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Applications are invited for a BioFAIR Architect to join the Directorate Office Department at the Earlham Institute, based in Norwich, UK.
Background:
BioFAIR is a new UK government-funded investment of £34m to develop and operate a federated digital research infrastructure connecting existing life sciences infrastructures which will largely be assembled through the integration of existing services, resources and knowledge.
BioFAIR is funded for five years and will focus on four core capabilities: Data Commons, Method Commons, Knowledge Centre, and Community Centre.
The BioFAIR’s Commons will be shared places, built to incorporate FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles and allow researchers to collaborate and connect with colleagues to work on research projects.
BioFAIR will operate as a Hub and Spoke organisation. The BioFAIR Hub will be based at the Earlham Institute, who will be responsible for coordination, establishing and managing delivery partnerships and governance.
About the role
The BioFAIR Architect will provide the key technical leadership for the initiative through collaboration with the technical leaders in the BioFAIR spokes and across from the UK life sciences community. They will work closely with the Director to provide consistent technical leadership for the project.
The Architect will be responsible for establishing a strong community-led culture of collaboration and collective responsibility. They will use the skills and experience of the delivery team to ensure a clear modular architecture that can be deployed and operated at scale, and that can adapt to the changing requirements of UK life science researchers.
This role requires a strong technical leader who can work with the stakeholders to refine key technical requirements, and can work with the technical teams in the spokes to ensure that these are delivered in a consistent and cohesive way, with production level quality. This will require the ability to build and maintain excellent technical relationships and a focus on building a flexible, distributed infrastructure assembling from best of breed capability from across the UK.
The objectives of the BioFAIR project are:
- Culture change: To drive adoption of FAIR principles and open data across the UK life sciences to provide high quality FAIR datasets ready for uptake and reuse.
- Defragmentation: To increase the coordination, collaboration and cohesiveness of the UK’s life sciences related data landscape, enhancing its effectiveness and efficiency.
- Access: To enable democratised access to data and data methods within UK life sciences via a national capability.
- Skills: To attract, develop and retain excellent research data management skills and capacity for UK life sciences.
- Data reuse: To improve the efficiency of research and enabling new research by increased re-use of data in the life sciences.
The ideal candidate:
The post holder will have a degree in a relevant discipline and practical knowledge of modern compute, storage and cloud technologies. It is an essential requirement for the successful candidate to have a track record of building federated infrastructures and services, through collaboration and cooperation.
You must also have the proven ability to build, grow and retain high performing distributed teams and committed to maintaining up-to-date specialist technical knowledge.
As this is a key leadership role in the Hub, on average the post holder would be expected to spend at least one day a week at the Earlham Institute.
Additional information:
Salary on appointment will be within the range £70,560 to £88,250 per annum depending on qualifications and experience. This is a full-time post for a contract of 60 months. Although full-time hours are available, applications from those interested in working part-time hours (or alternative working patterns) are also welcomed.
Interviews will be held on 15 October 2024.
For further information and details of how to apply, please visit our website http://jobs.earlham.ac.uk/ or contact the Human Resources team on 01603 450814 or nbi.recruitment@nbi.ac.uk quoting reference 1004732.
This role meets the criteria for a visa application, and we encourage all qualified candidates to apply.
Please contact the Human Resources Team if you have any questions regarding your application or visa options
As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee to offer an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for this vacancy.
The closing date for applications will be 22 September 2024.
