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Burns Sheehan

Burns Sheehan

Data Engineer

London Hybrid 2-5 yrs exp Staffing and Recruiting 49 employees£60k – £80k / year
PythonSQLETL/ELT PipelinesLLM APIsAI-powered Data Workflows

Requirements

Candidates need strong Python and SQL skills with experience building production ETL/ELT pipelines. Experience with LLM APIs, AI workflows, and healthcare or life sciences data is highly advantageous.

Job Description

Data Engineer | AI-Driven HealthTech | London | Up to £70k + Equity


I’m working with a fast-growing, early-stage HealthTech business that is building a data intelligence platform for the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry.

They’re now hiring a Data Engineer to join a small, high-calibre engineering team and take real ownership of the data pipelines that sit behind the product.


This isn’t a role maintaining an established warehouse or working through a backlog of tickets. You’ll be working with large volumes of messy, complex healthcare data, building and refactoring production pipelines, and using AI within those workflows to extract, classify, clean and validate information.


What they’re looking for:

  • Strong Python and SQL
  • Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines in production
  • Comfortable working with structured and unstructured data
  • Experience with LLM APIs / AI-powered data workflows would be highly relevant
  • Exposure to scraping, data acquisition, schema design, deduplication or entity resolution
  • Healthcare, pharma or life sciences data experience is a big advantage
  • Someone autonomous, curious and comfortable figuring things out in an early-stage environment


They’re much more interested in what you’ve owned and built than a specific number of years’ experience.

📍 London, 4 days a week in the office

💰 Up to £70k base, with flexibility for an exceptional profile

📈 Equity available

🛂 Sponsorship can be considered

⏱️ Short notice strongly preferred


A really good opportunity for a Data Engineer who wants more ownership, direct product impact and exposure to applied AI rather than being one engineer in a huge data function.


Drop me a message if you’d like to hear more.

Skills

PythonSQLETL/ELT PipelinesLLM APIsAI-powered Data WorkflowsWeb ScrapingData AcquisitionSchema DesignDeduplicationEntity ResolutionStructured DataUnstructured Data

About Burns Sheehan

Established back in 2004, Burns Sheehan is a specialist technology recruitment agency based in London & Manchester. We partner with growing organisations with a compelling story to tell and connect them with world-class tech talent across the UK and Europe, creating industry-leading teams across Software Engineering, Data & AI, Product & Delivery, Platform Engineering & Infrastructure, C-Suite & Leadership. Whether you're scaling up with multiple hires, seeking a game-changing executive, or building out a brand-new squad, our flexible hiring solutions can be tailored to your specific needs. We’re all about building relationships that last the test of time and being our networks go-to advisors for market insights, community events and world-class technologists. 🔍 Explore our latest opportunities, events and insights at www.burnssheehan.co.uk 📬 For monthly hiring insights for People & Talent Leaders, sign up to our newsletter: https://info.burnssheehan.co.uk/talent-crunch-newsletter