The Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is one of the most dynamic university campuses in Europe and ranks among the top 20 universities worldwide. The EPFL employs 6,000 people supporting the three main missions of the institutions: education, research and innovation. The EPFL campus offers an exceptional working environment at the heart of a community of 16,000 people, including over 10,000 students and 3,500 researchers from 120 different countries.
Technical Project Manager (W/M)
Your mission :
The Project Coordination Office (PCO) of the Human Brain Project (HBP) at EPFL, situated at the Campus Biotech in Geneva, Switzerland is looking to strengthen its Infrastructure team with an experienced:
Technical Project Manager (F/M) The HBP Technical Coordination Team seeks an experienced technical project manager to assist in the coordination of standard architecture and development practices across the HBP Research Infrastructure being developed, including 6 HBP Platforms:
Neuroinformatics
Brain Simulation
High Performance Analytics and Computing
Medical Informatics
Neuromorphic computing
Neurorobotics
The HBP is building a world-class infrastructure to enable open science research with the goal of substantially improving health care for brain-related diseases ranging from migraines to dementia.
You can get an overview of the HBP Platforms and some of the science they support from the 1st HBP Platform Release videos here:
Work in the Technical and Scientific Coordination team to monitor the progress of project implementation across 12 subprojects and 100+ partner associations.
Contribute to the development of a project management database and to the curation of its data.
Active participation in the activities of the HBP-wide Infrastructure Coordination working group(s).
Technical documentation for the architecture, software engineering and system engineering practices agreed upon by the project.
Transverse leadership to facilitate standardization of software and system engineering practices among key HBP contributors.
Support the preparation of future project proposals and Description of the Action documents
Essential skills and experience:
Strong software and ITC architecture and development background.
Proven ability to drive adoption and refinement of software development practices across a large project spanning multiple partner institutions and a great interdisciplinary team.
Excellent communication skills in spoken and written English.
Technical writing skills.
Some of the other things we like:
Analytics – from Google analytics to custom internal KPIs
Data visualization – the right picture is worth a 1000 words
Service Oriented Architectures
Cloud computing
Experience managing subcontractors
Experience with EC project procedures and rules.
Enjoy working in an interdisciplinary team bridging different disciplines, cultures and countries
Your profile :
Minimum of 7 years of experience and successful development track record for large collaborative software projects
We offer :
Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. Joining the HBP-PCO will put you at the centre of an effort to gain profound insights into what makes us human, develop new treatments for brain disease and build revolutionary new computing technologies.The HBP Technical Coordination Team in the HBP-PCO plays a central role in the larger HBP Platform effort to build solid scientific software tools and services. You will find yourself inspired by the exciting things that people around you are building and make a meaningful contribution to understanding the brain.We strive to find the right people and to keep our skills and insights sharp. We are a young, dynamic, interdisciplinary and international team. We focus on delivering high value to the scientific community and are involved in everything from community engagement to integrating scientific workflows with some of the world’s largest supercomputers. Work in the team involves open feedback, with opportunities for additional training to improve our skills.The HBP-PCO is a family friendly, equal opportunity employer (equality.epfl.ch/). We value diversity and explicitly encourage applications from women.Our offices benefit from a modern working environment based in Biotech Campus, 200 m from the shore of Lake Geneva (Lac Leman), in one of the best cities to live in the world, with on-site kindergarten. You will be in the centre of Europe with easy access by rail and Geneva airport to all that Europe has to offer.Join us and make an important contribution to the success of one of the most exciting projects of the 21st century! Start date :
