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This is a hands-on opportunity to work at the intersection of research computing, data engineering, workflow automation, and secure data management, helping faculty and research teams turn complex data requirements into practical solutions.\nYou'll play an important role in USC's expanding secure computing environment for sensitive and regulated research data. With more than 200 research projects across the university working with data subject to heightened security and compliance requirements, you'll help researchers manage, process, and use their data effectively while navigating increasingly complex research computing environments.\nWorking directly with faculty, principal investigators, researchers, and students, you'll bring technical expertise to the full research lifecycle - from data collection and processing to advanced computing, workflow automation, and research outcomes. You'll also help shape how researchers interact with USC's secure computing services, streamline manual processes, and create scalable workflows that make sophisticated research infrastructure easier to use.\nIf you enjoy solving complex data problems, building and automating computational workflows, and applying your technical skills in an environment where your work directly enables research and discovery, this is an opportunity to make an impact across USC's research community.\nKey Responsibilities & Accountabilities\nDesign and manage secure data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, de-identification, and export of sensitive research datasets within approved computing enclaves.\n\nDevelop, implement, and maintain data management plan and data usage agreements that satisfy federal sponsor requirements (NSF, NIH, DoD, DoE, etc.).\n\nManage necessary documentation work including data management plan, usage agreement, SOPs, SSPs, POA&M for audits and sponsor reviews.\n\nCoordinate with Cybersecurity Office for incident management.\n\nDesign and implement data architecture solutions that translate business and research requirements into conceptual, logical, and physical data models, prototypes, testing approaches, and sustainable processes.\n\nSupport faculty, principal investigators, researchers, and students with research data management and advanced computing workflows, including projects involving sensitive or regulated data.\n\nDevelop and maintain data architecture standards, protocols, frameworks, documentation, and techniques while performing root cause analysis and developing strategies to prevent recurring data-management issues.\n\nCreate and automate data-processing and research workflows that reduce manual effort and support efficient use of USC's secure computing environment.\n\nDevelop and deliver onboarding, training, and guidance to help researchers appropriately manage sensitive data and navigate secure research computing processes.\n\nPartner with technical teams and stakeholders to define workflows for the secure computing user portal, including processes associated with research project setup and data-use requirements.\n\nResearch and recommend data tools, services, API integration approaches, and process improvements that advance USC's enterprise data and analytics capabilities.\n\nQualifications\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor's degree.\n\nCombined experience/education as substitute for minimum education.\n\n2 years' work experience.\n\nDemonstrated working knowledge of federal compliance regulations including FERPA, FISMA, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, DFARS/CMMC, etc.\n\n2+ years of experience in research data management, data governance, IT compliances, or information security. Experience with Linux system, scripting (pythoin, bash), databases (SQL, PostgresSQL, etc.).\n\nFirm understanding of data modeling, master data management, enterprise data warehousing, ETL, reporting, querying, requirements analysis, and data integration techniques.\n\nUnderstanding of database server architecture, administration, and security.\n\nAbility to understand and work with large, complex IT systems.\n\nExperience contributing to and managing development policies, from planning through execution.\n\nPerseverance, drive and keen attention to detail.\n\nKnowledge of network architecture.\n\nExcellent written and oral communication skills, presenting technical topics in a technically-oriented detailed fashion to technical audiences.\n\nAbility to develop positive working relationships and strong rapport with team members and stakeholders.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or a related field; an advanced degree in computer science, information systems, science, engineering, biomedical computing, or a related computational discipline is highly desirable.\n\nFour years of relevant professional experience.\n\nHands-on research experience, particularly within science, engineering, biomedical computing, or another computationally intensive research discipline.\n\nDemonstrated understanding of the end-to-end research lifecycle and experience working directly with faculty, researchers, laboratories, or research teams.\n\nStrong programming and scripting capabilities, particularly Python, with hands-on experience working in Linux environments.\n\nPractical experience with SQL, databases, data processing, batch scripting, and workflow automation.\n\nExperience developing or supporting sophisticated computational and data workflows in research or advanced computing environments.\n\nKnowledge of research data security, data sensitivity, data classification, and regulated-data practices.\n\nFamiliarity with federal research or data-security frameworks such as FedRAMP and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) requirements is preferred but not required.\n\nAbility to translate technical, data-management, and compliance requirements into practical processes and guidance for researchers who may not specialize in these areas.\n\nAbility to work effectively across technical and research communities and communicate complex requirements to faculty, principal investigators, researchers, students, and technical partners.\n\nUSC Unifying Values Statement\nIn addition, the successful candidate must also demonstrate, through ideas, words and actions, a strong commitment to USC's Unifying Values of integrity, excellence, community, well-being, open communication, and accountability.\nCompensation, Benefits, & Working Conditions\nPay Transparency Statement\nThe annual base salary range for this position is $126,077.70 - $150,000.00. When extending an offer of employment, the University of Southern California considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, federal, state, and local laws, contractual stipulations, grant funding, as well as external market and organizational considerations.\nBenefits Statement\nTo support faculty and staff well-being, USC provides benefits-eligible employees with a broad range of benefits and perks to help protect their and their dependents' health, wealth, and future. These benefits are available as part of the overall compensation and total rewards package. You can learn more about USC's comprehensive benefits here.\nEqual Opportunity & Background Check Statement\nUSC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.\nMinimum Education: Master's degreeCombined experience/education as substitute for minimum education\nMinimum Work Experience: 3 years\nCombined experience/education as substitute for minimum work experience\nMinimum Field of Expertise:\nDemonstrated knowledge of the research process, proposal lifecycle, data lifecycle, and workflows.\nAdvanced knowledge in Linux/Unix and extensive experience in building, installing, and maintaining open source\nsoftware in high-performance computing environment.\nDemonstrated experience conducting research in a higher education environment and providing technical support\nfor research projects.\nFamiliarity with shared memory and distributed memory parallelism (e.g., OpenMP, MPI, OpenACC), accelerators\n(e.g., GPUs), and large-scale file systems.\nProven expertise in Unix/Linux shell scripting and one or more programming language (e.g., C/C++, Python, Perl,\nMATLAB).\nStrong debugging and troubleshooting skills.\nStrong understanding of high-performance computing topics as well as the data and programming efforts involved in\nHPC/Cloud.\nExperience communicating technical details to non-technical audiences (e.g., documentation, training, public\nspeaking).\nProven ability to successfully manage and prioritize multiple projects and plans, implement project specifications,\nreport project status, identify delays, and raise concerns.\nExceptional interpersonal skills, including demonstrated ability to interact effectively with a variety of stakeholders\nincluding researchers, IT staff, IT leadership, and university administrators.\nAwareness of compliance regulations surrounding research data including federal requirements and granting agency\nstandards.\nAbility to develop positive working relationships and a strong rapport with team members.\n\nUSC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law or USC policy. USC observes affirmative action obligations consistent with state and federal law. USC will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal records in a manner consistent with applicable laws and regulations, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for employers and the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and with due consideration for patient and student safety. Please refer to theBackground Screening Policy Appendix D for specific employment screen implications for the position for which you are applying.\nWe provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants with questions about access or requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should contact USC Human Resources by phone at (213) 821-8100, or by email at . 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