El 2 (S&t Level 6) - High Performance Computing

$125,622 - $150,785 (plus Super)
- Edinburgh - SA, Fishermans Bend - VIC

**The Role**

The HPC Discipline Leader Computational Workflows will be responsible for leading a team of HPC researchers and developers that provide high performance workflows and new science discovery functions to Computational Data and Information Sciences

Duties include:

- Lead and inspire staff to further S&T research and practice in the high-performance workflows and new science discovery domains. This includes workflow and data optimisation, machine learning, data visualisation, computer system benchmarking and code optimisation.
- Work with stakeholders from other areas to provide the vision, guidance, direction, coordination and collaboration necessary to ensure the capability can be harnessed for the delivery of agreed outputs to Defence.
- Set work priorities, manage staff and lead the team in the timely delivery of agreed client outcomes.
- Communicate complex research and analysis in a clear, understandable manner to a diverse audience, including those with both technical and non-technical backgrounds of different ranks and levels, and at national and international conferences.
- Prepare scientific publications and reports to a high standard, present outcomes, demonstrate technologies and interact with academic/scientific community.
- Develop and enhance S&T capability through targeted collaboration and/or interaction with other DSTG teams, academia, industry, Defence stakeholders, and other research agencies in Australia or overseas.
- Develop and manage research agreements and contracts with academia, industry, and other research agencies in Australia or overseas.
- Stay up to date with the latest HPC trends and technologies and contribute to the development of new solutions and products.

**About our Team**
Research Technology and Operations Division (RTO) delivers specialist capabilities to Defence Innovation Science and Technology (IS&T). RTO comprises a professional workforce of engineers, technicians, computational scientists and other staff who provide a wide range of highly specialised and unique research capability and innovative solutions delivering advanced research platforms for defence, national security and the wider IS&T ecosystem. RTO capabilities accelerate and protect Defence’s science and technology advances and promote a collaborative, compliant, safe and healthy workplace.

RTOs work areas include:

- Emerging digital science capabilities, including computational and data intensive science, research data and information and laboratory and experimental systems.
- Scientific computing including the development and acquisition of a world-class secure High Performance Computing (HPC) capability for advance modelling and simulation.
- Nationally recognised, unique and novel research engineering capabilities.
- Development and implementation of the Outstanding Research Infrastructure Powering Innovation pillar, a major component of the More Together: Defence Science and Technology Strategy 2030.
- Defence innovation, science and technology compliance, assurance and sovereignty through complex research safety, research security, workforce capability and talent and scientific resource management.

RTO also provides specialised research enabling capabilities to other groups and services with Defence, the Australian Intelligence communities, our allies and/or our partners in industry and academia.

Within Digital Science and Scientific Computing (DSSC), the Computational and Data Intensive Sciences (CDIS) conducts research and innovates where Science and Technology (S&T) converges with computing infrastructure to deliver increased research productivity and enabling new science discovery for Defence researchers. This encompasses DSTG's HPC and cloud platforms and multi-disciplinary S&T areas like workflow optimisation, machine learning, data visualisation, computer system benchmarking and code optimisation; and providing expert S&T advice in those areas.

With a strong emphasis on security that is critical to Defence, it extends to include research focussed DevSecOps platforms and tools which enables DSTG researchers with ready-to-use common computational S&T tools, trusted code repositories, container support paired with code automations supporting secure-by-design development.