Executive Director Research Computing

About the Opportunity

Job Summary:

The Executive Director Northeastern Research Computing is responsible for the development and delivery of highperformance computing infrastructure and capabilities to Northeastern researchers teaching faculty and students throughout the universitys global network. Under the direction of Northeastern Office of the Provost and in consultation with researchers the executive director enables innovation through development of leadingedge capabilities and delivery of strong faculty and student centered efficient support for established research computing functions.

The Executive Director will be a key strategic partner with Northeastern faculty students and staff to advance the institutions research mission and will report to the Associate Vice Provost for Research Computing. To ensure that essential services are provided to the university community the executive director may be required to work outside their regular working hours and travel as needed.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Masters or Ph.D. in a field with a strong scientific computing component and ten or more years of experience with research computing environment.

• Demonstrated ability to design and implement creative technical solutions in a large academic environment for various stakeholders (e.g. faculty researchers students) with potentially competing needs.

• Understand and navigate the decisionmaking process of a large and global educational and ability to work effectively under ambiguity and constantly evolving priorities.

• Deep knowledge of high performance computing (HPC) largescale scientific computing parallel storage and file system.

• Excellent communication and project management skills and ability to navigate a complex academic environment and work collaboratively with individuals at all levels.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical and Leadership 60

• Lead the implementation and of research computing capabilities and daytoday HPC systems operations located at MGHPCC facility (i.e. data center compute storage networking and other core capabilities).

• Deploy monitor and manage CPUs GPUs storage file systems networking on HPC systems. Develop and deploy system management and monitoring infrastructure in support of highperformance computing and cyberinfrastructure.

• Lead a team to develop and implement engineering solutions for scientific workflows for data analysis data reduction visualization and longterm preservation of experimental data.

• Design monitor and provide continuous improvement to HPC infrastructure and capabilities to help Northeastern research produce impactful computational science research.

• Develop and deploy solutions in collaboration with team members to integrate Northeasterns onpremise HPC infrastructure and data storage with other national computational resources & facilities.

• Continuously adapt and expand research computing capabilities to support computationally intensive research emerging scientific and engineering needs from faculty and researchers and educational activities (e.g. courses).

Researcher Community (Student Faculty and Staff) Support 20

• Provide strong user support to assist researchers & students in effectively utilizing computing resources and implement framework to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of resource usage.

• Develop strong relationships and collaborate with colleges universitylevel impact engines research centers to ensure research computing capabilities serve our diverse needs effectively.

Partnership and Collaborations 10

• Collaborate with Northeastern Research Advisory Committee (RCAC) and the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) on enhancing HPC capabilities and user experience that expand the impact of Northeastern research within and beyond the university.

• Manage and nurture relationships as per the guidance from the leadership with vendors and service providers to ensure Northeastern Research Computing enhances its capabilities in a timely and costeffective manner

Management and Leadership 10

• Provide leadership mentorship and guidance to mentor multiple research computing staff to excel. Cultivates and fosters a collaborative team culture that promotes excellence innovation and creativity.

• Collaborates with the University Leadership and assists them with universitylevel strategic planning development and refinement of research computing policies and practices.

Cover Letter:

The applicants are strongly encouraged to include a cover letter highlighting three contributions that you are most proud of.

These contributions or experience can be unrelated to each other and different in nature but they must highlight your unique strengths ability to devise and implement outofthebox/creative solutions your work ethic and ability to innovate under constantly evolving and competing priorities.

Please limit the cover letter to a single page. This component will significantly determine the outcome.

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Additional Information

Northeastern University considers factors such as candidate work experience education and skills when extending an offer.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color national origin age sex sexual orientation disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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