Systems/It Architect Manager Senior.(Hybrid)

About Us

Georgia Tech has been actively engaged in artificial intelligence (AI) research and education for decades. Georgia Tech¿s AI Hub, Tech AI (www.ai.gatech.edu), is a thriving network, bringing together over 1000 faculty and students who work on fundamental and applied AI-related research across the entire Institute. Tech AI focuses on trustworthy AI for societal benefits in engineering, science, and education.

Tech AI aims to advance AI through discovery, interdisciplinary research, responsible deployment, and education to build the next generation of the AI workforce, as well as a sustainable future. Thanks to Tech¿s applied, solutions-focused approach, Tech AI is well-positioned to provide decision makers and stakeholders with access to world-class resources for commercializing and deploying AI.

In its first year, Tech AI will focus on building an agile and nimble organization to: facilitate, promote, and nurture use-inspired research and innovative industrial partnerships; translate AI research into impact through AI engineering and entrepreneurship programs; and develop sustainable AI workforce development programs.

About the position - Systems/IT Architect Manager Sr.

Are you an AI engineer with a passion for advancing AI, translating foundational research to the field? Do you want to work on cutting-edge AI projects that will improve society, in engineering, science, and education? If you answered yes to the above questions, the Systems/IT Architect Manager Sr. (AI engineer) position at the Georgia Tech¿s AI Hub, Tech AI, may be a great fit for you.

As an AI engineer, you will work alongside the Tech AI leadership team, students, staff, faculty, Georgia Tech¿s Partnership for an Advanced Computing Environment (PACE) team, and other Georgia Tech and non-Georgia Tech personnel to develop and deploy proof-of-concept software that turns ideas or existing models into pilots and viable products. You will lead and manage several crucial proof-of-concept software applications from start to finish, which includes the software design (visualizations, dashboards, and animations), engineering (including continuous AI data pipelines, digital twins, organization, process analysis, software optimization, data manipulation, and executing, evaluating, or retraining the models as needed), deployment, documentation, maintenance, and testing of these applications. All of these tasks could be computed locally, on PACE¿s High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters, or in the cloud.

About Us

Overview

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan.

These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts.

Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1.Students are our top priority.

2.We strive for excellence.

3.We thrive on diversity.

4.We celebrate collaboration.

5.We champion innovation.

6.We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.

7.We nurture the wellbeing of our community.

8.We act ethically.

9.We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Job Summary

Manage and coordinate the conceptualizing, planning, designing, and implementing of complete and integrated information technology solutions on a campus-wide basis. Serve as a recognized subject matter expert in information technology architecture and related technologies.

Responsible for setting employee goals, assessing performance, providing feedback, and making pay recommendations. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: IT leadership and staff, user department management and staff.

This position typically will advise and counsel: IT leadership and staff, user department management and staff.

This position will supervise: technical support staff.

Responsibilities

Job Duty 1 -

Lead projects of critical importance in areas of enterprise systems, networking, security or overall IT architecture.

Job Duty 2 -

Direct high profile programs involving formulation of strategy and administration of polices, process and resources..

Job Duty 3 -

May seek project funding from outside sources.

Job Duty 4 -

Use expert concepts and broad objectives to resolve most complex system issues.

Job Duty 5 -

Serve as steward of campus overall IT architecture.

Job Duty 6 -

Confer with outside experts (community, professional groups, vendors, solution providers, etc) in resolution of complex issues.

Job Duty 7 -

Provide expert leadership and guidance to technical support staff.

Job Duty 8 -

Perform other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and work experience

Required Experience

Eight years job related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Two (2) or more successful deployments for each of following deliverable products, generated from complex, large, and continuously expanding data sets (Note: A project that contained multiple deliverables can be counted multiple times, one for each applicable deliverable):
• Using and/or programming in the following software technologies:

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

SKILLS

This job requires campus, national or international expertise in systems and IT architecture involving multiple technological areas of high criticality and skills and ability to resolve the most complex problems within that domain. Skills involving developing solutions with little or no precedents are also required.

USG Core Values

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect.

These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all.

To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and University policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. This prohibition applies to faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including affiliates, invitees, and guests. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

More information on these policies can be found here: https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/c2714 Board of Regents Policy Manual | University System of Georgia (usg.edu).

Other Information

This is a supervisory position.

This position does not have any financial responsibilities.

This position will not be required to drive.

This role is considered a position of trust.

This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).

This position will not travel

This position does not require security clearance..

Job Code: I7

Pay Range Starting At: $104,900.00 up to $142,664.00

Background Check

Successful candidate must be able to pass a background check. Please visit¿¿ http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening