Data Analyst - National Center for Supercomputing Applications (109345)
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Data Analyst
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides supercomputing and advanced digital resources for the nation's scientific enterprise. At NCSA, University of Illinois faculty, staff, students, and collaborators from around the globe use advanced digital resources to address and research grand challenges for the benefit of science and society. NCSA has been advancing one third of Fortune 50 companies for more than 30 years by bringing industry, researchers and students together to solve grand challenges at rapid speed and scale.
NCSA is currently seeking a Data Analyst in the Data Analytics group. This position will play an important role in the NCSA’s effort on the area of high-performance data analytics for industry partners and scientific communities and will work on a wide variety of data driven applications with a focus on distributed computing in the High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.
NCSA is committed to increasing the diversity of the campus community. Candidates who have experience working with a diverse range of faculty, staff, and students, and who can contribute to the climate of inclusivity are encouraged to apply.
Illinois is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or criminal conviction history. Illinois welcomes individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and value diversity and inclusivity. (www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu).
Key Responsibilities of the Data Analyst:
Research
- Work with industry and academic user communities, comprised of IT professionals, researchers and scientists, to model their data and to architect theanalytics solutions for their specific domains in the HPC environment.
- Identify and promote new directions for large-scale of data analytics, HPC and scientific databases to meet user’s requirement.
- Author and co-author technical papers, preferably in conjunction with both academic and industrial collaborators, to present research results and showcase and market solutions developed and deployed for data analytics applications.
Software Development and Support
- Contribute to the software design and development efforts to implement analytics applications which apply the advanced technologies, such as parallel computing, in-memory-processing and cloud computing.
- Contribute to the database design and development efforts to create, maintain and support scientific databases required by data analytics applications.
Teaching and Training
- Organize technical meetings and training sessions on the use of machine learning algorithms, data analytics tools, HPC, parallel processing, and scientific databases.
- Perform other tasks as needed to meet and/or enhance the goals and mission of NCSA. Some overnight travel may be required.
Qualifications for Data Analyst
Required Education and Experience:
- Master’s degree in Computer Science. Alternative degree fields will be considered / accepted if accompanied by equivalent experience and a minimum of 2-year experience in developing data driven applications in the HPC environments.
- One year of experience working with industry partners and scientific users on HPC environments.
- Experience on relational databases MySQL.
- Must have strong experience on applying different types of machine learning methods, working with a variety of data tools, using/designing algorithms, building and implementing models, and creating/running simulations.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience on Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Hive.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Must have a passion for discovering solutions hidden in large data sets and working with users to improve their business and research outcomes.
- Good understanding on major machine learning algorithms.
- Strong working knowledge of R, Python, Java, JavaScript, and SQL.
- Familiarity with machine/deep learning tools and workflows such as caret, Tensor Flow and Caffe. Knowledge on scala, Spark, C, and C++.
- Strong working knowledge on parallel computing with good understanding on OpenMP and MPI.
- Ability to set priorities and to manage several activities simultaneously.
- Ability to work well with industrial partners and high-end scientific user communities.
- Ability to envision how data analytics may be performed in HPC environments, and to actively pursue the successful deployment of data analytics solutions in those environments.
- Strong background in math, statistics and computer science in order to communicate with industrial partners and scientific communities and understand their requirements.
- Ability to apply advanced high-performance computing to address the needs of the industrial partners and scientific communities, which are frequently in domains where high-performance computing has not previously been used.
- Strong capability on analyzing complex problems and discovering adequate solutions in an efficient manner.
This is a regular academic professional position at NCSA and is an annually renewable, 12/12, 100%-time appointment with regular University benefits. Salary is commensurate with experience and start date will be as soon as possible after the close date of the search. Applicants must possess required education and experience by start date of position. Interviews may occur before the closing date; however, all applications received by the closing date will receive full consideration. For further information regarding our application procedures, you may visit http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu or email wmmyers@illinois.edu.
To apply, please create your candidate profile at http://jobs.illinois.edu and upload your cover letter and CV/resume by the close date (4/1/2019). Contact information for three references must be included on the application (letters maybe also be uploaded). For full consideration, candidates must complete the Hiretouch application process by the above date. The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer
College Name or Administrative Unit:Office of Vice Chancellor for Research Category:6-Research Title:Data Analyst - National Center for Supercomputing Applications (109345) Open Date:02/25/2019 Close Date:04/01/2019 Organization Name:Supercomputing Applications
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Faculty
A talented and highly respected faculty is the University's most significant resource. Many are recognized for exceptional scholarship with memberships in such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering.
Our faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and the Fields Medal in Mathematics.The success of our faculty is matched by that of our alumni: 11 are Nobel laureates and another 18 have won Pulitzer Prizes.
Academic Resources
Academic resources on campus are among the finest in the world. The University Library is one of the largest public university collections in the world with 11 million volumes in its 37 unit libraries. Annually, 53,000,000 people visit its online catalog. Students have access to thousands of computer terminals in classrooms, residence halls, and campus libraries for use in classroom instruction, study, and research.
Research
Students and scholars find the University an ideal place to conduct research. The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a model for interdisciplinary research, where eighteen research groups from sixteen University departments work within and across three broadly defined themes: biological intelligence, human-computer intelligent interaction, and molecular and electronic nanostructures. The University is also home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
Undergraduate Education
The University has a fundamental commitment to undergraduate education. Nearly 28,000 undergraduate students are enrolled in nine undergraduate divisions, which together offer some 4,000 courses in more than 150 fields of study.
Undergraduate admission is highly selective. In the 2001 freshman class, students in the middle 50% had ACT scores between 25 and 30 and ranked between the 83rd and 96th percentiles of their high school graduating classes.
The University enrolls over 9,000 graduate and professional students in more than 100 disciplines. It is among the top five universities in number of earned doctorates awarded annually in the United States.
Also integral to the University's mission is a commitment to public engagement. Each year about 65,000 Illinois residents participate in scores of conferences, institutes, courses, and workshops presented statewide. Research and class projects take students and professors off campus to share expertise and technical support with Illinois farmers, manufacturing firms, and businesses. In a typical year, student volunteers log more than 60,000 volunteer hours.
The Arts
A major center for the arts, the campus attracts dozens of nationally and internationally renowned artists each year to its widely acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The University also supports two major museums: the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion; and the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture.
Other major facilities include the multipurpose Assembly Hall (16,500 seats); Memorial Stadium (70,000 seats), site of Big Ten Conference football games; and the Intramural-Physical Education Building, one of the largest recreational facilities of its kind on a university campus.
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As evidence of the University’s commitment to enhance the working, living, and learning environment for faculty, staff, and students, the University will encourage a standard of conduct and behavior that is consistent with the values of inclusivity. In an environment of inclusivity, there is no place for acts of hatred, intolerance, insensitivity, bigotry, threats of violence, harassment or discrimination.
Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices
Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Through education, engagement, and excellence, each voice creates the Inclusive Illinois Experience.
How can we appreciate difference to make a difference?
Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. We value it because we know that we have so much to learn from each other in our living, learning, and working environment.
Illinois is the place where we recognize the power of possibility and where great potential is realized. Inclusive Illinois is the vision of that place: a vision made real by leadership and commitment.
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It is a process. It is transformative. And we celebrate the remarkable changes we set in motion here … taking an important step … crossing boundaries … starting with our own.
It all starts with each of us: with our willingness to embark on the journey in the search for answers, and with our openness and acceptance of the answers we find. Illinois is the place where it all comes together.
Learn more about how Inclusive Illinois promotes diversity here.
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