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Job Description:

Director of Research Computing at Cleveland Clinic

Key responsibilities

Cleveland Clinic Research is looking for a seasoned professional to serve as the Director of Research Computing, leading teams to conceptualize, strategize, deploy and support desktop computing, cloud computing, and high-performance computing for the Cleveland Clinic scientific research community. 

In addition to supporting hardware and software acquisition and maintenance for Cleveland Clinic researchers, the Director has a leading role in understanding the day-to-day and intensive computational needs of the biomedical research ecosystem; developing specifications for high performance and cloud computing and deployment of research computing systems; engaging with institutional leadership and internal stakeholders in clinical biostatistics, AI/ML, bioinformatics, modeling and simulation, predictive analytics, omics, and imaging research; appreciating healthcare system operational and cybersecurity constraints; supporting research data management activities across a range of activities from open science to commercialization; and ultimately, balancing end-user needs for enabling capability and efficiency of research computing workflows with enterprise-wide and local, regional, and national compliance requirements.  

Successful candidates will have a background in strategic planning and working with systems administrators, engineers, IT managers, and vendors for the deployment of networked computing/IT resources across server and workstation technologies to support biomedical research. Experience in communicating strategic plans to research leadership and other IT leaders is fundamental to the position.  This is a full-time managerial leadership position, and the director is NOT expected to develop or grow their own biomedical research program. 

Requirements

1. A Ph.D., M.D. or other advanced professional degree in an area of biomedical research or computer science with experience in applications in biomedical research. 
2. Ability to lead highly technical, multidisciplinary teams to support computational infrastructures and services (current team of 20+ personnel to support over 2000 users).  Requiring: Proficiency in Internet/general network fundamentals. 
3. Aptitude for customer-oriented service with experience to tackle challenges of a fast-paced research environment. 
4. Knowledge of and expertise in operations compliant with institutional, local, regional and national Cybersecurity requirements is important, including host and network-based security, system and patch management, system logging, data transfer protocols, DNS, and related topics. 
5. Expertise with contemporary desktop, cloud, and high-performance computing architectures sufficiently flexible to meet the computational needs of a sophisticated and diverse research community. 
6. Keen interest and the agility to follow and implement emerging computing technologies for use by the research community (examples AI/ML, quantum) 
7. Exceptional capability and collaborative spirit to engage with diverse stakeholders and to inform and communicate policies.  
8. Capacity and mindset to establish and implement computational strategies and infrastructure to meet dynamic scientific and biomedical research needs, including development of budgets and programmatic plans. 

Candidates should submit a statement of qualifications responsive to the above requirements, a curriculum vitae, and the names of at least three references to [email protected].

Cleveland Clinic is pleased to be an equal employment/affirmative action employer: Women/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities are encouraged to apply.
We are a smoke/drug free environment.

Contact:

Kathleen Babb
[email protected]