DIRECTOR, Software & Application Innovation Lab, Hariri Institute

Essential Functions

• Contributing to software architecture ideation and design for SAIL projects, performing code review, and acting as technical project manager particularly for complex multi-person and (often multi-team) projects that require coordination among multiple software developers. In this capacity the SAIL Director seeks to shield project PIs from technical details and ensures PI satisfaction with ongoing projects.
• Manage program portfolios with clients, planning and prioritizing projects, maintaining a program roadmap, and preparing annual planning and budgeting project proposals.
• Managing multiple projects within SAIL among different project teams, overseeing requirements gathering, project planning, resourcing, execution, change control, issue/risk management, and regular status communication to relevant stakeholders. This position will be responsible for executing all projects using structure approaches like Agile/Scrum and is accountable for ensuring the project activities are productive, positive, and kept within the agreed upon time-box.
• Collaborating with faculty affiliates in social, physical, natural, and medical science disciplines with the conception and pursuit of software engineering components of research projects for proposals to extramural funding agencies.
• Serving as co-investigator or senior personnel on research projects; identifying funding opportunities and projects and managing growth. Meeting with potential collaborators to assess goals and understand where SAIL can best add value.
• Staff Supervision (Assoc. Director, Engineering and associated Software Engineering team).
• Strategic planning and collaboration within the larger BU research computing ecosystem, especially related to the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, New England Research Cloud, and/or related regional, or national research computing infrastructure.
• Administration: Working with Institute leadership on annual reporting, budget exercises and financial models, and other ad-hoc projects.

Required Skills

• A deep knowledge of technical architectures and application development tools.
• A proven track record in delivering applications and prioritizing work via different project/portfolio approaches.
• A consultative approach to building relationships within an internal community.