Research Software Engineer
- Employer
- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
- Closing date
- 14 Feb 2022
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- Academic Discipline
- Computer Science, Engineering & Technology, Electrical & Electronic Engineering
- Job Type
- Research Related, Other Research Related, Professional Services, IT Services
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Work type: Fixed Term
Location: Parkville
Division/Faculty: Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Department/School: Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Salary: $87,007 - $94,181 (UOM 6)
Role & Superannuation rate: Professional - Full time - 17% super
Founded in 1853, the University of Melbourne is Australia’s #1 university and is consistently ranked amongst the leading universities in the world. We are proud of our people, our commitment to research and teaching excellence, and our global engagement.
About the Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics
The Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics is at the forefront of a preventative health revolution. Big data, changing infectious diseases patterns, and multi-disciplinary collaborations are transforming the ways public health disciplines are researched and taught. Our Centre aims to be a leader in this evolving environment.
Epidemiology and biostatistics provide solutions to global public health challenges that demand multi-disciplinary responses. Our Centre's approach to research, teaching, and research training reflects this reality. We combine deep expertise with a broad range and reach – through our ten units, and our active links to other renowned institutions. This ensures our researchers and graduates are ready to contribute to preventing and alleviating the world's common, debilitating, and burdensome health issues.
Our Centre's specialised units address the most important diseases affecting Australians and other people worldwide:
- Allergy and Lung Health
- Biostatistics
- Breast Cancer
- Colorectal Cancer
- High-dimensional Analytics
- Indigenous Epidemiology & Health
- Modelling and Simulation
- Neuroepidemiology
- Sexual Health
- Twin Research Australia
About the Role
This position represents an exciting opportunity to develop and support software for large-scale, highly-valuable population health research studies, several of which have been taken decades to establish. Your contributions will translate to impactful, real-world advances in public health, both nationally and globally. You will be highly engaged with the Australian and international medical research community, working to advance innovative health informatics tools.
In a typical week at work, you may:
- support existing research software tools and systems (front-end and back-end), from contributions at the source code level through to testing, deployment, and providing ongoing support. This includes addressing bugs and feature requests reported by staff.
- liaise with key stakeholders to understand the more complex limitations and rate-limiting bottlenecks of existing systems. Addressing these limitations by programming sophisticated new capabilities into the software, or by integrating systems.
- engage key stakeholders to elicit the requirements of new software tools. Designing the front-end, back-end, and service layers of new software tools, then undertaking iterative software development to achieve production releases with ongoing support.
- provide operational support, administration, and maintenance to the Centre’s portfolio of cloud-based servers, and the applications hosted on them.
- work with the Head of Research computing and University IT groups to re-position the Centre’s cloud-based hosts, ensuring they are well-equipped for the next five years.
- produce user and technical documentation for software systems that are used by researchers, professional support staff, and the MSPGH Informatics team.
- maintain the privacy, confidentiality, and security of research systems and data.
About You
Minimum qualifications required: you will hold a degree in software engineering, computer science, engineering (with software speciality), information technology, or equivalent.
Skills and experience required to fulfil the position: you will have a demonstrated track record in object-oriented computer programming, with a focus on .Net/C#, Java, and JavaScript for the development of web applications. You will be capable of self-directed learning to understand the large, complex codebases of existing software projects, and possess expertise in relational database systems. You will have experience leading new software projects through the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). You will have a solid understanding of cloud computing and virtualisation, and have experience with Linux system configuration, administration, and maintenance.
Benefits of Working with Us
In addition to having the opportunity to grow and be challenged, and to be part of a vibrant campus life, our people enjoy a range of rewarding benefits:
- Flexible working arrangements and generous personal, parental and cultural leave
- Competitive remuneration, 17% super, salary packaging and leave loading
- Free and subsidised health and wellbeing services, and access to fitness and cultural clubs
- Discounts on a wide range of products and services including Myki cards and Qantas Club
- Career development opportunities and 25% off graduate courses for staff and their immediate families
To find out more, please visit https://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/staff-benefits.
Be Yourself
At UoM, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and contributions that each person brings to our community, and we encourage and celebrate diversity. Indigenous Australians, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, females, people of all ages and culturally diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply for our roles. Our aim is to create a workforce that reflects the community in which we live.
Join Us!
If you feel this role is right for you, please submit your application including a brief cover letter, your resume and your responses against the selection criteria* (found in the Position Description) for the role.
*For information to help you with compiling short statements to answer the selection criteria and competencies, please go to http://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/selection-criteria
Should you require any reasonable adjustments with the recruitment process, please contact the Talent Acquisition team at hr-talent@unimelb.edu.au.
Due to the impacts of COVID-19, we are currently prioritising applications with current valid working rights in Australia and candidates who are not affected by travel restrictions. Please see the latest updates to Australia's immigration and border arrangements: https://covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au/
Position Description: 0055079 PD_Research Software Engineer.pdf
Applications close: 14 Feb 2022 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Company
The University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings consistently placing us as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and one of the world’s top 50*.
Melbourne attracts the best and brightest students and researchers and, with a history of over 160 years, we occupy a special place at the heart of our city’s cultural scene.
Melbourne is a leading research university, widely renowned for its teaching and the social and economic contributions it makes through knowledge transfer. The University’s performance in international rankings puts it at the forefront of higher education in the Asia-Pacific and beyond.
Internationally, the University is consistently ranked among the leading universities in the world, with its international peers placing it in the top 20 worldwide, and employers placing it in the top 10. In the recent Times Higher Education rankings of the world’s top 200 universities, Melbourne ranked top in Australia and 33 in the world.
Melbourne’s international research pre-eminence was also acknowledged with a top 100 ranking in the Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings. Ranked No. 44 in 2015, the University has climbed steadily in the rankings since first appearing at No. 92 in 2003.
The Melbourne Model introduces undergraduate programs characterised by both breadth and depth, followed by a graduate professional degree, a research higher degree or entry directly into employment.
In 2008 Melbourne commenced offering six New Generation undergraduate degrees in Arts, Biomedicine, Commerce, Environments, Music and Science. The Melbourne Model also introduces a new graduate school experience to Australia, providing the best and brightest with a more focused, intense and professionally relevant degree in areas such as Law, Architecture, Teaching and Nursing. With the Melbourne curriculum now aligning the University with the world’s top universities in Europe, North America and Asia, we enable our students to develop the skills and attributes required by employers all over the world.
More than 50,000 students from over 120 countries take courses in the University’s 12 faculties and graduate schools.
For more information please visit: http://www.unimelb.edu.au
*Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015
- Mini-site
- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Telephone
- +61 (3) 8344 4000
- Location
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Parkville
Melbourne
Victoria
VIC 3010
Australia
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