reasonable adjustments, please email