What are the responsibilities and job description for the Advanced Analysis Manager position at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory?
Lawrence Berkeley Lab’s (LBL) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Division has an opening for a Advanced Analysis Manager to join the team. The Advanced Analysis Manager will lead a team of engineers to build the next generation of software infrastructure to support data generation, analysis, and dissemination for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI). The position will report to the Chief Informatics Officer (CIO) and will be part of the Data Science and Informatics Department.
The Advanced Analysis Manager will lead the group responsible for engagements with external partners, including JGI’s computer infrastructure provider(s), collaborative development with the Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), and will oversee the development of next generation of distributed software infrastructure for JGI. The Advanced Analysis Manager will support the CIO in the development and execution of the strategy for data science and informatics.
The successful candidate will represent JGI in relevant reviews, national and international activities as well as within the DOE National Laboratory system. As a member of the JGI Management Team, the successful candidate will actively participate in strategic planning for the organization and provide leadership for JGI initiatives.
The JGI’s mission is to support, enable, and amplify the scientific output of the environmental genomics community that are addressing key scientific questions in the areas of carbon geocycling, biofuel production, and climate change. JGI is a national user facility that supports a global network of thousands of scientists that rely on our data and infrastructure. As the demand for JGI data has increased, so has the complexity of the software infrastructure and analysis tools needed to support scientific innovation. JGI engineers leverage user-centered design, supercomputers, and collaborative development to create systems and infrastructure that are a joy to use.
What You Will Do:
Supervise JGI’s Advanced Analysis Group
- Recruit, retain, and develop the staff responsible for building and maintaining JGI’s distributed data management and workflows infrastructure.
- Set goals for staff that align with JGI and DSI strategic priorities.
- Organize work to ensure staff understand their duties and delegated tasks.
- Monitor employee performance and provide constructive feedback and coaching.
- Adapt industry best practices in DevOps to a research scientific computing environment to keep services as highly available as possible.
Maintain High Technical Proficiency:
- Lead engineering projects to maintain and enhance system functionality, in areas such as distributed data management, scientific workflow execution, and search of scientific data.
- Identify and evaluate emerging technologies and explore new features that would create new capabilities and enhance system performance and usability.
- Recommend and lead implementation and deployment efforts for system improvements that enhance reliability, stability, usability, performance and security.
Build and Maintain Relationships:
- Work within Advanced Analysis and with JGI’s infrastructure partners (including NERSC, EMSL, and Berkeley Lab IT) to diagnose and fix system problems.
- Participate in working/user/advocacy groups and represent JGI and its interests to the broader DOE community.
- Provide leadership and technical guidance to the Data Science and Informatics Department as well as JGI staff.
Organizational Leadership:
- Develop a strategic plan for JGI infrastructure in partnership with the CIO and JGI leadership.
- Collaborate with the Systems Infrastructure Team on the procurement of hardware infrastructure to support JGI Science and Operations.
- Collaborate with other areas of Berkeley Lab such as the Computational Research Division to explore new methods or algorithms that enhance system capabilities or the user experience.
- Maintain a work environment that embraces diversity and fosters creativity and innovation, and ensures that DOE and Laboratory rules and policies are observed.
What is Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, and or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a managerial role of a complex computer systems or networking unit.
- Experience with high-performance cluster computing systems and workload management software (e.g. SLURM, UGE)
- Experience running or developing secure, scalable distributed software systems in a production environment.
- Experience with strategic planning of complex infrastructure to support life sciences workloads.
- Experience collecting requirements from customers and translating requirements into system and infrastructure engineering tasks.
- Demonstrated ability to lead a team-oriented organization and attract, retain, and develop a talented and diverse staff. Ability to foster a positive work relationship and resolve technical and personal conflicts with diplomacy and tact.
- Deep knowledge of computing and data infrastructure technologies such as scalable databases, authentication tools, web services, and networking.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with supercomputing environments (e.g. Cray).
- Experience executing workflows on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- A Master’s or Ph.D. degree in related fields.
Notes:
- This is a full time, 2 year, term appointment with the possibility of extension or conversion to Career appointment based upon satisfactory job performance, continuing availability of funds and ongoing operational needs.
- This position may be subject to a background check. Any convictions will be evaluated to determine if they directly relate to the responsibilities and requirements of the position. Having a conviction history will not automatically disqualify an applicant from being considered for employment.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values at Berkeley Lab. Our excellence can only be fully realized by faculty, students, and staff who share our commitment to these values. Successful candidates for our faculty positions will demonstrate evidence of a commitment to advancing equity and inclusion.
- Work will be primarily performed at: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA.
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JGI & Berkeley Lab: A View to Fuel Innovative Science in the Public Interest
They say it’s all about location and Berkeley Lab has it all: a view above the San Francisco Bay, cool breezes, and world-class multidisciplinary science within a diverse and respectful research ecosystem of 5,000 people. Nearly 90 years ago, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron, brought physicists, biologists, engineers and mathematicians together in Berkeley above the University of California campus to tackle the most urgent scientific challenges. Today, after garnering 13 Nobel Prizes, Berkeley Lab has sustained and grown that tradition of open, interdisciplinary team science, exemplified by how the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI) addresses the most pressing energy and environmental challenges using integrative genome science approaches. JGI takes up residence in the new, state-of-the-art Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) along with the U.S. Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) to expand the frontiers of energy and environmental science in partnership with the worldwide community of researchers. Will you join us and be a critical part of our next ground-breaking discoveries?
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