Department: Information Technology Services

Classification: Administrative Faculty

Job Category: Administrative or Professional Faculty

Job Type: Full-Time

Work Schedule: Full-time (1.0 FTE, 40 hrs/wk)

Location: Fairfax, VA

Workplace Type: On Site Required

Sponsorship Eligibility: Not eligible for visa sponsorship

Salary: Up to $182,000 annually; commensurate with education and experience

Criminal Background Check: Yes

About the Department:

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) department drives the university’s digital modernization, technical strategy, and institutional agility through four foundational pillars: Enterprise Infrastructure, Applications, Architecture, and Research. Operating centrally within Information Technology Services (ITS), the Research pillar identifies, prototypes, evaluates, and scales cutting-edge computing environments, automated workflows, and advanced intelligence applications. The unit focuses on shifting manual paradigms into optimized digital patterns, deploying high-performance systems, and ensuring emerging platforms are safely and effectively integrated into the fabric of the university to support institutional strategy.

About the Position:

The Director, Enterprise Research & Automation Services provides strategic and technical leadership over the university’s institutional research and automation systems, advanced research pipelines, and enterprise automation strategies. This position oversees the engineering, optimization, and scaling of the Mason Research, Intelligence, Data, and Automation Systems platform, as well as enterprise-wide workflow automation initiatives. The Director manages a dedicated team of professional staff and student developers to run rapid-prototyping initiatives, eliminate manual operational friction, and support advanced research computing—all while operating in strict compliance with cybersecurity, data privacy, and technology governance frameworks established by the Chief Information Officer's (CIO’s) office.

Responsibilities:

Advanced Research & Automation Platform Engineering Leadership:

• Serve as the focal point for Central Research Services to the Office of Research and Compute, and the Distributed GMU Research community—supporting GMU Research Council and stakeholder forums/working groups, etc.;

Department: Information Technology Services

Classification: Administrative Faculty

Job Category: Administrative or Professional Faculty

Job Type: Full-Time

Work Schedule: Full-time (1.0 FTE, 40 hrs/wk)

Location: Fairfax, VA

Workplace Type: On Site Required

Sponsorship Eligibility: Not eligible for visa sponsorship

Salary: Up to $182,000 annually; commensurate with education and experience

Criminal Background Check: Yes

About the Department:

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) department drives the university’s digital modernization, technical strategy, and institutional agility through four foundational pillars: Enterprise Infrastructure, Applications, Architecture, and Research. Operating centrally within Information Technology Services (ITS), the Research pillar identifies, prototypes, evaluates, and scales cutting-edge computing environments, automated workflows, and advanced intelligence applications. The unit focuses on shifting manual paradigms into optimized digital patterns, deploying high-performance systems, and ensuring emerging platforms are safely and effectively integrated into the fabric of the university to support institutional strategy.

About the Position:

The Director, Enterprise Research & Automation Services provides strategic and technical leadership over the university’s institutional research and automation systems, advanced research pipelines, and enterprise automation strategies. This position oversees the engineering, optimization, and scaling of the Mason Research, Intelligence, Data, and Automation Systems platform, as well as enterprise-wide workflow automation initiatives. The Director manages a dedicated team of professional staff and student developers to run rapid-prototyping initiatives, eliminate manual operational friction, and support advanced research computing—all while operating in strict compliance with cybersecurity, data privacy, and technology governance frameworks established by the Chief Information Officer's (CIO’s) office.

Responsibilities:

Advanced Research & Automation Platform Engineering Leadership:

• Serve as the focal point for Central Research Services to the Office of Research and Compute, and the Distributed GMU Research community—supporting GMU Research Council and stakeholder forums/working groups, etc.;