Senior Research Software Engineer

Department: Barts Cancer Institute
Salary: £52,549 - £58,595 per annum (Grade 6)
Reference: 2188
Location: Charterhouse Square
Date posted: 15 May 2024
Closing date: 30 May 2024

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About the Role

In this role, you will have the opportunity to showcase the project's achievements by sharing your expertise with internal and external stakeholders. You will actively engage in software engineering activities, fostering knowledge exchange and collaboration within the RSE community at the college and beyond. Alongside enhancing the team's development methodologies, you will demonstrate exceptional communication skills, ensuring effective collaboration and information dissemination.

About You

As a Senior Research Software Engineer at the Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine (CECM), Queen Mary University London, you will utilize your professional expertise to effectively deliver research software and databases. Your primary responsibility will be to lead and make significant contributions to the development of clinical trial software, electronic data capture systems, and databases. The post holder will collaborate closely with the BCI technical team, playing a crucial role in improving and maintaining the institute's software, while promoting best practices in research software engineering (RSE) community.

About the Institute/Project

The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry offers international excellence in research and teaching and supports clinical service for a population of unrivalled ethnic diversity in East London and the wider Thames Gateway.¿  At the forefront of medical research and education, with research themes in cancer, cardiovascular medicine, inflammation, trauma and population health, the faculty is ranked 2nd in the 2021 QS World University rankings for research citations and consistently positioned first in London for subject rankings and student satisfaction. Working with six NHS Trust partners in East London, the Faculty is central to delivering impact on health-related challenges for local and global populations; it has a strong commitment to public engagement through its pioneering science education centre in Whitechapel, The Centre of the Cell.  The faculty is firmly embedded in our East End and global communities, and through education and research we are committed to improving the health outcomes, the wellbeing, and the prosperity of those we serve through a strategy focused on Better Health for All.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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