Senior Project Administrator

Date Posted: 11/26/2024
Req ID: 40854
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science
Department: Dept of Computer Science
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00041984

Description:

About us:

The Faculty of Arts & Science is the heart of Canada’s leading university and one of the most comprehensive and diverse academic divisions in the world. The strength of Arts & Science derives from our combined teaching and research excellence in the humanities, sciences and social sciences across 29 departments, seven colleges and 46 interdisciplinary centres, institutes and programs.

We can only realize our mission with the dedication and excellence of engaged staff and faculty. The diversity of opportunities and perspectives within the Faculty reflect the local and global landscape and the need for curiosity, innovative thinking and collaboration. At Arts & Science, we take pride in our legacy of innovation and discovery that has changed the way we think about the world.

Established in 1964, the Department of Computer Science is ranked among the top computer science departments in the world. Our faculty have been presented with a wide variety of honours and awards over the years, including two Turing Awards, and many other national and international honours. We provide diverse programs and research opportunities while consistently producing high-impact research that is among the most highly cited in computer science.

Your opportunity:

Under the direction of, and working closely with, the Director, Information Technology, the Senior Project Administrator is responsible for the coordination of IT projects that are carried out by the project teams. The project teams provide innovative IT solutions to support Computer Science teaching, research and administration, and each team serves as an IT resource for other units within and beyond the University community.

The Senior Project Administrator provides leadership to the project teams, including the coordination of individual project teams based on skillset and requirements, assigning members to project teams, estimating the complexity of each project, and reviewing work. The incumbent also informs, trains, guides, and coaches staff.

The Senior Project Administrator assumes the responsibility of a project leader for specific highly complex and highly technical IT projects byproviding technical leadership, system expertise, and support to the project. As the senior project leader, the incumbent is responsible for monitoring the project from conception to completion. Responsibilities includes addressing timelines, tracking resources, managing tasks, selecting technology, establishing milestones, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring and communicating project status. The Senior Project Administrator also acts as a team member for specific projects, serving as a technologyresource to the project team.

As a member of a project team, the incumbent analyzes and troubleshoots highly complex and technical Computer Science IT problems and recommends technical solutions; writes, modifies, and corrects computer software programs and scripts; operates, debugs, maintains, repairs, modifies, tests, and documents computer systems, networks, equipment, hardware and software; invents unique configurations of computers; and plans, evaluates, designs, specifies, installs, implements, and configures new highly complex and technical computer systems, networks, equipment, hardware, and software.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing, testing, and modifying programming code
• Analyzing, troubleshooting and testing highly complex systems
• Analyzing operational requirements to implement plans for network and internet presence
• Analyzing, recommending and designing internal network solutions to meet client needs
• Leading and planning IT projects
• Defining requirements and scope of complex projects with broad impact and long-term consequences
• Advising on cost, feasibility and impact of different implementation solutions
• Serving as an expert resource to a group of professionals in the speciality

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related discipline, or an acceptable equivalent combination of education and recent and relevant experience.
• Six to seven years of recent and related UNIX/Linux system administration experience in a highly technical and complex heterogeneous IT environment developing academic computing solutions for a computing academic discipline.
• Experience analyzing and troubleshooting complex IT/system problems for academic computing.
• Substantial experience writing, modifying, and correcting scripts on Linux/Unix platform(s).
• Experience with virtualization, printing, backups, security, networking, open source software, high-performance computing (HPC), databases, automated operating system installs, network filesystems/fileservers/data storage, and technical documentation.
• Experience providing project leadership, including team coordination, estimating, assigning, and reviewing work.
• Substantial experience collaborating on IT purchase recommendations and independently costing IT projects.
• Experience running large-scale complex academic computing involving many dozens of servers and workstations serving hundreds of researchers and students.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to deal with people in a tactful and effective manner and the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical people at their own level, explaining possibly complex technical concepts to a wide variety of technical and non-technical users.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills exercised in an environment with frequently changing demands, demonstrating initiative, adaptability, creativity and flexibility.
• Previous experience supervising staff, preferably in a unionized environment. Must have strong leadership skills, especially the ability to take personal responsibility to establish and maintain the goals and mission of the project teams.
• Proven ability to provide expert technical resources to others.
• Clear and demonstrated ability to design, plan, analyze and improve systems.
• Ability to lift/move desktop and server computer equipment.
• Ability to learn continually “on-the-job”, on own initiative, often without instructors, courses, texts or other educational resources, to keep abreast of often rapid changes in requirements, software and technology in a highly dynamic leading Computer Science department.
• Must maintain broad technical knowledge and experience in a rapidly-changing field.
• Demonstrated awareness of and commitment to appropriate information security and privacy practices in academic computing environments, including secure system design, authentication, patching and vulnerability management, appropriate use of encryption, log analysis, andgeneral secure systems administration practice.

Assets (Nonessential):

• Substantial experience with GPU computing software and hardware.
• Substantial experience with scientific computing queueing systems, particularly SLURM.
• Experience with infiniband networking.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Adaptable
• Goal oriented
• Motivated self-learner
• Persuasive
• Proactive
• Resilient
• Resourceful

This role is currently eligible for a hybrid work arrangement, pursuant to the University policies and guidelines, including but not limited to the University of Toronto's Alternative Work Arrangements Guideline.

Closing Date: 12/05/2024, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 18 -- $114,486. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $146,408. 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.

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All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

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.

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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.careers@utoronto.ca.

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