RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manages and mentors 5-12 direct reports and a total team of 10-20 colleagues between the dual campuses of Bar Harbor, ME and Farmington, CT
• Independently leads design of systems architecture and their efficient implementation
• Understands the current & future scientific software applications' needs of the JAX research and services; architects & manages the group to deliver the hi-quality applications in time and efficiency
• Collaborates with researchers at JAX and identifies relevant scientific software applications that process and integrate relevant biological data in a biologically meaningful way into a database coupled with interfaces and visualization and maintenance and management plan
• Leads the effort to estimate and document the resources; develops a plan for project management and implementation
• Develops organizational and growth strategy for CSSC, including developing mid-tier leadership. Defines recruitment strategy and manages recruitment process of the staff into CSSC and effectively on boards the new staff
• Partners with JAX researchers on relevant external grant applications
• Develops and contributes to the educational initiatives that encompass scientific software engineering applications and/or requires such a support
• Establishes collaborative relationships with CS-Statistics & Analytics (CSSA) group and helps develop appropriate bioinformatics systems/platforms that meet JAX Research and Services needs
• Follows the up-to-date management practices in place in CS and Scientific Services (SSVCs), innovating new approaches and generating clear and succinct reports that result in overall user satisfaction, improving operational efficiency
• Carries out tasks and projects in the scope of CS and CSSC as assigned by Director of CS
• Architects and leads scientific software applications' development
• Provides clear direction to and manages an organization of professionals to ensure achievement of operation plan objectives by creating clear performance and development plans, rewarding performance and contributing the talent pipeline of the function
• Fosters an environment of teamwork, collaborative spirit and research
• Cultivates, disseminates, and enforces functional policies, procedures and quality assurance best practices
• Establishes and maintains regular written and in-person communications with scientific faculty, executives, department heads, and end users regarding collaboration and bioinformatics platform developmental activities
• Establishes an environment where open two way communication and learning is possible
• Oversees the end-to-end integration of the solutions for clinical & PDX research and services in collaboration with IT and CSSA
• Ensures all relevant processes, quality and security guidelines are embedded in the designs from the early stages
• Keeps abreast of latest developments in Life Sciences and scientific computing and software engineering
• Takes a leadership role in RFPs and vendor discussions under the direction of the Director of CS when required to provide technical advice and options to the research faculty
• Ensures compliance with Quality, HIPPA and all other approved process and quality guidelines
• Ensures resolution of the support/problems to ensure SLA objectives are achieved
• Aligns and prioritizes the capabilities in the team around root cause investigation, developing proposals and fixes and ensuring necessary work is executed
• Establishes the connections with and supports the incident, capacity, availability, release and change management processes
• The incumbent is expected to travel to JAX in Bar Harbor, ME, periodically on multi-day visits

REQUIREMENTS

• Baccalaureate/Masters/PhD degree in Computer Science or closely related discipline and more than five (5) years of professional work experience, before moving into software management
• 5-9 years' management experience of scientific computing for Life Sciences research, either in academia or industry
• Knowledge of best practices for developing and maintaining large software systems using Agile software development methodologies are essential
• Knowledge of software management methods and techniques as they apply to people, projects and processes. While we prefer someone with ten (10) years of professional experience in a position in which such management was a major responsibility, we will consider exceptional applicants with fewer years of such experience
• Knowledge of state of the art technology, technology trends, technology strategic planning methodologies, including white paper analysis, and ROI
• Knowledge of the differing requirements of developing large, production software project, versus fast turnaround research-oriented projects
• State-of-the-art in High Performance Computing systems and their application to computational biology including use of SMP computers and compute clusters
• Demonstrated understanding of decomposition of parallel processing algorithms is pertinent this knowledge area is a plus.
• Experience with web services is a plus.
• Knowledge of characteristics and advantages/disadvantages of current mainstream languages such as Python, JavaScript, Java, C/C++, in a mixed Linux / Mac environment
• Institutionally motivated innovator driving excellence within the CS organization and modeling best practices across the board
• Possess excellent interpersonal skills sufficient to allow the incumbent to effectively lead others and to work effectively with other individuals and departments across the organization; the individual must be a consensus builder and a team player.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills sufficient to permit effective and persuasive transmission of ideas and directions to a variety of audiences
• Ability to budget and track expenses against budget; plan, evaluate and revise plans, organize, manage and monitor multiple projects
• Experience in conducting performance reviews, assisting in career development, and motivating others toward accomplishment of group and individual goals
• Proven ability to develop department goals in line with institution strategic plans, establishing project timelines and managing resources across multiple functional groups

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