Job Description:

• Strategic leadership including defining, developing, and driving the technology roadmap.
• Defining reference and implementation architectures and best practices.
• Recruiting, managing, and mentoring engineering leads and architects cross functional teams; building high performance engineering teams.
• Designing next-generation solutions that integrate with complex systems and advance the center's vision and major initiatives.
• Driving and managing innovations by leading the teams to invent, research and analyze new technology advancement.
• Working as part of the senior leadership and collaborating with various stakeholders to provide expert guidance, build consensus, facilitate decision making, and execute strategic plans.
• Engaging with the scientific research community to present our work and influence standards development.
• Manages programming staff through subordinates, usually other managers and professional staff. Establishes performance goals, allocates resources, directs training, and assesses policies for direct subordinates.
• Develops functional business plans and contributes to the development of overall programming strategy.
• Plans the application development life cycle process, including design, programming, debugging, beta general releases, and production support.
• Recommends the development of technical designs and technical documentation.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

Education:

• PhD in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field.

Experience:

• 15+ years of technical experience across the entire software development lifecycle.
• 4+ years of managerial or supervisory experience of cross functional software engineering teams required.
• Experience defining and driving technology roadmap, strategic planning and execution, and innovation management.
• Experience architecting and delivering cloud-based platforms and ecosystems in multiple clouds (private, public, and hybrid).
• Experience facilitating and executing strategic decisions with clients, stakeholders, vendors, contractors, and senior leadership.
• Experience with Agile project management methodology.
• Hands-on experience working with cloud technologies, distributed big data architectures, large complex data sets, and analytics applications.
• Experience with information security regulations FISMA, FedRAMP, or NIST.
• Domain experience in biomedical informatics.

Preferred Competencies

• Ability to define a vision, form a broad strategic plan or proposal, and break it into objectives and actionable items in various functional areas and oversee the completion of each objective.
• Ability to build and lead teams that are used to minimal supervision and oversight and ensure accountability for deliverables.
• Ability to lead and implement changes in all areas including structure, process, and technology to adapt and improve.
• Ability to build a strong leadership team and act in authority to successfully manage the teams.
• Ability to negotiate successfully on behalf of a unit.
• Deep understanding of computer science principles.
• Project management skills, including a demonstrated ability to manage multiple teams and projects simultaneously, and own time well, and achieve objectives.
• Ability to systematize and organize large amounts of data and information.
• Ability to learn new content areas and new skills quickly and well.

Application Documents

• Resume (required)
• Cover Letter (preferred)

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