IT Early Solutions Scientific Compute Lead - Slough, United Kingdom - UCB

UCB

Verified Company

Slough, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for an
IT Early Solutions Scientific Compute Lead who is collaborative, experienced and innovative to join us in our IT Early Solution Innovation and development team, based at our office in Slough, United Kingdom.

About the role

You will drive the evolution of our scientific compute environment and shape the technical platforms of the future for early drug discovery.

Who you'll work with

What you'll do

Work with different stakeholders (scientists, IT colleagues) to define, design and oversee the implementation of highperformance (cloud) compute solutions tailored to different challenges of insilico drug design
Build and own solutions that are maintainable, scalable, costefficient, and future proof as per latest industry standards
Investigate and troubleshoot issues across the technical ecosystem (infrastructure, security, cloud)
Work in a transversal team and take part in leveraging existing compute platforms and extending them to become innovative digital solutions, enabling Early Research scientists and bioinformaticians to discover the nextgeneration disease treatment solutions by leveraging modern insilico techniques
Regularly assess the new technology trends

Interested? For this role we're looking for the following
education, experience,
and
skills

You are an experienced and passionate IT engineer who gets energy from delivering performant solutions to complex problems together with a transversal team
You know everything the other IT engineers from the company know plus the things nobody heard of and enjoy working with people who also know things you never heard about
You are passionate about life sciences and wish to collaborate with scientists to contribute to the discovery of new targets that will improve patient's lives living with severe chronic disease
You have solid working knowledge and high curiosity to stay current and proactively explore the environment for emerging technologies and innovation trends around scientific compute
You are perseverant and can drive change
You can effectively prioritize and efficiently follow up on task execution
You learn from experience and put forward solutions to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past
You are a team player with effective communication skills.
As you are joining an international team (based in Belgium, United Kingdom, United States, and India), you have excellent knowledge of English (both written and spoken)
Master's degree in information science, software engineering, computer science or equivalent experience.
Extensive experience with delivering performant systems (HPC) that can handle large amounts of data (architecture, patterns, use cases and differences between CPU, GPU)
Extensive knowledge of Azure Cloud or similar cloud platform (e.g., AWS)
Experience with Linux
Knowledge of scrum methodology and experience with Agile principles and practices.
Experience with Azure DevOps and Git.
Knowledge of OAuth2, OpenID Connect, Azure AD or Azure B2C is a plus.

Are you ready to 'go beyond' to create value and make your mark for patients? If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you

About us
UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company, focusing on neurology and immunology. We are around 8,500 people in all four corners of the globe, inspired by patients and driven by science.

Why work for us?
At UCB, we don't just complete tasks, we create value. We aren't afraid to push forward, collaborate, and innovate to make our mark for patients.

We have a caring, supportive culture where everyone feels included, respected and has equitable opportunities to do their best work.

We 'go beyond' to create value for our patients, and always with a human focus, whether that's on our patients, our employees or our planet.

Working for us, you will discover a place where you can grow, and have the freedom to carve your own career path to achieve your full potential.

Learn more about sustainability at UCB and how it is integrated into our business approach.

UCB and its subsidiaries encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace; we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race/colour/religion/sex/national origin/veteran/disability/age/sexual orientation/gender identity.