Date Posted: 05/01/2025 Closing Date: 05/31/2025, 11:59PM ET Req ID: 40815 Job Category: Information Technology (IT) Faculty/Division: Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering Department: Faculty IT Office Campus:St. George (Downtown Toronto) Description: About Us: The Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering is a world:renowned community of researchers and students dedicated to solving some of the worlds most pressing challenges through collaborative and multidisciplinary research and experiential education. Through rigorous technical training, and unparalleled extracurricular and professional experience opportunities, we prepare the next generation of engineering leaders and change makers to unlock the futures boundless potential. Your Opportunity: Reporting to the Director, Information Technology, the Manager, Research Computing has the primary responsibility for providing strategic leadership and management for the Faculty's research computing initiatives, ensuring alignment with the University's commitment to research computing excellence and priorities of academic units across the Faculty. Oversee divisional computing and technology needs, assessing and fulfilling requirements to support the Faculty's research objectives. Lead special initiatives, including both research and non:research projects, focusing on emerging, exploratory, and evolving technologies with the aim to drive modernization, adoption, and the development of sustainable and secure support structures. Enhance and standardize secure computing practices across teaching and research labs, ensuring consistent and reliable support for all computing needs. The Manager, Research Computing plays a crucial role in advancing the Faculty's research computing capabilities while fostering a secure and innovative technological environment. The Manager is responsible for establishing critical partnerships with academic units and institutes, faculty, administrative staff, and students, as well as institutional units and teams to drive forward:thinking, sustainable, security and service:focused research computing support. IT partners include Information Technology Services (Enterprise Infrastructure, Information Security and Enterprise Architecture, Academic, Research and Collaborative Technologies) as well as Research and Innovation (Centre for Research and Innovation Support). The manager interacts with influential Faculty and University leaders, overseeing and guiding technically savvy team members, managing team priorities and productivity and covering all aspects of business, HR, and operational needs including financial management, budgets, procurement, contracts and intake. The Manager draws from institutional, industry, and peer best practices and maintain up:to:date knowledge of technology, advances, and directions in computing, IT security, and IT risk. They will continually evaluate the performance of the Faculty's research presence. From a risk and security perspective, the Manager will partner with the Manager, Information Security Programs, and others to identify and analyse gaps and vulnerabilities, offering sound recommendations to improve services delivered. The Manager supports research:connected information security incident response and also help guide and support research connected to the Faculty:wide business continuity/DR activities, infrastructure planning projects, and promote audit readiness. The Manager is responsible for the research computing budget of the Faculty and makes recommendations for major purchases and leases. The Manager is the main contact with external vendors and often negotiates procurement contracts and product pricing. The Manager is the Faculty's representative for research computing in all University:wide forums. As well, the incumbent designs, plans and implements organizational structure and information technology infrastructure in order to best suppo