Senior Product Manager - Data & Platform Products - 12 Month FTC (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds and London)

Company Description

Genomics England is a global leader in enabling genomic medicine and research, focused on creating a world where everyone benefits from genomic healthcare. Building on the 100,000 Genomes Project, we support the NHS’s world-first national whole genome sequencing service and run the growing National Genomic Research Library, alongside delivering numerous major genomics initiatives. By connecting research and clinical care at national scale, we enable immediate healthcare benefits and advances for the future. 

Our mission is to provide the evidence and digital systems so that by 2035 genomics could play a role in up to half of all healthcare interactions, whilst securing the UK’s position as the best place to discover, prove and benefit from genomic innovations. 

We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody. 

Behind the Healthcare and Research outcomes, Genomics England delivers through designing, developing and operating complex healthcare software systems. 

We're on the cusp of big changes with the real prospect of genomics becoming the fabric of everyday healthcare through the lifetime - from birth to old age.

Job Description

Help shape the platform behind the UK's national clinical and genomic infrastructure 

At Genomics England, we're building the digital foundations that enable genomic medicine at scale. 

We're looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager to lead a portfolio of platform products that underpin the Healthcare Genomics Service. These are not end-user facing product - they are the critical data stores, APIs and shared capabilities that other engineering teams and healthcare systems depend on every day. 

If you're excited by platform product strategy, enabling complex systems, and working alongside exceptional engineers to solve difficult technical problems with real-world impact, we'd love to hear from you. 

The opportunity 

You'll own a portfolio of production platform products that support genomic data processing and access across the Healthcare Genomics Service. 

This is a highly technical platform product role, best suited to Product Managers with proven experience working on internal platforms, infrastructure or developer tooling, rather than customer facing products. You'll make both tactical and strategic decisions that improve reliability, scalability and developer experience across multiple teams, balancing today's operational needs with long-term platform evolution. 

You'll work at the intersection of product, engineering and architecture - shaping capabilities that enable the wider organisation to move faster while maintaining the consistency and high standards required in a regulated healthcare environment. 

What you'll be doing 

• Lead the vision, strategy and roadmap for shared platform products, ensuring their capabilities deliver measurable value across Genomics England and the wider NHS ecosystem. 

• Work closely with engineers and technical leads to shape scalable, API-first services and reusable platform capabilities. 

• Balance platform evolution, operational stability, technical debt and new delivery against organisational priorities. 

• Work with peers to define a clear long-term platform product strategy, and drive migration away from legacy components towards that strategic future. 

• Use data and meaningful outcome measures to understand platform health and impact. 

• Partner across multiple teams to identify common capabilities, reduce duplication and improve developer experience. 

• Operate confidently in a complex, regulated environment with strong governance and assurance requirements. 

• Build trusted relationships with technical and business stakeholders, making transparent prioritisation and trade-off decisions. 

• Mentor product managers and contribute to product excellence across the organisation. 

What we're looking for 

We're looking for someone who will embrace a role owning platform products. 

You will likely have: 

• Experience owning shared platform, infrastructure or data products used by multiple teams. 

• Strong systems thinking and the ability to understand complex technical landscapes. 

• Experience defining product strategy and translating it into measurable outcomes and roadmaps. 

• Confidence working closely with engineering teams on APIs, platform capabilities and long-term technical evolution. 

• Experience balancing reliability, scalability, operational excellence and product investment. 

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills in technically complex environments. 

• A pragmatic, outcome-focused approach to decision making under ambiguity. 

Experience in healthcare or genomics is helpful but not essential. We're more interested in your ability to lead complex technical products and collaborate effectively with engineering teams. 

Why join us? 

As an experienced Senior Product Manager with strong technical expertise, you'll have the opportunity to shape data and platform products that form part of the UK's national genomics infrastructure and contribute to technology that directly supports live healthcare service and research. 

This is an opportunity to work on genuinely challenging platform problems with talented engineers in a truly mission-driven organisation, where your decisions will have organisation-wide impact rather than being limited to a single product or feature. 

Please note: This role is offered as a 12-month fixed-term contract aligned to a major strategic programme of work. While we cannot guarantee future funding or extensions, there is a substantial programme of work beyond the initial term.

Qualifications

While your qualifications are certainly important and provide a foundation, we're particularly interested in understanding the breadth and depth of your overall experience, particularly your experience leading technical platform, infrastructure and data products while working closely with engineering teams, as this gives us a clearer picture of what you can bring to the role.

Additional Information

Salary From: £86,100
Please Note: This is a 12-Month FTC (Fixed Term Contract)
Closing Date: Sunday 19th July @ 23:00 (UK Time)

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including: 

• Generous Leave:  30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
• Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
• Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), and a Give As You Earn scheme.
• Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
• Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
• Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.

Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace 

Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background. 

Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.  

Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties. Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity. 

We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process, we encourage you to discuss this with us. 

Culture

We have four key behaviours that represent what we would like Genomics England to feel like and the culture we want to encourage, in order for us to achieve our mission. These behaviours help us all work well together, deliver on our outcomes, celebrate our successes and share feedback with each other. You can read about these and other aspects of our culture here Culture | Genomics England

Blended working model

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring. We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require full time on site attendance e.g., lab teams, reception team. 

Our teams and squads have, and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are: Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

Onboarding background checks

As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.  We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.