Job Description:

• Prioritize technical tasks and deliverables in collaboration with and on behalf of the Center Director.

• Advocate for priorities and manage expectations with technical and scientific staff and executives internally and externally.

• Anticipate internal and external research and project challenges that impact the Center and relevant research communities and recommend process, product, or service improvements to and with internal and external stakeholders.

• Manage scope of projects with reasonable flexibility to drive scientific goals.

• Track progress of technical deliverables, communicating blockers, problems, and wins with appropriate levels of detail, depending on the audience.

• Interprets and collects data and trains others in the interpretation of data. Leads the dissemination of data and significantly contributes to scientific publications and grant writing.

• Leads others to solve complex problems, providing expertise to the team which includes of scientists and clinicians from the University and nationally.

• Performs other related work as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience:

• Client management experience.

•  Experience leading cross-functional teams, either directly or indirectly.

•  Experience leading software development programs, projects, and/or products (especially SaaS), either directly or indirectly.

•  Familiarity with tools like Atlassian Jira/Confluence and/or other project management software tools.

•  Experience managing or working on federally funded projects/programs, or projects/programs funded by a grant, federal contractor, or OTA.

•  Experience working with software and data releases (open-source software experience strongly preferred).

•  Grant and scientific or technical writing experience.

•  Experience with information security regulations like FISMA, FedRAMP, or NIST.

Licenses or Certifications:

• Any of the following or similar certification or trainings: CAPM, PMI-ACP, DASM, DASSM, PMP, DAVSC, DAC, SAFe, or CSM.

Preferred Competencies

• Ability to lead teams to solve complex problems and propose innovative solutions.

• Ability to participate in complex team science projects, work effectively with other organizations, and represent and advocate for the Center.

• Familiarity with data science.

• Ability to learn about cloud computing and software development.

• Ability to learn about information security, compliance, and privacy.

• Experience with implementing machine learning & AI solutions (generative AI, fine-tuning models, custom model training and evaluation, LLMs, RAG).

Working Conditions

• Office or hybrid office/remote position.

Application Documents

• Resume (required)

• Cover Letter (preferred)

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