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# Senior Data Engineer (Data Management)

- **Company:** Recursion
- **Location:** Weston-super-Mare, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £75,900.0 - £101,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), C Sharp (Programming Language), Data Infrastructure, Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, Core Data, Data Management, Data Pipelines, Programming Languages
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840621012-senior-data-engineer-data-management

## About the Role

* Experience building systems to process SAR and/or chemical structures from either public or private datasets (professional experience and/or PhD level experience will be considered).
 * Degree in Biology / Chemistry or related field (i.e Biochemistry, molecular biology, etc.).
 * Experience of a commonly used programming language (i.e. Python, Java, C#, etc.).
 * Proficient in using SQL for common data management applications.

Nice To Have Experience

 * Experience using agentic coding tools in a production setting.
 * Experience using common Cheminformatics toolkits (RDKit, OpenEye, etc.).

## Description

* Build and maintain core data management infrastructure. You will be joining a multi-disciplinary team of data managers, software engineers, and scientists, who are responsible for building and maintaining critical data infrastructure and data pipelines which underpin all discovery efforts at Recursion. You will be a key advocate for FAIR principles ensuring high quality data and its reusability.
 * Turn automated drug discovery into a reality. You will work closely with colleagues from across the company pushing the boundaries of what is possible to work towards an automated DMTL process. You will build and maintain automations, including agentic systems, to significantly reduce the day-to-day manual effort required from the data management team.

In This Role, You Will

 * Contribute to the development of essential SAR and chemical registration systems.
 * Collaborate closely with engineers, data managers, and scientists to understand their requirements and help build solutions to their day-to-day data management needs.

You will be joining the UK DMTL engineering team which includes the Recursion data management team. The team is responsible for building and operating our global SAR and chemical registration systems that form our Centaur Register product. The team is also responsible for building the user facing component of our small molecule design product - Centaur Chemist. This team is also building a unique control system for our DMTL labs located in Milton Park which is driving our efforts to automate the DMTL loop.


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