[Hiring] Information Technology Architect @Associated Universities Inc.

Role Description

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) is seeking an experienced Enterprise IT Technology Architect. The Information Technology Architect provides strategic and technical architectural leadership for the infrastructure and platform ecosystem that enables the NRAO’s scientific mission. This position is responsible for defining, designing, and guiding the implementation of scalable, resilient, high-performance technology architectures supporting scientific computing, large-scale data processing, high-capacity storage, advanced networking, and geographically distributed research infrastructure.

Working collaboratively with the observatory's Enterprise IT Teams, Software Architect, and Data Architect, the Technology Architect will establish the long-term technical direction necessary to support current scientific operations and the next generation of radio telescopes. The position will play a critical role in developing technology strategies and architectural solutions capable of supporting increasingly computationally intensive scientific workloads, high-volume data movement, and the generation, processing, storage, and preservation of petabyte-scale scientific datasets.

What You Will be Doing

• Develop and maintain enterprise technology architectures, standards, principles, and reference designs for scientific computing and supporting infrastructure.
• Assist the technical teams in EIT in developing working designs for infrastructure and platform that meet the scientific requirements for usability, availability, capacity, and performance.
• Establish architectural roadmaps addressing near-term operational requirements and long-term scientific computing demands over 12-, 24-, and 36-month planning horizons and beyond.
• Collaborate with Enterprise IT Teams, Software, and Data Architects to ensure alignment between infrastructure capabilities, application architectures, scientific data workflows, and data management strategies.
• Translate scientific requirements, computational workload characteristics, and anticipated data growth into infrastructure designs and implementation strategies.
• Lead technical evaluations, architectural tradeoff analyses, technology selection, and infrastructure modernization initiatives.
• Develop architectural documentation, including conceptual, logical, and physical designs, technology standards, integration specifications, and implementation recommendations.
• Evaluate infrastructure solutions against performance, availability, security, interoperability, scalability, and lifecycle cost requirements.
• Provide architectural guidance to engineering and operations teams responsible for implementing, administering, and supporting infrastructure platforms.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Work Environment

The successful candidate will join a team of professionals engaged in research and development in the fields of science, engineering, software development, and education. Work is typically performed in a research or development environment. Must be able to operate a personal computer. Occasional travel (domestic and international) may be required.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• Overall a minimum of ten years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise infrastructure engineering, high-performance computing, large-scale networking, storage engineering, or related technical disciplines.
• Minimum of five years of experience designing or architecting complex, large-scale infrastructure environments.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, or providing architectural leadership for high-capacity storage and high-bandwidth network infrastructure.
• Experience supporting mission-critical, research computing, scientific, or similarly demanding data-intensive environments.
• Experience architecting infrastructure for scientific research institutions, national laboratories, supercomputing centers, or other large-scale research environments (highly preferred).
• Experience with petabyte-scale parallel file systems, particularly Lustre, IBM Storage Scale, BeeGFS, or similar platforms (highly preferred).
• Experience with large-scale object storage technologies such as Ceph or comparable distributed storage platforms (highly preferred).
• Experience with Slurm, Kubernetes, Apptainer, or similar technologies used in HPC environments (highly preferred).
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, and comparable platforms (highly preferred).
• Experience developing architectural strategies for exabyte-scale data growth, long-term scientific archives, and geographically distributed data processing environments (highly preferred).
• Experience participating in technology acquisition, vendor evaluation, technical procurement, and major infrastructure investment planning (highly preferred).
• Working understanding of application development, data, data warehousing architecture.

Benefits

• Excellent paid time off (13 holidays, annual accrual of up to 24 vacation days).
• Medical, dental and vision plans are effective on the first day of employment.
• AUI’s retirement benefit contributes an amount equal to 10 percent of a qualified participant’s base pay with no required employee contribution.

Application Instructions

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Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

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