Job Summary
You will work as part of a team building and maintaining bespoke infrastructure and software applications across disease management databases, simulation models for disease control policy, and specialist scientific computing infrastructure for the Defra group. The role involves managing delivery of technical science projects – negotiating scope, planning, monitoring delivery, quality‑assuring outputs, ensuring maintenance and supporting effective resource allocation.
Key Responsibilities
* Successful design and delivery of IT systems.
* Management of existing systems.
* Management of guidance documents, risks and issues.
* Provide technical assistance, support data capture, reporting and systems development.
* Utilise strong interpersonal skills to establish good working relationships with colleagues, internal and external customers, and wider stakeholders.
* Assist in the personal development of less experienced junior developers through sharing of previous work or educational experiences.
* Communicate work outputs via excellent written and oral communication skills.
Qualifications & Experience
* Track record of deploying web‑form based solutions written in C# or VB.NET with SQL database skills.
* Experience with PowerBI, SSRS or SQL queries for data interrogation.
* Knowledge of ISO9001 standards for data capture and processing reliability.
* Ability to maintain documentation for systems including meta‑data and guide‑documents.
* Previous involvement in data management for animal disease control (e.g., bTB, TSE) is desirable.
Additional Information
This senior developer role requires both team and project management skills, software development experience and an understanding of IT systems within the scientific domain. Outputs support important capabilities concerning animal disease control in the UK.
Disability confident employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of disability.
About the Data Systems Group: A workgroup within the Department of Epidemiological Sciences with systems development, data management and GIS capability. The group undertakes the data management function within the Department and wider Science Directorate and liaises widely with epidemiologists, modellers and statisticians both internally and externally.
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