Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Dundee, is currently looking to recruit a Scientific Computing Manager on a Permanent contract on a salary banding of £45,585 - £54,395.

Responsibilities:

- Provide leadership and management of a small team of Scientific Computing staff including on-going coaching, training and mentoring, managing objectives, activities, and critical timelines to ensure efficient service delivery.

- Lead in the strategic development of the Scientific Computing services ensuring they meet industry standards and support assessing workforce planning, equipment, and space needs etc.

- Liaise with other Service Leads to direct Scientific computing service efforts to support the operations, jointly tackling operational challenges and ensuring varied and unexpected needs are met, escalating only if required.

- Provide agile support for scientific hardware and software to meet specialist scientific computing needs.

- Create appropriate technical documentation to support.

- In conjunction with Digital Technology Services (DTS), own, develop, implement and monitor effective and appropriate policies, procedures and controls including Incident Management, Service Requests and Asset Management

- Continually look for ways to streamline services and operations to ensure delivery of fit-for-purpose and robust services for staff and students.

- Build strong, constructive relationships with service users, key stakeholders and DTS Management and Business Partners

- Working on the basis that continually seeks to identify and operate best practice models, network to identify areas of best practice and adopt them within the team, and ensure that staff are operating within organisation policies.

- Co-ordinate equipment bids to be considered by the organisation's Planning and Resources Committee and maintain contact with commercial suppliers, being aware of new product development in the marketplace

- Manage operational budget, approving orders on behalf of the organisation, and using understanding of the financial model and available data to make informed decisions.

- As a member of key committees in the organisation, provide reports, updates and advice in relation to operational and project activity.

- Oversee the continued adherence within the School to Health & Safety policies and with the School Health & Safety Advisor continue to develop a culture where Health & Safety is Embedded in all activity within the organisation.

- Ensure alignment of the School's Computing Strategy with DTS Strategy and Business Outcomes

- Work effectively with DTS End User Services, Infrastructure and Research Computing, and Business Service colleagues to realise the One Dundee approach

- Work closely with DTS to further develop the School's scientific computing resources; to ensure appropriate specialist equipment and licences are sourced, purchased and maintained; and to ensure the video lecturing hardware and software for the Scottish Mathematical Sciences Training Centre in Dundee is maintained & fit for purpose

- Foster the healthy and robust development of the Scientific Computing team and the individuals in the team

Essential Skills:

- University degree in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or a related qualification

- Experience with administering computer Servers

- Experience with providing user support to staff and other stakeholders for high performance and scientific computing

- Experience with providing support to staff and other stakeholders in software/code development and optimisation (eg parallelisation)

- Experience in scientific hardware specification, configuration and support

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- Evidence of ability and willingness to work collaboratively with others.

- Evidence of assisting with the development of standards, and applying these to track, monitor, report, resolve or escalate issues

- Experience of acting as the routine contact point, receiving and handling requests for support and responding to a broad range of service requests

- Experience in specification, configuration, maintenance and support of at least two of the following key areas

- HPC (small to medium)

- Linux workstations and Servers

- Windows Servers

Desirable Skills:

- Evidence of project management

- Experience of leadership in some of the areas noted above as Essential criteria

- Experience supporting teaching technologies, such as video lectures, interactive whiteboards, systems for digital assessment, virtual/augmented reality, etc

- Experience of collaboration with other specialists, where appropriate, to ensure advice given is appropriate to the needs of the organisation

- Ability to create support documentation and other training and reference materials

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