Senior Research Data Scientist (IIDSAI)

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £46,485 to £55,295 with potential progression once in post to £62,098

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to July 2028 

Background

Advanced Research Computing (ARC), at the University of Birmingham, is seeking to appoint a Senior Research Data Scientist, funded by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Science and AI (IIDSAI). IIDSAI is a focal point for collaborative research and education at the University of Birmingham. Working across all five Colleges, the Institute is developing and fostering a culture of continuous interaction to address important challenges in areas including sustainability, equality, health, and data-driven science. We are building on a foundation of excellence in methodology including, for example, modelling, statistics, machine learning and optimisation.

Advanced Research Computing (ARC) builds and runs a range of specialist services for researchers, collectively known as the Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR). Serving all disciplines, BEAR covers an increasingly broad spectrum of needs, ranging from the traditional HPC through data storage and archiving requirements to tools for collaboration and analytics as well as offering ‘on premises’ cloud and web-based data science tools.

Role Summary

The Senior Research Data Scientist will join a strong and dynamic group of Research Data Scientists, Research Software Engineers, Research Applications Specialists and DevOps Engineers with a particular focus on supporting researchers. The postholder will collaborate closely with researchers from many different academic disciplines and will provide expert knowledge and skills to analyse, visualise, explore, and extract knowledge from all kinds of research data.

We will encourage and support you in developing your skills, both through formal training and with mentoring from highly skilled colleagues within ARC. You will work in a helpful and collaborative environment, interacting with other team members doing similar tasks and sharing knowhow on a daily basis.

We welcome candidates looking for flexible working patterns. There is an expectation that candidates will spend at least two days on our campus each week and any flexible patterns will need to be agreed in advance.

Person Specification

• Formal education to degree level or equivalent, preferably in a subject with a strong software development component.
• Relevant experience carrying out or supporting data science, data engineering or informatics projects, preferably in a research environment.
• Supporting researchers with complex requirements is desirable.
• Broad and deep knowledge of data science or data engineering processes, tools and techniques.
• Broad and deep knowledge of database technologies or data management would be an advantage.
• Broad and deep knowledge of data visualisation processes, tools and techniques would be an advantage.

Informal enquires please contact Andrew Edmondson via a.c.edmondson@bham.ac.uk

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We value diversity and inclusion at the University of Birmingham and welcome applications from all sections of the community and are open to discussions around all forms of flexible working

Closes: 12/01/2025

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