Feedback🔷 - dRTP Landscape: Roles

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Think of roles that are involved in the support and delivery of research

1. Name of Role
2. Main Duties
3. How Funded (e.g. institutional budget, project etc.)
4. Job Families Available (e.g. Graduate-Level Only, 4 Levels Junior to Senior)
5. Career Progression Protocol
6. Example Organisation with Role

Data-facing

• Digital Librarian / Archivist
• List known roles
• Bioinformatician
• '1. Data /Information Governance 2. Provide guidance on data governance best practices, ensure dept/projects follow these, provide training, probably more things I don't know about 3. Can be either centrally or grant funded 6. King's College London
• dRTP Landscape
• Data steward
• Data Manager
• Research Data Engineer

Software-facing

• postdocs that code
• Digital Humanities Technologist
• Swansea: 1. RSE/Senior RSE 2. Software feature development, optimisation, and profiling; training delivery; supporting running on HPC 3. Project funding 4. RSE (same grade as Research Officer, Lecturer); Senior RSE (same gradea s Principal Research Officer, Senior Lecturer) 5. Apply to vacancy as available;. In principle promotion possible within the researcher promotion process, but this has never been tested in practice. 6. Swansea University
• Research Software Trainer
• Data Engineer
• RSE
• Scrum master
• MLOps Engineer
• '1. Application Support Officer 2. Software installation on HPC, helping users create containers and write Slurm jobs, basic sysadmin-adjacent tasks not affecting infrastructure 3. Institutional budget, project funding 4. Grade equivalent to Research Assistant/Tutor (one grade below RSE/Research Officer/Lecturer) 5. None :( 6. Swansea University
• DevOps
• Cloud Architect
• Software Architect

Infrastructure-facing

• Application specialist
• HPC sysadmin
• Non-HPC syadmin
• '1. Trusted Research Environment / SDE infra manager 2. Develop and manage TRE infrastructure, ensure best practices are followed, probably lots more I don't know about 3. Centrally funded 6. King's College London, Barts(?)
• Some of the roles listed on the Gov Digital and Data Profession, includes expectations for levels https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk/
• '1. Principal Systems Officer 2. HPC system administration, steering procurement, planning system changes 3. Project. (There should be institutional funding, but it hasn't been forthcoming) 4. Equivalent grade to senior lecturer. (The job title would imply the existence of Systems Officer/Senior Systems Officer, but I've never seen those.) 5. None :( 6. Swansea University
• Research Infrastructure Engineer
• '1. Research operations / research infra support 2. Act as first line helpdesk support for infra users, install software on HPC, set up infra, provide training 3. Centrally funded 6. King's College London
• Hardware specialist, networks, etc.

Other

• Research Facilitator
• Research Engagement Lead
• Community manager
• UI/UX designer ❤️
• Project manager / ADM
• Training developer / trainer
• Information Security
• Miro board maintainer ❤️