Senior Software Engineer

Salary: £45,585 to £48,350 with progression to £54,395 per annum

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

Closing Date: 07 May 2024

The Role

The UK’s National Innovation Centre for Ageing at Newcastle University has been funded by Government and the University to create a world in which we all live better, for longer. We team with innovation experts, industry, academics and the public, to identify, develop and bring to market data driven innovative business models, services and products enhancing life as we age and developing new economic opportunities for organisations while promoting positive impact on society at scale.

We wish to ramp-up the Centre’s Ageing Intelligencetm mission to develop software-based solutions dedicated to the ageing population and their stakeholders. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.

We are looking for a specialist senior software engineer with expertise in artificial intelligence/machine learning (ML).

For informal enquiries, please contact NICA’s IT & Digital Programme Manager richard.airey@newcastle.ac.uk

To apply, please complete the online application and attach a CV and covering letter. In your covering letter please outline how you are either working towards, meet or exceed all of the requirements for this role and the essential criteria in the Knowledge, Skills and Experience section below. Provide examples and highlight expertise relevant to the role.  Also provide a link to your portfolio of your work if available.

We are a world class research-intensive university. We deliver teaching and learning of the highest quality. We play a leading role in economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England. Attracting and retaining high-calibre people is fundamental to our continued success.

What’s in it for you? Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

Key Accountabilities

• To be the technical lead on:
  • NICA’s ‘digitizing the human experience’ project which aims to develop and optimise data ingestion pipelines through the application of ML driven processing to automate the capture, extraction and anonymisation of data
• To provide technical input into the development of the analytics module of the VOICE global platform
• Work on custom research projects, providing leadership on approach and methodology
• Collaborate with development teams, and product managers to ideate software solutions
• Recommend methods and process that will improve data reliability, efficiency and quality
• To be the technical lead in NICA projects that fall within your area of specialism
• Provide expert guidance and advice to the wider technical team regarding the selection and use of software and data infrastructure on a project-by-project basis
• Provide expert advice and assistance to the wider NICA team regarding the development and scoping of software related projects
• Maintain and develop extensive knowledge to keep abreast of the latest/most relevant technologies
• Any other duties within the scope and general nature of the grade which may be required

The Person

Knowledge, Skills and Experience 

• Extensive experience or taught specialism in one or more areas of Software Engineering including, but not limited to: Visualization, Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
• Software development experience in a commercial or research environment
• Well versed in agile engineering best practices, including version control (GIT), test-driven development and continuous integration
• Track record of developing software that is used by others
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to present complex or technical information and the ability to work with others to understand technical and user requirements
• Experience of working in multidisciplinary technical team
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Desirable

• Understanding of a range of data manipulation methods and tools
• Experience of working in wide variety of application domains
• Experience within the Laravel ecosystem (i.e. Livewire, Inertia, Jetstream etc.)
• Experience of developing applications that adopt a serverless approach
• Experience of container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience of mobile app development 

Qualifications

• Degree within a related field, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or equivalent

Newcastle University is a global University where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.  As a University of Sanctuary, we aim to provide a welcoming place of safety for all, offering opportunities to people fleeing violence and persecution.

We are committed to being a fully inclusive university which actively recruits, supports and retains colleagues from all sectors of society.  We value diversity as well as celebrate, support and thrive on the contributions of all of our employees and the communities they represent.  We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams, we believe that success is built on having teams whose backgrounds and experiences reflect the diversity of our university and student population.

At Newcastle University we hold a silver Athena Swan award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality.  We also hold a Race Equality Charter Bronze award in recognition of our work towards tackling race inequality in higher education REC.  We are a Disability Confident employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role as part of the offer and interview scheme.

In addition, we are a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe. 

Requisition ID: 26864

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