Architecture Researcher

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Salary £47,773 to £57,806 per annum plus benefits

The Sanger Institute is a world leader in bio-informatics research for the benefit of human health. Specifically, our scientific niche is in large-scale, high-throughput biology, often incorporating systematic genome-wide screens. These are enabled by major data generation platforms in DNA sequencing, cellular genetics and mouse genetics with an accompanying large IT platform supporting computational data analysis.

To support a dynamic, wide-ranging and groundbreaking research community, the Sanger Institute has one of the world's largest life science IT facilities. Our facilities currently provide research groups with HPC clusters that deliver more than 20,000 compute cores, 15 PB of high performance Lustre file systems and data repositories exceeding 16PB.

The recent addition of a Flexible Compute Environment, based on OpenStack and 100GB/s software defined networking, exceeds 6000 further CPU's and provides 1PB of high performance object storage to our customers. This new environment provides exciting opportunities to our research community both for collaboration and to embrace otherwise disruptive technologies as they come to market.

Such flexibility is critical to our being able to adapt to the rapidly developing requirements of our scientific environment and remaining at the leading edge of technology will be key to our IT strategy over the forthcoming years.

We are therefore happy to announce that we are looking for a new enthusiastic IT staff member. This role is to look 5+ years ahead to what may be possible, rather than technology that is available today. You will evaluate how it aligns with our developing scientific challenges. You will also engage with our strategic commercial and scientific IT partners to develop the solutions that we will need in the future.

This is an outstanding opportunity to not just join a world leading genetics research institute but also to help craft our IT future!

For such a blue-sky research position, you will require a mixture of talents and qualifications including :

* A strong and creative problem-solving mentality.

* An open and enquiring approach to IT and it's evolving landscape to overcome them.

* Highly self-motivated and with a will to share and disseminate information

* An ability to present new ideas and opportunities to a wider audience of both highly technical and non-technical audiences

* Provide contributions to wider audiences through peer review papers and conference presentations and posters.

* The ability to rapidly learn and evaluate new methods and tools

* Excellent written, verbal and numerical skills.

* Forward and independent thinking!

We believe that this post would be ideally suited to someone with a high degree in a computation or mathematic or scientific background. Specific knowledge of cloud or HPC technologies is desirable but a deep understanding and ability to develop upon new and upcoming IT technologies, such as machine learning and associated computation approaches is more so.

Closing date: 20th August 2018