Program Director - High Performance Computing

General Dynamics•Washington, DC

62d•Remote

About The Position

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. Our work depends on a Program Director joining our team to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputer System (WCOSS). WCOSS provides NOAA the operational High Performance Computing (HPC) resources essential to process sophisticated numerical models used to predict and understand atmospheric and oceanic phenomena for weather and climate operational use. Operating 24/7, the 10-year WCOSS program will deliver significant computational capability that will evolve over time to keep pace with NOAA's growing environmental modeling needs. We are looking for individuals to join GDIT's team to operate and support leading-edge technology for WCOSS and support the deployment of a new cutting edge HPC system.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred and minimum of 5 years of experience as a Program Manager for large ($500M), high-visibility federal government contract(s)
Project Management Professional Certification
Possesses project management experience in a High Performance Computing (HPC) environment
Must be able to communicate clearly and succinctly to Government stakeholders (e.g. Program Offices, HPC end users, etc.), including senior level management
Demonstrated technical experience architecting or maintaining high-performance computers
Demonstrated experience managing teams of geographically dispersed staff
Demonstrated experience developing and sustaining productive relationships with demanding clients in a mission-critical operational environment
Employee Management
High-Performance Computing (HPC) Systems
Leadership
Program Management
Project Management
15 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required

Nice To Haves

Informed understanding of the role that high-performance computing plays in weather forecasting
Experience with Top500 Cray EX systems, including Slingshot high-speed fabric, liquid cooling, Lustre file systems, and/or HPCM cluster management software
Experience with mission-critical high-performance computing programs, with challenging operational SLAs and low tolerance limits for system outages or issues
Graduate degree in computer or physical sciences
PMP certification

Responsibilities

Responsible for all aspects of the development and implementation of assigned projects, and provides a single point of contact for those projects
Serves as the Contractor interface for the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR)
Support WCOSS HPC operational systems 24x7 support team and processes
Supports implementation of new HPC operational system in concert with maintaining legacy system operations
Provides leadership and mentoring to senior HPC professionals
Ensures compliance with NIST and FISMA security control requirements
Takes projects from original concept through to final implementation
Interfaces with all areas affected by the project, including end users, computer services, and client services
Develops detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports
Conducts project meetings, and is responsible for project tracking and analysis
Ensures adherence to quality standards and reviews project deliverables
Leads the integration of vendor tasks, and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables
Provides technical and analytical guidance to project team
Recommends and takes action to direct the analysis and solutions of problems

Benefits

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire.
The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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