High Assurance Computing Director (Experienced) - HAC - Open Rank

Overview:

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).Founded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station, GTRI has grown to more than 2,900 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $940 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry.GTRI's renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy, and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government, state, and industry.

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Location

Atlanta, GA

Project/Unit Description

The High Assurance Computing unit is responsible for overseeing all classified IT services essential to supporting GTRI's research mission. This includes developing strategic plans for classified IT environments, implementing and managing these services, and ensuring full compliance with all applicable policies and regulations. These IT services are critical to enabling researchers to meet their sponsor deliverable commitments effectively and securely.

Job Purpose

High Assurance Computing (HAC) Director has the overall responsibility to provide vision and leadership for classified systems and networks, including collateral, special access, and SCI systems. This includes architecture, construction and maintenance of classified networks, systems, communications and computing services. The HAC Director reports directly to the GTRI Information Officer (GTRI-IO), serves on the GTRI IT leadership group, and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of HAC.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy:

• Develop and assess the mission, vision, strategic, and operational plans of HAC with focus on transformational solutions with agile delivery.
• Build strategic partnerships with researchers, GTRI Research Security, lab leadership, and IT groups across the organization to deploy services & systems that enable classified research.
• Lead a team of IT professionals in support of providing computing services for research at the collateral, SAP, and SCI classifications.
• Oversee the technical architecture of enterprise classified computing & systems, review modern and emerging technologies, evaluate the benefits and risks of incorporation, and incorporate those into HAC that provide greatest value to stakeholders.
• Lead the group that will establish standards, and best practices and guides the organization in implementing them.
• Develop and manage HAC's budget for capital and operating expenses and ensure the effective and appropriate investment of the funding resources.
• Lead and drive IT process, business, and technology changes by gauging and anticipating the needs of the organization in order to bring efficiencies to GTRI overall and ensure high quality, streamlined services.
• Create a focused working environment with controlled inflow of projects and minimized task-switching from competing priorities.
• Collaborate with GTRI-Research Security to establish a comprehensive enterprise information security & governance program that will ensure the protection of classified systems & data.
• Provide support, encouragement, and ongoing reinforcement of continuous learning and improvement to build strong operations and technical excellence within the team.
• Keep abreast of new trends, innovations, and best practices in the technology landscape.

Development:

• Hire, develop, evaluate, and retain a highly-qualified team of IT professionals.
• Foster a culture of innovation, transparency and accountability in the department.
• Promote a service excellence -focused mentality at all levels of the organization.
• Develop an organizational model to deliver effective and efficient services to customers.
• Establish group/departmental goals; determine the resource needs to meet these goals; and assess performance.

Operations:

• Oversee the implementation and delivery of all projects undertaken by HAC.
• Lead the group that supports enterprise classified systems and network.
• Monitor the provision of services, levels of service, and service quality. Ensure that the organization's business processes are compliant with relevant legislation, and that the organization operates according to the principles embedded in relevant standards.
• Develop and institutionalize metrics for monitoring and managing the performance of systems and services, with respect to their contribution to research performance.
• Mitigate risk by anticipating issues, driving critical decision points, determining alternatives proactively and informing leadership of roadblocks or items requiring leadership intervention

Additional Responsibilities

• Collaborate with GTRI's Office of the CIO and Georgia Tech on strategic organizational initiatives.
• Serve as GTRI's representative for classified IT at sponsor meetings, conferences, and with external communities.

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Experienced in leading IT organizations that offers classified (Collateral, SAP, SCI) IT services for DoD or Federal agencies/contractors.
• Experienced in leading a team of highly qualified IT professionals.
• Should be able to obtain and maintain security clearance.
• Ability to obtain and maintain SAP and SCI accesses.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI Clearance.
• Work experience at UARC or defense contractor agency.

Travel Requirements

~10% travel

Education and Length of Experience

This position vacancy is an open-rank announcement. The final job offer will be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty Extension Professional ranks as outlined in section 3.2.1 of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook

• 14 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field.
• 12 years of related experience with a Masters' degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field.
• 9 years of related experience with a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field.

U.S. Citizenship Requirements

Due to our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be U.S. Citizens.

Clearance Type Required

Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain an active security clearance.

Benefits at GTRI

Comprehensive information on currently offered GTRI benefits, including Health & Welfare, Retirement Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Time Off, and Professional Development, can be found through this link: https://benefits.hr.gatech.edu/.

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