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 bas...