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Lecturer in Web Technologies (Databases) or (Big Data)

University of Greenwich
London, England52

Senior Research Software Engineer

King’s College London
Summer Row, Birmingham B3 1JB, UK58

Associate Lecturer in Applied Computing (HE)

University College Birmingham
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