R & Shiny Engineer

Job Opportunity: R & Shiny Engineer (Contract) Life Sciences Unit
Location: Hybrid Stevenage (preferred) or London, UK
Contract Duration: 6 months initially
Rate: Competitive DOE, inside IR35
Hybrid Working: Minimum 2 days per week on-site

About the Role
Our client is seeking two skilled R Engineers with strong expertise in R, Shiny, and R Markdown to join their team in the Life Sciences sector. Youll play a key role in building interactive, robust, and scalable web applications that help drive impactful insights in a data-driven environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy interactive R Shiny web applications.

• Work with R packages such as Data.Table, dplyr, tidyr, ggplot2, and Shiny dashboards.

• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented R code; conduct code reviews and validations.

• Implement unit testing and ensure application performance and reliability.

• Benchmark and optimize performance across applications.

• Identify and resolve data inconsistencies and reporting issues.

• Translate complex data analysis into clear, user-friendly interfaces.

• Contribute to Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and automated testing and deployment processes.

• Apply testing strategies and frameworks, including BDD/Gherkin.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Proficient in R data structures (vectors, lists, matrices, dataframes).

• Experienced in data manipulation and cleaning using dplyr.

• Skilled in data visualization using ggplot2 and other R plotting libraries.

• Comfortable working with various data formats (CSV, Excel, JSON, databases).

• Familiar with Jenkins, GitHub, BDD frameworks, and Agile Scrum practices.

If you have the relevant skills and experience, please apply promptly and we will be in touch to discuss your application further.

Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive, it is not possible to provide feedback on all applications so if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

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