Location: | Swansea |
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Salary: | £32,411 to £36,333 Grade 07 per annum together with USS benefits |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 20th March 2023 |
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Closes: | 11th April 2023 |
Job Ref: | AC05916 |
Contract: Fixed Term until 30th April 2024. Full-time
Location: Singleton Campus
To deliver its sustainable top 30 ambition Swansea University needs a professional services workforce with the differentiated skills necessary to ensure that it can deliver excellence through efficient and effective systems and processes that harness innovations in technology.
The UKSeRP (UK Secure Research Platform) is a technology set developed within the Population Data Science group within the Swansea University Medical School. Swansea University participates with organisations in the UK and globally, to distribute knowledge and experience around the platform. To assist with the storing and secure sharing of research datasets for the purpose of assisting research activity.
Following the success of supporting the SAIL databank, the infrastructure used to provide SAIL databank was identified as being suitable to host datasets for other research groups within Swansea and following interest from organisations in Australian and Canada, implementation exist in 2 locations outside of the UK.
The technical team within the Population Data Science Group develop solutions to aid research activity and improve the accessibility to research datasets by exploring the latest opportunities offered by open source and vendor based products.
The post holder will take specific responsibility for assisting the Data Manger with coordinating data streams from across the breadth of Wales. This will entail liaising across two management teams and assisting in defining, developing and maintaining a range of software applications to assist with the collection, validation and transportation of the data.
Applicants should be educated to degree level in computer science (or a related field) or have attained suitable work experience and should possess knowledge of SQL coding and/or SQL Server.
Excellent communication and organisational skills and the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with a variety of teams are key to success in this exciting and challenging role.
To apply for the post please click on 'Apply'.
Applicants are asked to provide a completed online application providing evidence against the essential criteria in the recruitment documentation.
For further information please contact Professor Simon Thompson: simon@chi.swan.ac.uk
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