About the Role

The Earlham Institute is seeking a highly skilled BioFAIR Architect to join our team. As a key member of our Directorate Office Department, you will play a crucial role in the development and operation of a federated digital research infrastructure connecting existing life sciences infrastructures.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the BioFAIR initiative, collaborating with technical leaders in the BioFAIR spokes and across the UK life sciences community.
• Establish a strong community-led culture of collaboration and collective responsibility.
• Develop a clear modular architecture that can be deployed and operated at scale, and adapt to the changing requirements of UK life science researchers.
• Refine key technical requirements and work with technical teams in the spokes to ensure consistent and cohesive delivery.
• Build and maintain excellent technical relationships and focus on building a flexible, distributed infrastructure assembling from best-of-breed capability from across the UK.

Objectives of the BioFAIR Project

• Drive adoption of FAIR principles and open data across the UK life sciences to provide high-quality FAIR datasets ready for uptake and reuse.
• Defragmentation: Increase coordination, collaboration, and cohesiveness of the UK's life sciences related data landscape, enhancing its effectiveness and efficiency.
• Access: Enable democratised access to data and data methods within UK life sciences via a national capability.
• Skills: Attract, develop, and retain excellent research data management skills and capacity for UK life sciences.
• Data reuse: Improve the efficiency of research and enable new research by increased re-use of data in the life sciences.

Requirements

• Track record of building federated infrastructures and services through collaboration and cooperation.
• Ability to work with stakeholders to refine key technical requirements and work with technical teams in the spokes to ensure consistent and cohesive delivery.
• Strong technical leadership skills and ability to build and maintain excellent technical relationships.

What We Offer

• Salary on appointment will be within the range £70,560 to £88,250 per annum depending on qualifications and experience.
• Full-time post for a contract of 60 months.
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment with a team of experts in the field of bioinformatics and data management.