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Research Software Engineer

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Posted: 2026-03-02
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About the Role In this role, you will have the opportunity to showcase the project's achievements by sharing your expertise with internal and external stakeholders. You will actively engage in software engineering activities, fostering knowledge exchange and collaboration within the RSE community at the college and beyond. Alongside enhancing the team's development methodologies, you will demonstrate exceptional communication skills, ensuring effective collaboration and information dissemination About You As a Research Software Engineer at the Barts Cancer Institute (BCI), Queen Mary University London, you will utilize your professional expertise to effectively deliver research software and databases. Your primary responsibility will be to lead and make significant contributions to the development of clinical trial software, electronic data capture systems, and databases. The post holder will collaborate closely with the BCI technical team, playing a crucial role in improving and maintaining the tissue bank software products, while promoting best practices in research software engineering (RSE) community. About the School/Department/Institute/Project The Barts Cancer Institute (BCI) is a Cancer Research UK Centre of Excellence whose work aims to transform the lives of those with and at risk of cancer through innovative research in the laboratory, in patients and in populations. BCI is internationally renowned in many areas of cancer research, and it combines ground-breaking basic research with the expertise of clinicians and clinician scientists from the Tissue Bank and the Barts NHS Trust to achieve improvements in cancer patient care. The Barts Cancer Institute hosts four local Tissue Banks: Barts Gynae Tissue Bank, The Haemato-Oncology Study Tissue Bank, The Cancer Tissue Bank and Barts Pancreas Tissue Bank. BCI is also a partner in the CRUK City of London Major Centre (together with UCL, Kings and the Francis Crick Institute) which is a Centre of Excellence in Biotherapeutics. BCI is committed in supporting and developing future cancer researchers through its extensive postgraduate training. It is one of six institutes within the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (FMD). About Queen Mary At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable. Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers. We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form. Benefits We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities. Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly. £44,288 to £46,618 per annum

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