The National Archives Hiring for Research Software Engineer Job at London, England Full Time

TNA is looking for two Research Software Engineers (RSEs) to join a 3-year cutting-edge research project, Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people’s national collection, part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s programme Towards a National Collection: Opening UK Heritage to the World (TaNC). The project will bring together a powerful partnership, including researchers in digital humanities, archives, history, linguistics, and computer science at our HEI partners, the Universities of Glasgow and Manchester, with world-leading archive and digital infrastructure development at The National Archives (TNA), the project’s lead Independent Research Organisation (IRO).

We are looking for creative and self-motivated Research Software Engineers with interests in areas such as human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence and linked open data. You should be committed to software development best practices, and know how to adapt these for research contexts. You will need to have excellent communication skills and a talent for technical problem solving. You will be working within a multi-disciplinary team that will follow an agile way of working to deliver software tools and end-user services to support the project.

We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community and from people of diverse ages, experience and backgrounds, including people with disabilities. We are keen to explore the widest possible pool of talent for all our roles.

Our place of work is in the beautiful surroundings of Kew, a 10-minute walk from Underground and Overground stations. A combination of onsite and home working is available and applicants should be able to regularly travel to our Kew site. TNA boasts a collegial working environment and the excellent Civil Service benefits package. This includes flexible working, an on-site gym, wellbeing resources, and an opportunity to join the Civil Service Alpha Pension Scheme. Putting people at the forefront of our organisation, we are committed to enabling professional development and training for all our colleagues.

This is a full time post. However, requests for part-time working, flexible working and job share will be considered, taking into account at all times the operational needs of the Department.

HOW TO APPLY: Please use the link below to access the advert on Civil Service Jobs, where you can download a full job description and apply directly by clicking the green ‘Apply now’ button.

https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jcode=1751173

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term
Contract length: 34 months

Salary: £42,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Discounted or free food
• Flexible schedule
• On-site parking
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Application deadline: 15/02/2022