About IT Services
IT Services at the University of Manchester is a vibrant and fast-moving department, we focus on delivering excellent customer service and quality services for our staff, students, and researchers.
Find out more about our organisation and values:
The Team
Research IT provides research-focussed, specialist computing infrastructure, software engineering, data science, application support and training to researchers across a wide range of domains, who have diverse technical requirements. The Research Software Engineering team within Research IT is responsible for providing a range of software engineering services including engineering, consultancy, and training. Research IT comprise a friendly, open, inclusive, and diverse group of skilled people within a passion for helping others and delivering world-class research.
The Role
As a member of the Research IT software engineering team, you will be responsible for carrying out end-to-end software engineering within Research IT and the University’s research community. You will work on multiple projects, from weeks to months in duration, from conception to completion, getting to the heart of some of the world’s most important challenges and applying cutting-edge knowledge through software. This may involve gathering requirements, designing, building, testing, deploying, documenting, and maintaining software in a wide range of domains. Recent projects within the team include brain scan analysis for stroke research, modelling river deltas, workflow development for a major cancer research trial, visualisations to aid COVID triage, text mining old Arabic texts, and providing an interface to a new optometric device.
In addition to the above, one of the roles offered will require the successful candidate to spend part of their time assigned to the Application Support and Training Team. This team provide specialist support and advice to researchers through the triage and handling of research-related IT queries, and the development and delivery of training courses from introductory to advanced levels.
The Person
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:
When addressing the person specification criteria in your application for this role, please ensure you refer to the specific requirements above.
As an equal-opportunity employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.
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Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here
Blended working arrangements may be considered
Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.
Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:
Name: Dr Adrian Harwood
Email: [email protected]
General enquiries:
Email: [email protected]
Technical support:
https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home
This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.
Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.
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