UCL
Senior IoT Tech Lead
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About us
Information Services Division (ISD) is the primary provider of IT services to UCL. We support and enhance learning, teaching, research and administrative processes by providing information- and technology-related services to over 50,000 staff and students of UCL and associated institutions.
Our goal is to be the leading IT services group in the HE sector and we are growing our team's capability in experience/UX, agile development, security, cloud, service management and partnering. We are modernising our technology foundations, digitising the processes of the university to transform experience for students and staff, and partnering across the university to drive differentiation in UCL education and research.
Portfolio and Product Delivery manage the delivery of technology led change, partnering with colleagues across UCL. We collaborate as cross functional agile teams and have core capabilities in experience, development & test, analysis and agile delivery management.
About the role
The Senior Technical Lead is a key role at UCL which ensures the continual build of sustainable internal capability, which delivers high-quality enterprise-scale data services. This role also directly enables UCL's Data Strategy, democratisation of data, AI innovation, and compliance with regulatory requirements including HESA, UKVI, TEF, OfS and financial reporting.
You will be required to provide advanced technical leadership for architecting, building and scaling UCL's Internet of Things (IoT) platform. This includes modern software and platform engineering, streaming and distributed data processing and above all, a keen sense of internet and web standards to enable interoperability and scalability of UCL's IoT capability.
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About you
You must have a strong background in software engineering and be comfortable and confident leading small teams of engineers, ultimately owning and improving the software development lifecycle. As such you should be able advise and guide the following activities:
- Software design and coding standards for one or more programming languages
- Dependency management, project build and unit/integration testing
- Continuous integration and static analysis
- Configuration management and cloud platforms
- Deployment, release and continuous delivery
You should also have considerable experience with IoT/WoT technology and standards with familiarity with the following:
- Good understanding of IoT networking and application protocols such as UDP, MQTT, CoAP, Bluetooth (BLE), CBOR, Modbus, echonet, profinet, Zigbee, OPC-UA, BACnet and CAN bus
- Experience and understanding of physical device topologies and smart metering standards (SMET1/SMET2)
- Experience of one or more IoT platforms and gateways such as Azure IoT, AWS IoT, Google IoT, EMQX, ThingsBoard and HiveMQ
- Experience and understanding of IoT Web standardisation and Web of Things initiatives
- Experience and understanding of IoT security threat models and access control
- Good experience of data and event streaming technology such as Apache Kafka and Apache Pulsar
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Finally, you should have good stakeholder management skills and be able to communicate and collaborate with a variety of business, product and architectural facing colleagues.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
- 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
- Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- Immigration loan
- Relocation scheme for certain posts
- On-Site nursery
- On-site gym
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce.
These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
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