Purpose of the post

HDR UK requires the services of an experienced Senior Full Stack Research Software Engineer to work within its technology team. You will work across a range of HDR UK technical solutions including the Health Data Research Gateway, the Disease Atlas, Researcher Registry, Phenotype Library, Cohort Discovery and future technology services.  

This role may suit someone with an academic research software engineering background who would like to bring their domain knowledge to the Gateway and Technology Ecosystem.

You will be part of a multidisciplinary team that develops an over-arching interoperable infrastructure to ensure that UK health data assets are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reuseable (FAIR) and accessible for research, innovation and clinical trials. The successful candidate will be expected to work within an Agile software development team, providing development of infrastructure and services to deliver scientific insights, that improve health and healthcare of the UK and worldwide populations.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide individual contribution as a full stack hands-on developer, work within the Gateway and wider Technology Ecosystem development teams, carry out code review & quality checks and document as required. Ideally the post will also bring their health data domain knowledge to the teams and have a desire to publish academic papers.

As a senior full stack research software engineer (RSE), the successful candidate will act across the four pillars of research software engineering: software development, training, community and policy. The post will leverage existing health data domain knowledge to gain a deep understanding of the current and future needs of the Gateway and the wider Technology Ecosystem. Together with others in HDR UK community, the post will help identify and prototype new ways in which it can be extended and improved. The scope and breadth of research that is made possible by health data is rapidly expanding, as are the technologies employed for their analysis. Accordingly, the Technology Ecosystem must adapt, develop, and anticipate demands of future health data researchers, and research software engineering plays a critical role in developing awareness and building capacity to realise this. The post will help both by developing RSE policies and practices within the HDR UK community and strengthening networks between HDR UK and relevant researcher/practitioner communities across the life sciences, informatics, and beyond.

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