About this role
BioFAIR is building the future of UK life‑science data infrastructure — and we’re looking for a Lead Architect to shape it. Applications are invited for a Lead Architect to join the BioFAIR Hub, hosted at the Earlham Institute, Norwich, UK. Background: BioFAIR is supporting the UK’s life-sciences federated digital research infrastructure to become an integrated, national BioCommons that places the data, tools and services needed to answer life-science questions directly at researchers’ fingertips. Funded by a £34M UKRI investment over five years, BioFAIR will deliver a step change in ‘Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable’ (FAIR) research data management, providing end-to-end FAIR data and analysis capabilities alongside support and training for UK researchers. To achieve this mission, BioFAIR is undertaking an ambitious programme to defragment the UK’s existing data and service landscape. Guided by a “reuse, don’t rebuild” philosophy, this work requires a cohesive archi...