Role:

The focus for this role will be adding technical leadership to complement existing scientific leadership to an existing team of software engineers and data scientists. The role will support the existing project manager to lead on effective agile delivery practices. Further, the role will build technical understanding of the challenges around this machine learning activity and develop, and monitor against, a technical roadmap to address them. This role will need to balance the need for scientific progress with sustainability, maintainability, long-term delivery and improving the development cycle time. Contributing high quality code and reviews to the project as well as mentoring and developing junior members of the team will be part of the role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supported by the project manager, act as Scrum Master and facilitate the delivery team to work

effectively.

• Lead the development of technical plans and roadmaps for the FastNet capability

• With the assistance of the development team and project manager monitor progress against and

adapt roadmaps escalating via the project manager when this effects milestones/deliverables.

• Assist, mentor and develop team members; build capability and capacity for the team.

• Respond to pull requests; review and refactor prototype science code for efficiency and

robustness

• Work as part of a team to incorporate new scientific developments into the FastNet code base.

• Review and promote coding best practices for the project, including use of appropriate tools to

facilitate this.

• Maintain good documentation and promote knowledge transfer to other team members through

pair programming, coaching, and team discussions.

Key skills:

• Expert knowledge ofPython, knowledge of quality assurance with Python, especiallytestinganddocumentation.

• Expert knowledge ofagile development practices, specifically the Scrum framework.

• Knowledge of developing and deployingmachine learning workflowsoncloud platforms such as AzureML.

• Knowledge of working with large structured and unstructured datasets, ideallygeospatial data.

• Ability to mentor and develop others.

Essential Criteria:

Show deep and/or broad relevant technical insight through facilitation of significant advances in

software capability by the effective application of technical knowledge and interpersonal skills.

This should include the development of sophisticated machine learning models.

Promote good Quality Assurance processes, best practice, standards and/or regulations in your

work and that of others.

Communicate knowledge accurately and concisely in written documents and discussions in

groups, tailoring communication for diverse audiences, and actively engage with others to

understand the requirements and wider context of your work.

Mentor, coach, train and support others in developing their technical skills, leading to improved

output of individuals and the team and the career development of others.