Research Solutions Architect - Brantford, Canada - InsideHigherEd

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Research Solutions Architect

Date Posted: 05/01/2024

Req ID: 37191

Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga

Department: UTM: Info. & Inst. Tech. Services

Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)

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Description:

About us: U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada's top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario's booming Peel Region—is one of the world's great catalysts of human potential. Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work together to spark life-changing research and innovation, make an indelible mark on the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the lift of a lifetime through learning and discovery. We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world. This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongside the Missinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We're thrilled to welcome those who want to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.

Your opportunity: Do you want to work with an organization named a top GTA employer for 17 years in a row, and in 2023 alone was selected as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, Canada's Top Family-Friendly Employers and Greater Toronto's Top Employers? Do you want to work within a modern IT department using cutting-edge technology that will invest in you and your career? Then look no further U of T has the exceptional human resources programs and forward-thinking workplace policies to receive this perennial recognition. We recognize that people need their employers to invest in them and enrich their lives; we have great benefits, flexible work options, advancement opportunities, professional development programs, employee family assistance plans, a full pension, generous vacation, educational assistance and tuition waivers for you and your children. At U of T Mississauga, we are looking for an exceptional Research Solutions Architect to join our team. The Research Solutions Architect will lead all aspects of the technical planning, building, and running of UTM's IT research offerings, including High-Performance Computing (HPC) offerings and Research Storage. Working closely with research faculty and staff, you will continue to enable and advance UTM's world-class research. As a Research Solutions Architect, you will be a principal subject matter expert within UTM's I&ITS Infrastructure and Operations team. You will make strategic recommendations and hold tactical and operational oversight of UTM's I&ITS research offerings. This will require combining deep technical experience and knowledge, business analysis skills, and the ability to effectively build relationships with research faculty and leadership. You will be vital in ordinating efforts of other teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment with the campus vision towards UofT's overall mission -- to continue to deliver innovative and cutting-edge research solutions.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Advising clients and technical subject matter experts on best practices for documenting system requirements
• Analyzing business and operational requirements to plan the implementation of new IT systems
• Analyzing and configuring highly complex enterprise applications and services
• Developing and updating architectural framework for highly complex and confidential university-wide IT systems
• Researching, analyzing and recommending potential changes to system features
• Leading and planning IT projects
• Defining requirements and scope of complex projects with broad impact and long-term consequences

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience
• Minimum eight years of hands-on system administrator experience in a complex and heterogeneous environment comprising Windows Server, CentOS, and Ubuntu Linux systems
• Minimum eight years of hands-on experience implementing and managing datacenter infrastructure including servers and networking
• Minimum five years of hands-on experience implementing and administering moderate/large scale, multi-user research compute cluster(s) with industry-standard tools, like Bright cluster management, Slurm and both open- and closed-source applications
• Minimum five years of hands-on experience implementing and managing large, scalable storage solutions such as object-based storage or clustered file systems
• Minimum five years of hands-on experience working with containers such as Docker or Apptainer/Singularity
• Minimum two years of experience working with GPUs, including NVIDIA's data center platforms
• Deep understanding of Software Development Life Cycles, system and application security hardening, vulnerability assessment and enterprise patch management
• Knowledgeable in Python
• Excellent organizational, time management, prioritization and delegations skills
• Ability to plan and perform major, complex implementations within ITSM and ITIL Change Management standards
• Ability to solve complex technical and logistical problems and communicate, both verbally and in writing, effectively with non-technical teams
• Experience creating, expanding, and maintaining relationship with vendors

Assets (Nonessential):

• ITIL foundations level (or higher) certification
• Demonstrated experience working in a structured change management environment (CAB or equivalent body)
• Familiarity with Statistical suites such as SPSS, MatLab, SAS
• Experience working with the ServiceNow platform
• Familiarity with the University environment, governance, and policies
• Experience with datacenter supporting infrastructure, including power and cooling management

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Accountable
• Decisive
• Diplomatic
• Goal oriented
• Problem solver
• Team player

Closing Date: 05/09/2024, 11:59PM ET

Employee Group: USW

Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing

Schedule: Full-Time

Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone: USW Pay Band 18 -- $112,241 with an annual step progression to a maximum of $143,537. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.

Job Category: Information Technology (IT)

Lived Experience Statement: Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.

Diversity Statement: The University of Toronto embraces Diversity and is building a culture of belonging that increases our capacity to effectively address and serve the interests of our global community. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, Black and racialized persons, women, persons with disabilities, and people of diverse sexual and gender identities. We value applicants who have demonstrated a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion and recognize that diverse perspectives, experiences, and expertise are essential to strengthening our academic mission. As part of your application, you will be asked to complete a brief Diversity Survey. This survey is voluntary. Any information directly related to you is confidential and cannot be accessed by search committees or human resources staff. Results will be aggregated for institutional planning purposes. For more information, please see

Accessibility Statement: The University strives to be an equitable and inclusive community, and proactively seeks to increase diversity among its community members. Our values regarding equity and diversity are linked with our unwavering commitment to excellence in the pursuit of our academic mission. The University is committed to the principles of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). As such, we strive to make our recruitment, assessment and selection processes as accessible as possible and provide accommodations as required for applicants with disabilities. If you require any accommodations at any point during the application and hiring process, please contact uoft.