About this role
In University of Leeds's Software Engineering area, there is an opening for a Research Software Engineer, Faculty of Medicine & Health in Leeds, United Kingdom. The work falls under Software Engineering, so the day-to-day sits squarely in that field. The hybrid setup means some days on-site and some days working remotely. The role is pitched at senior, so that is the experience band the employer has in mind. A solid option for Software Engineering work based in Leeds.
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Job Overview
Job description provided by University of Leeds.
The University of Leeds is hiring a Research Software Engineer in the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics, based on the university campus with scope for hybrid working.
The post is Grade 7, full time and fixed term for 12 months to provide temporary cover, with secondment considered for internal staff.
Working in the Data Analytics Team, you will work with researchers from across the university on technical software development, data management and cloud computing to accelerate productivity, improve research outcomes and generate societal impact.
You will also take the lead on the day-to-day running of the university's Trusted Research Environment, contributing to new research proposals, collaboratively designing and implementing project workflows and helping improve the service while ensuring compliance with university policy.
Duties include defining research project data analytics requirements, managing a portfolio of data analytics research projects through the research management lifecycle, and managing the set-up, access and monitoring of new projects on the institute's Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
You will contribute directly to research, manage project delivery and provide expert advice on data handling, data manipulation, data linkage, data curation and quality standards.
You will also develop and optimise new techniques and software in a range of programming languages, and work with information governance to design and implement data security policies covering ISO27001, the NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit and GDPR.
Candidates need experience managing data analytics activity across projects, understanding of cloud computing, data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and programming languages for data analytics such as Python, R or Stata.
Experience managing and handling sensitive data within a structured and secure environment, undertaking data security risk assessments, and familiarity with tools for handling data at scale such as Dask or Apache Spark are also required.