Rutgers University
Associate Vice President for Research Computing
Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States
Overview
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking an Associate Vice President for the Office of Advanced Research Computing. The AVP leads a team responsible for developing, managing, and delivering efficient, high-performance compute and research data management services to Rutgers’ research community. Reporting to the Vice President of Enterprise Application & Research Computing, and in consultation with the Senior Vice President for Research, the AVP enables excellence and innovation with a strong, faculty-centered, efficient, high-performance research computing service portfolio. The AVP will be a key strategic partner with Rutgers faculty, research departments, central and distributed information technology organizations, and programs to advance the institution’s research enterprise. Responsibilities
Oversee the Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC), an Office of Information Technology division. Lead a team of experienced research computing professionals to foster partnerships with principal investigators, researchers, and students to support their research, scholarship, and creative endeavors. Create and maintain a strategic plan and framework for research computing in direct support of faculty research throughout Rutgers’ global network. Collaborate with units in OIT, Rutgers University research computing teams, and other partners and service providers to keep research computing at the leading edge in a technically and fiscally sustainable way. Develop a deep understanding of faculty, student, and staff expectations; stay aware of trends and disruptive forces in research computing and data management. Work with university leadership to develop research data governance policies and best practices. Advocate for centrally administered research computing hardware platforms. Partner with Enterprise Infrastructure to provide the software infrastructure to support researchers. Build a shared, aspirational research computing support strategy and develop a plan to implement it across the university. Pursue grant funding for the benefit of Rutgers and its research community. Build relationships with peer institutions and research partners while implementing risk management frameworks and best practices. Provide strategic leadership, fiscal stewardship, and operational oversight for OARC to create a seamless ecosystem that minimizes friction and administrative overhead for changing compute, data, and IP security needs. Qualifications
PhD or advanced degree in science, computer science, or engineering preferred. Experience working closely on collaborative clinical/translational applications. Experience with large-scale data warehousing and with handling restricted data. Experience working with faculty or clients in a computational domain. Experience using HPC systems as a researcher. Experience developing and delivering tutorials, workshops, and lectures on high-performance computing at institutional, regional, and national levels. Seniority level
Executive Employment type
Full-time Job function
Research, Analyst, and Information Technology Industries
Higher Education
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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking an Associate Vice President for the Office of Advanced Research Computing. The AVP leads a team responsible for developing, managing, and delivering efficient, high-performance compute and research data management services to Rutgers’ research community. Reporting to the Vice President of Enterprise Application & Research Computing, and in consultation with the Senior Vice President for Research, the AVP enables excellence and innovation with a strong, faculty-centered, efficient, high-performance research computing service portfolio. The AVP will be a key strategic partner with Rutgers faculty, research departments, central and distributed information technology organizations, and programs to advance the institution’s research enterprise. Responsibilities
Oversee the Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC), an Office of Information Technology division. Lead a team of experienced research computing professionals to foster partnerships with principal investigators, researchers, and students to support their research, scholarship, and creative endeavors. Create and maintain a strategic plan and framework for research computing in direct support of faculty research throughout Rutgers’ global network. Collaborate with units in OIT, Rutgers University research computing teams, and other partners and service providers to keep research computing at the leading edge in a technically and fiscally sustainable way. Develop a deep understanding of faculty, student, and staff expectations; stay aware of trends and disruptive forces in research computing and data management. Work with university leadership to develop research data governance policies and best practices. Advocate for centrally administered research computing hardware platforms. Partner with Enterprise Infrastructure to provide the software infrastructure to support researchers. Build a shared, aspirational research computing support strategy and develop a plan to implement it across the university. Pursue grant funding for the benefit of Rutgers and its research community. Build relationships with peer institutions and research partners while implementing risk management frameworks and best practices. Provide strategic leadership, fiscal stewardship, and operational oversight for OARC to create a seamless ecosystem that minimizes friction and administrative overhead for changing compute, data, and IP security needs. Qualifications
PhD or advanced degree in science, computer science, or engineering preferred. Experience working closely on collaborative clinical/translational applications. Experience with large-scale data warehousing and with handling restricted data. Experience working with faculty or clients in a computational domain. Experience using HPC systems as a researcher. Experience developing and delivering tutorials, workshops, and lectures on high-performance computing at institutional, regional, and national levels. Seniority level
Executive Employment type
Full-time Job function
Research, Analyst, and Information Technology Industries
Higher Education
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