An exciting opportunity to lead and shape the design, development, and delivery of the UK's next research assessment exercise.

We require systems to be delivered to support:

Administration of the exercise

The submission of large volumes of research data from all participating HEIs

The distribution and assessment of all elements of the research data submitted

Extensive experience of Agile software development and working in SCRUM teams

Evidence of contributing to the design of integration solutions between various systems within our architecture

Demonstrable experience designing, coding and debugging systems including NodeJS/express, RESTful APIs, React

Excellent skills in web front end technologies such as HTML, CSS, etc.

Excellent knowledge of relational databases including data modelling, SQL scripts, stored procedures

Extensive experience with source control systems, including branching, merging, etc.

Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment

Experience designing and working with n-tier architectures (UI, Business Logic Layer, Data Access Layer) along with experience with microservice oriented architectures

Experience of working in AWS/Azure and setting up complex programmes/projects

Extensive experience of design patterns such as SOLID and TDD

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions, with the most recent exercise concluding in 2021. It is a peer review assessment process involving submissions from higher education institutions across the UK. Research England delivered REF 2021 on behalf of the four UK funding bodies and the results have driven the annual distribution of approximately £2 billion of research funding to UK universities.

UKRI can offer the successful candidate: