Data Services Manager
- Employer
- Global Academy Jobs
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Closing date
- Feb 21, 2018
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- Sector
- Business and Finance, Science, Computer Science and IT, Information Science and Technology
- Hours
- Full Time
- Organization Type
- University and College
- Jobseeker Type
- Academic (e.g. 'Lecturer')
Job Details
Do you have excellent IT delivery and leadership skills that can be tuned to the specialist needs of researchers?
Are you interested in leading a team that maintains and develops one of the University’s key research platforms?
As Data Services Manager you will have a unique opportunity to support Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA) ambitious plans to drive forward data analytics at Leeds, and be part of a global movement to ensure the effective use of data to drive research, policy development and public good initiatives. You will develop the Data Services support and delivery function and take a lead role in continuously improving the IRC technology platform and service, enabling research on sensitive data through infrastructure, training and services for secure data handling. As Data Services Manager you will also use your skills and experience managing a team of Software Development and Application Support staff to ensure that projects are delivered on time, to budget and provide high quality technical support.LIDA unites research groups, data scientists and postgraduate students from disciplines across the University to create opportunities to understand health & human behaviour and tackle a wide range of social and environmental problems. LIDA also undertakes partnership-working with the private, public and charitable sectors.LIDA was formed from two “Big Data” grants that established the MRC Bioinformatics Centre (MBC) and the ESRC Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) which comprise researchers from medicine, biological sciences, environmental sciences, geography, transport studies and many others. The MBC focuses on research at the interface between the clinic and high volume molecular and phenotypic data sets. The CDRC, a partnership with UCL, Liverpool and Oxford Universities, seeks to open up consumer data resources, deriving value from new sources of data to benefit business, government & society.Big Data analytics is now recognised as a major driver of growth in academic research and in the economy at large. We have made a significant investment in client-server and high performance computer platforms with peta-scale memory, storage and an environment designed to meet stringent access and information governance requirements.It is therefore essential that as Data Services Manager you have significant experience in research software development including substantial knowledge of the principles, methods, techniques and tools used throughout the research lifecycle.
To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact: Barry Haynes, Head of Strategy and ArchitectureTel: +44 (0)113 343 2848, Email: it-hr@leeds.ac.uk
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