Research Software Architect-Ent

Description

For UAB IT use only:
Independently employs a broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures in support of Research Computing systems. Plans, designs, develops, and supports systems and projects to be used by university researchers. Carries out complex assignments requiring the development of new or improved techniques, procedures, and software. Independently provides development leadership on implementations. May lead junior team members in project completion. Serves as a direct liaison with user, technical support, training and operations personnel.

Leads technical and administrative support to the research computing department. This position will commit to fostering an environment of heightened security following Information Technology Security Policies and participating in security training, such as HIPAA and FERPA, on an annual basis.

This position will work within Research Computing to architect advanced computing, GPU-enabled environments and serve as a specialized partner to researchers to develop AI/ML research workflows within UAB Research Computing. In addition to typical Research Software Architect duties, this role will include:

• Collaborating with faculty to translate research needs into secure, high‑performance computing environments.
• Designing custom research architectures that support GPU workloads, large‑scale computing, and advanced AI model experimentation.
• Supporting development, training, and evaluation of research AI systems.
• Ensuring alignment with institutional governance frameworks, data protection requirements, and Responsible AI practices.
• Serving as the bridge between research goals and Research Computing capabilities.
• Coordinating cloud‑based integration with other IT units.
• Leading the design, development, testing, and deployments of a wide variety of applications to support access to and use of campus HPC, on‑prem cloud, container, and storage platforms, ensuring best practices and appropriate documentation.
• Leading and providing application support to researchers, defining requirements and constraints for the overall software solution, and developing scope and project‑management plans, communication, and milestone delivery timelines.
• Partnering with other software engineering professionals across the university and collaborating institutions to understand existing tools, integrate them into a new environment, and initiate open collaboration with researchers to fit the engineered solutions to research needs.
• Transferring knowledge, expertise, and methodologies by providing documentation, technical assistance, and mentorship to researchers and technical staff, and communicating software engineering concepts to domain experts.
• Developing personal knowledge through independent research, mentoring junior team members through discussions and studying existing code bases, and maintaining and expanding knowledge of current and future software development tools and techniques, programming languages, and computing hardware.
• Performing other duties as assigned.

Annual Salary: $104,045 - $169,075

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or a related field and eight (8) years of related experience required. Work experience may NOT substitute for education requirement. Master's degree preferred.

• Advanced knowledge and/or experience in high performance computing environments (on‑prem and cloud), research computing, research security, or research compliance.
• Advanced knowledge of working in and/or securing Linux‑based environments.
• Experience applying ML/AI approaches to research domains.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work across multidisciplinary teams to achieve results.

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