Analyst Programmer

The Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit (CRCTU) maintains a Trial Programming Team to support data collection and cleaning for clinical trials, to support the management of the organisation and to support other functions that require software to be developed. Many stakeholders are not particularly IT literate, having a medical/bioscience background and so the explanation of software designs is critical. Systems are documented and validated using a formal Functional Requirement Specification (FRS). This role is not an academic role.

The post holder's main responsibilities are to analyse, design, develop, test, implement and support database applications to support the running of the CRCTU using ASP.NET with SQL server. The post holder will be expert in developing ASP.NET (either using VB or C#) systems with SQL server. The post holder will provide expertise in the design and development of these systems collaborating closely with the Trial Coordinator(s), Statisticians and other stakeholders. Quality is controlled by testing. The post holder will be expected to test the work of other team members. All work will be supervised by the Trial Programming Team Leader aided by the Senior Analyst Programmers within the framework of the Team's operating procedures, standards and using the team's metadata repository and code generation tools.

Person Specification

• A degree in computer science, related discipline or equivalent professional qualifications.
• 1-2 years' experience of development using VB.NET and/or C# in creating ASP.NET systems.
• 1-2 years' experience of SQL Server programming.
• Expert and demonstrable understanding and application of object oriented analysis and design.
• Expert and demonstrable experience of database development.
• Basic project management skills (assessing scale, scope, timelines and prioritising work based on stakeholder requirements). `
• The ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Able to communicate technical matters to people with a wide range of computer literacy.
• Able to work to deadlines, without close supervision and within a team.
• Willingness to acquire new skills and understanding.
• Prior, demonstrable, experience of developing management information systems, or project management or project monitoring systems.Prior, demonstrable, experience of data processing and report writing, preferably of management or project information.

Informal enquiries to Charlotte Chapman c.d.chapman@bham.ac.uk