Lecturer in Computer Science - Hatfield, United Kingdom - University of Hertfordshire

University of Hertfordshire

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Hatfield, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Post Title:
Lecturer in Computer Science
SBU/Department: School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science

Department of Computer Science
FTE:
1.0 FTE (37 working hours per week)
Duration of Contract: Permanent
Salary: UH7 £37,099pa with potential to progress to £44,263pa on achieving designated skills and experience
Annual Leave: 35 days plus standard public holidays and an additional 4 days including the closure of our office between Christmas and New Year

Location:

College Lane Campus-
Main duties and responsibilities

The post holder will contribute to teaching and learning activities including; delivering high quality teaching, learning and assessment to our students at all levels. As a lecturer, the postholder will be expected to have sufficient experience to lead modules and develop teaching and assessment materials in the advertised areas.
The postholder will also provide pastoral and academic support for home and international students. The Lecturer will play an important role as part of a team incorporating the Head of Department or Subject Group Leader, programme leader, module leaders, the professional, administrative and technical staff (if applicable), the Dean of School and the Associate Deans of School. The post holder will also be expected to contribute to teaching in mainstream areas of Computer Science, and modules with particularly large groups of students.
Skills and experience required
Principles of database management systems and having worked with common DBMSs; for example, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Snowflake, Neo4J, etc., and/or having practical experience in enterprise database administration.
Data modelling experience ranging from a variety of conceptual design, e.g., (E)ER, UML, to relational to objectoriented, or to extendedrelational and schemaless data modelling approaches.
Experience/exposure to data management (e.g., ACID vs BASE principles) and database performance (indexing, query optimisation, query execution plans, etc.).
Experience/exposure in the mathematical definitions for SQL and/or other nonSQL query languages (e.g., GraphDB, Neo4J).
It is desirable that the postholder has a track record of publication, external research funding, collaboration across disciplines, experience of different types of assessment and higher education quality assurance. Whilst face to face teaching is expected, you maybe required to teach in a blended mode or wholly online.
Qualifications required
You will be educated with a minimum of an undergraduate degree or equivalent Level 6 qualification in relevant discipline, or equivalent experience.
Recruitment Incentive_Please view the job description and person specification for a full list of the duties and essential criteria._** _Please attach a personal statement showing clearly how your skills and experience match the essential requirements of the Person Specification._
An appointment to this role may require an Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) certificate