Technology Enabled Business Solutions (TEBS) Technical Developer

Role Description

About the Role

The TEBS Technical Developer will support the Head of TEBS in delivering a range of income driven business activities in providing innovative products, solutions and consultancy that address complex customer requirements across the training sphere. These include government, industry and academic organisations across the UK and its international allies. 

You will be a self-starter, able to think independently and combine both business development and deep technical programming development skills.  You will help further develop and manage the TEBS Pathway course management system, together with a portfolio of other initiatives. You will be responsible for defining requirements, monitoring, modifying, testing and delivering high impact TEBS initiatives, including activity across other Schools in the University and reporting regularly to the Head of TEBS and other stakeholders.

You will have personal responsibility for managing a range of current and emerging projects including:

• Centre of Excellence in Energetic Materials (CoEEM) – providing development support to aid delivery of strategic priorities and objectives.
• Development and growth of the Higher Education Export Control Association (HEECA) architecture and sector wide engagement in collaboration with the Security Commercial function. 
• Support and lead on new initiatives that align with the TEBS rationale to allow large populations to access, train and assess using our engaging, timely and relevant knowledge and training platforms. This will include proposing content development and submission.

About You

You will be educated to degree level in a software, business, or process related area, or equivalent experience.  You will have extensive experience with Adobe ColdFusion and other web technologies.  You will have experience of one or more of the following:

-        Proven experience with software development

-        UK Defence and/or Security sectors

-        Project and Programme Management

Experience of working within a university environment is desirable. 

About Us

As a specialist postgraduate university, Cranfield’s world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships are creating leaders in technology and management globally. Learn more about Cranfield and our unique impact here.

Our Values and Commitments

Our shared, stated values help to define who we are and underpin everything we do: Ambition; Impact; Respect; and Community. Find out more here.

We aim to create and maintain a culture in which everyone can work and study together and realise their full potential. We are a Disability Confident Employer and proud members of the Stonewall Diversity Champions Programme. We are committed to actively exploring flexible working options for each role and have been ranked in the Top 30 family friendly employers in the UK by the charity Working Families. Find out more about our key commitments to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Flexible Working here.

As part of our commitment to support and develop Technical staff across the University, we are a founding signatory of the Science Council's Technician Commitment. Find out more here.

Working Arrangements

Collaborating and connecting are integral to so much of what we do. Our Working Arrangements Framework provides many staff with the opportunity to flexibly combine on-site and remote working, where job roles allow, balancing the needs of our community of staff, students, clients and partners.

How to apply                                   

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Peter Jolliffe at p.m.jolliffe@cranfield.ac.uk.