Your Role on the Team

The Director, Research Cyberinfrastructure Center provides overall direction of UCI's Research Cyberinfrastructure Center (RCIC) serving as focal point and service center for accessing, providing, coordinating and enhancing research Information Technology facilities and services. The Director will provide overall leadership in managing and growing the RCIC.

The Director reports to the Vice Provost and Chief Information Officer, with a dotted line report to the Vice Chancellor of Research. OIT supports RCIC administratively and provides data center and other supplementary services. The RCIC Director serves as a member of the CIO's senior leadership team, to facilitate integration and synergies with educational technology and other campus services.

The Director oversees research IT services provided by the RCIC and facilitates collaborative service relationships with other groups that provide related services, in support of all UCI faculty and research staff. The Director is an ex-officio member of the faculty governance mechanisms that will provide RCIC oversight. The Director coordinates within OIT and with partner organizations such as the UCI Libraries, Data Sciences Initiative, Calit2, and academic schools.

What It Takes to be Successful

Required:

• Broad thorough, and demonstrated knowledge of technical concepts and operating principles of data communications, cluster computing, data storage, secure data infrastructure, high performance networking (e.g. Infiniband), high performance computing, open source and other research software, and cloud services used in a research computing environment.
• Extensive experience in an academic environment, conducting hands-on research, and/or supporting research teams.
• Experience with full research project life cycle, including, but not limited to, identifying funding sources, authoring grant proposals, knowledge of funding lines in a grant request (e.g. capital, S&E, etc.), reporting requirements, overhead/IDC calculations, etc.
• Demonstrated experience leading the work of experienced technical professionals, keeping them engaged and developing them into high performing teams.
• Strong research technology vision development and strategic planning skills.
• Demonstrated success working with a diverse group of peers to build consensus to achieve significant objectives in an environment where a variety of occasionally conflicting personalities and strategic goals must be reconciled.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; the ability to interact professionally and diplomatically with a diverse group including faculty, research staff, Information Technology professionals, and executives; the ability to effectively present technical topics to large groups with potentially varied levels of technical sophistication.
• Experience publishing technical materials in documents, whitepapers, conference or trade group proceedings, or peer-reviewed journals.
• Ability to apply advanced Information Technology principles, theories, and concepts to manage and provide solutions to complex and multi-dimensional problems. Demonstrated knowledge of the challenges imposed by big data research, cross-disciplinary research, distributed computing infrastructure, cloud computing, high-speed networking; etc.
• Experience in the management of ongoing technology infrastructure acquisition and expansion, to include the identification and integration of suitable emerging technologies.
• Adhere to OIT's cultural values: Collaboration, Respect, Trust, Transparency, Quality, Inclusiveness, Customer Centricity, and Learning and Growth.
• Advanced degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training
• Typically 5-10 years of experience managing in a research organization.
• A minimum of 10 years of experience. Previous experience leading or supervising a team.Experience in a relevant scientific or scholarly field (preferred) OR a combination of education and experience.

Preferred:

• Existing relationships with other RCI groups and functions such as the NSF-funded National Supercomputing Centers, NASA, DOE, NIH or similar research centers.
• Knowledge of compliance issues surrounding research data, including federal requirements, granting agency norms and campus and UC-wide security policy.

Total Rewards

In addition to the salary range listed below, we offer a wealth of benefits to make working at UCI even more rewarding. These benefits may include medical insurance, sick and vacation time, retirement savings plans, and access to a number of discounts and perks. Please utilize the links listed here to learn more about our compensation practices and benefits.

The expected pay range for this recruitment is $154,200- $250,000 (Annual).