Secure Data Infrastructure Manager

Salary: £38,000 - 78,000 per year

Requirements

• We need substantial and demonstrable experience of project management.
• We need experience engaging with technical and non-technical communities.
• We need the ability to advocate for and explain complex ideas fluently in front of senior stakeholders.
• We need technical capability to work comfortably with cloud platforms, virtualisation technologies, data models, metadata standards, and business and data pipeline workflow design.
• This post involves access to Government systems, information or data and is subject to the staff vetting process.

Responsibilities

• We will lead the transition to a modern, cloud-based Trusted Research Environment (TRE) infrastructure.
• We will design and build the new infrastructure and align it with existing governance frameworks.
• We will engage extensively with the UK and European TRE community.
• We will ensure compliance with security standards and regulatory requirements, including alignment with the Standard Architecture for TREs (SATRE).
• We will plan, coordinate, and execute all phases of the next-generation TRE implementation for UKDS.
• We will support the delivery of AI-augmented workflows, deployment, and best-practice governance.
• In Year 1, we will focus on engagement, gap analysis, and user and data owner requirements.
• We will facilitate alignment and collaboration between UKDS teams and UK and European partners to plan the transition from the existing on-premises TRE infrastructure to a federated, interoperable cloud platform with embedded AI capability and long-term operational sustainability.
• In Year 2, we will support delivery of key pilot projects that shape the TREs foundational data pipelines, workflows, and endpoints for integration into national and international TRE infrastructure.
• In Year 3, we will lead the launch of the next generation TRE into production.
• We will work closely with teams across UKDS, including Information Security Staff, developers, AI/data engineers, TRE user support staff, and secure output checkers.
• We will represent UKDS in the national and international TRE community.

Technologies

• AI
• Cloud
• Embedded
• Support
• Security
• Citrix
• DevOps
• Network

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We are the UK Data Service, the largest repository for socioeconomic research data in the UK, and we are undertaking a complete transformation of our secure Trusted Research Environment over the next two to three years. This is a fixed-term, full-time role for three years due to the research funding cycle. We are committed to internationalism and diversity at the University of Essex, with a welcoming and cosmopolitan community, a staff-led Global Forum, and a Colchester campus Faith Centre supporting staff and students from all backgrounds.

last updated 36 week of 2026