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Head of Research Data Storage Engineering

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (GB)
Salary
£56,060 - £59,250 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance
Closing date
19 Jul 2020

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Head of Research Data Storage Engineering

Department : Research Business Assurance

King's College London is creating a new eResearch Directorate to support research at the University. The aim of eResearch is to become a valued and respected partner in research at KCL, by helping to enable and facilitate computational- and data-intensive research across campus.
To achieve this objective, we are building a team of experts in the platforms and methods of eResearch. We are currently looking to recruit into some of the most senior leadership roles in the team, including a Head of Research Data Storage Engineering.

In eResearch, we will be enabling the core pillars of research computing: (a) models driving data (interpretation of empirical observations, and guidance for data collection and design of studies) - simulation and modelling, (b) data driving insights - data analytics and data science, and (iii) models inferred from data - machine and deep learning. We will enable a spectrum of research across the academic disciplines, from deep learning in medical imaging to agent-based models in epidemiology and NGS pipelines in genomics, and will we continue to evolve as computational- and data-sciences develop.

The Head of Research Data Storage Engineering role is an exciting opportunity to make a significant improvement in research capability at KCL. If you are an experienced Research Computing/Research IT/eResearch expert, and you are interested in playing a pivotal role in developing a new capability at a world-class research university, please refer to the Job Pack for more information about this post.

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract.

This is a full-time post.

The selection process will include a panel interview, an assessment, a presentation.

To apply, please register with the King's College London application portal and complete your application online.

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King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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