Head of Biomedical Research Software
2 months ago
**Salary**: £56,021 to £59,421 with progression to £64,914 per annum
Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.
**Closing Date**: 06 December 2023
The Role
Newcastle University has an opening for Head of Biomedical Research Software in the Haniffa Lab.
The team works in the Biosciences Institute, and with a range of external partners including the Wellcome Sanger Institute. The Haniffa Lab applies disruptive techniques to understand how the immune system develops and maintains health. You will be responsible for leading the dry lab team and providing high-level strategic leadership for the provision of Research Software Engineering (RSE) services for the lab.
You will ultimately be responsible for leading the delivery of technical projects through the management and allocation of resources across multiple simultaneous projects, including the creation of new opportunities, grant writing, reporting and supervision of multiple senior professional staff and academics.
You will have an PhD in a computationally based field (equivalent experience or close to completion), as well as proven experience of software development. You will also have extensive experience leading large, complex, cross organisational projects.
The Haniffa lab is a leader in the international Human Cell Atlas initiative to systematically map all cells in the body and across the lifespan. Our lab applies disruptive omics technologies to study human cells at single-cell resolution. We make use of state-of-the-art single cell technologies, to understand how the immune system develops and maintains health, and study the consequences of infection, inflammation and disease. We provide a multifaceted computing infrastructure including a powerful LSF cluster, GPU access, an OpenStack cloud architecture, and easy access to interactive notebooks for convenient day-to-day data analysis.
This is a full time post (40 hours per week), fixed term until 31 October 2024
Key Accountabilities
Responsibility for leading the delivery of dry lab team activities, assisting and advising through the use of significant technical skills, project management and strategic vision
Create and maintain structures and professional relationships with other University stakeholders, to support research output and service delivery
Line management of senior professional services staff and academics, management of team workload including resource allocation and project forecasting
To maintain a close working relationship with the centralised University RSE team. Working to support and promote shared aims and objectives
Development of external relationships, and promotion of research activities to the national and international scientific community
Engagement with national and international RSE communities, specifically with initiatives for open and reproducible science
To be the technical lead in large research funding bids, providing expertise on requirements and feasibility
To lead on the selection of technologies and system architectures to deliver software solutions to large research projects
Collaborate with researchers and engineers to design appropriate technical solutions to research problems
Present work and provide updates, including the effective communication of complex or technical information, at project meetings and events
Contribute to the learning and development of the dry lab, and other communities that write software code in the Biosciences Institute, through the provision of documentation, training and advice in order to support the wider research community
Represent the Biosciences Institute, Haniffa Lab, Newcastle University RSE team, and the wider University, and disseminate information about its work at national and international events
Undertake relevant training activities in order to develop technical, leadership and management skills
Maintain and develop knowledge to keep updated with relevant changes in the national and international software engineering community
Any other duties within the scope and general nature of the grade which may be required
The Person (Essential)
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Extensive experience or taught specialism in one or more areas of Software Engineering. Including, but not limited to; Cloud Computing, Visualization, Web Applications, Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence.
Software development experience in a research or commercial environment
Understanding of software development tools and methodologies, including programming languages, documentation, testing, version control, issue tracking, and continuous integration
Track record of developing software that is used by others
Ability to manage own work, including planning and execution
Excellent communication skills including the ability to present complex or tech
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