Total 2 Senior Executive level Information Technology job vacancies in OX11 7PN

Your role will be to create, develop and maintain the software running both on the Orion and on the Cloud analytics servers. You will be working with our Data Scientists to integrate advanced atmospheric modelling solutions, with our field teams to streamline and optimise the sensor deployment process, with our operations team to control, monitor and diagnose instruments deployed to the field and with our engineers to continually enhance and improve our products.

About You
You're a smart, enthusiastic professional developer with a background in one or more commercial high-level languages. You relish solving difficult problems and are confident working in complex real-time, threaded environments. A methodical thinker, you naturally collaborate to find the best innovative solutions validate them and present them to the team.
Essential skills:

• 2 years commercial experience of high-level language development, ideally on Linux
• Experience with the selection and use of third-party libraries and frameworks
• A desire to transition to or develop Python skills
• Familiarity with software process - coding standards, unit tests and source control
• Excellent communication, collaboration and team skills

Desirable skills:

• Knowledge and experience with Python and ZeroMQ
• Experience with Agile teams and processes
• Knowledge of Python visualisation libraries - Bokeh, Holoviews
• Experience with state machines
• Knowledge of data and statistics libraries
• SQL, Postgres and psycopg2
• DevOps experience with Azure
• Containerisation - Docker
• C and C++ on Linux

Sr Software Developer
£50,000 to £60,000
Hybrid, Oxfordshire
Permanent | Full-time


Your new company
A national synchrotron facility is located in Oxfordshire. The site is home to scientific research supporting over 14,000 researchers across various fields with its state-of-the-art facilities.


Your new role
The Senior Software Developer role involves working within the Data Acquisition Team. In this position, you'll collaborate with other software engineers, supporting various experimental techniques and developing data acquisition capabilities.


Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership within the data acquisition group to develop, test, maintain and support the ongoing software development
• Lead a team delivering medium-scale projects (typically with direct business impact and firm deadlines), providing direction, coaching, support and motivation
• Use technical and professional knowledge to identify opportunities for technical or process improvement across the organisation, supported by the team
• Bring and apply excellent engineering experience and deep domain knowledge to the Data Acquisition group to ensure that developed systems meet the goals of innovative, world-leading science and engineering.

What you'll need to succeed

• Experience of managing a small team of developers providing technical leadership, mentorship and project management
• Good working knowledge of Java & Python
• Experience with leading projects with strict deadlines & tight budgets
• Experience with collaborating with a large organisation and multiple stakeholders

What you'll get in return

• Industry Leading Public Sector Pension
• Competitive Health and Social Benefits
• A combined 40+ days of holiday

What you need to do now
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