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Karlstad University has a total of approximately 1,400 employees and 19,000 students spread across two inspiring campus environments in Karlstad and Arvika.
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Description
The Faculty of Health Science and Technology has an opening for a full-time post-doctoral research fellow with focus on non-technical debt in large-scale agile software development. The position is available within the Software Quality and Digital Modernisation research group (SQUAD) research group at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Karlstad University. The research of SQuaD aims at developing methods and techniques to continuously preserve, improve, and adapt quality attributes of long-living software systems in order to allow such systems to be maintained and evolve more easily.
The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science consists of the two subjects: Mathematics and Computer Science. It has a research and teaching staff of more than 60 persons. In Computer Science, research and education are focused on computer networking and distributed systems, computer security and privacy, and software engineering. Both research and education are conducted in close cooperation with international, national and regional partners from both academia and industry.
Duties
The post-doctoral fellow will work in a new industry collaborated project - Non-Technical Debt in Large-Scale Agile Software Development (NODLA), funded by the Knowledge Foundation of Sweden. NODLA aim to investigate Non-Technical Debt (NTD) with the purpose of understanding causes leading to the accumulation of NTD, impacts of NTD, and mitigation strategies in the context of large-scale agile software development (ASD) from perspectives of professionals and researchers.
See more information about NODLA at https://sola.kau.se/nodla
Qualification requirements
Essential Criteria:
Assessment criteria
In the assessment procedure, emphasis will be placed on the applicant's scientific experience in relation to software process measurement and improvement, agile/lean software development methods, processes and practices and understanding of software development methods, various frameworks to manage large-scale ASD (such as the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), Agile portfolio management, disciplined agile deliver (DAD), Scrum at Scale, Nexus, the Spotify Model and so on) in general, and technical/non-technical debt in software development specifically:
Terms of employment
The position is a full-time position for one year with the possibility to extend for another year based on mutual agreement. The starting date for the position is within the time span of December 1, 2021 and February 1, 2022.
Karlstad University places great value on the enriching presence of diverse backgrounds and gender balance in the organisation. We welcome applicants with different cultural backgrounds, gender identities, functional abilities and life experiences.
Application
Application should include well documented qualifications. Applicants are responsible for submitting a complete application in accordance with the advertisement and for ensuring that the documentation allows for objective and qualitative assessments. A complete application should be submitted no later than the application deadline.
The application should include:
Submit your application via the university's web based recruitment tool Varbi and attach all the documents and publications you wish to be considered to the electronic application (do not provide links to them). Name each document to clearly indicate its contents.
Documents that cannot be submitted electronically should be sent by postal mail to:
Karlstads universitet
Registrator
651 88 Karlstad
State ref.no: REK2021/117
Application deadline: 15 August 2021
We look forward to your application!
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HR Excellence in Research
Type of employment | Temporary position |
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Contract type | Full time |
First day of employment | The starting date for the position is within the time span of December 1, 2021 and February 1, 2022. |
Salary | Monthly |
Number of positions | 1 |
Full-time equivalent | 100% |
City | Karlstad |
County | Värmlands län |
Country | Sweden |
Reference number | REK2021/117 |
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Published | 30.Jun.2021 |
Last application date | 15.Aug.2021 11:59 PM CEST |