technology specialist London, England
Job description
About us
Information Services Division (ISD) is the primary provider of IT services to UCL. We support and enhance learning, teaching, research and administrative processes by providing information- and technology-related services to over 50,000 staff and students of UCL and associated institutions.
Our ambition is to be the leading IT services group in the HE sector and we are growing our team’s capability in experience/UX, agile development, security, cloud, service management and partnering. We are modernising our technology foundations, digitising the processes of the university to transform experience for students and staff, and partnering across the university to drive differentiation in UCL education and research.
Faculty IT & Partnering provides local specialist applications and systems support and IT strategic business partnering for users in the School of Life and Medical Sciences (SLMS), in the Institute of Education (IOE), the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment and to departments in the Faculties of Arts & Humanities, Social & Historical Sciences and Laws (SLASH).
Advance Centre for Research Computing (ARC) is UCL's centre for digital research infrastructure and innovation: the software, supercomputers, data and skills that underpin computational science and digital scholarship across the college. We are an innovative hybrid: a professional services department that delivers reliable and secure infrastructure and services to UCL research groups, and a laboratory for research and innovation in the application of advanced computational and data-intensive research methods, working in partnership with academics from all fields. We are a home for the research technology professionals - research software engineers, HPC systems engineers, dev-ops specialists, data engineers, data scientists and data stewards - who support and collaborate in the delivery of UCL research, providing outstanding career development opportunities for these new kinds of research professionals.
About the role
This is a fantastic opportunity to join UCL’s Information Services Division (ISD) in a newly created position to support the Social Sciences as a Research Technology Specialist which sits with both UCL ARC, and UCL ISD.
The UCL Centre for Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is UCL’s new institute for infrastructure and innovation in digital research – the supercomputers, datasets, software, and people that make computational science and digital scholarship possible.
You will be part of ARC’s community of staff scientists and research technology professionals, both delivering the services and systems which make data and compute-intensive research possible, and discovering and innovating new tools, practices, and systems in this field. Our positioning as a hybrid of a research institute and service centre means these activities will be synergistic.
As a Research Technology Specialist, you will be involved in providing support services and maintaining specialised application services for social science faculties using your expertise in high-performance research computing technologies, data management practices, and programming languages relevant to the faculty's research fields. Additionally, you'll collaborate ARC teams to ensure the central platforms effectively support the faculty's needs. This role combines research and professional service responsibilities, including supporting the academic community, offering specialised advice, and managing system security.
In the event we get a high number of applications, we may close the advert early before the published closing date. As a minimum we will keep all adverts open for 2 weeks.
Job Ref: B01-03429
Closing Date: 27-07-2023 – 23:59 (UK time)
About you
As an infrastructure professional with expertise in research computing technologies (such as RStudio, Jupyter, Julia, ArcGIS, MPI, Apache Spark), you have technical skills in high-performance or high-throughput research computing technologies, data management practices, and programming languages (Python, C, Fortan, Matlab etc.) used in various research fields. You have previously delivered support services and maintained specialist application services and additionally have the ability to collaborate with research computing teams to ensure central platforms effectively support researcher needs.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
- 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
- Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- Immigration loan
- Relocation scheme for certain posts
- On-Site nursery
- On-site gym
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.
These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
