Senior Manager, Research Storage & Data Infrastructure

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 126,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is seeking an experienced Senior Manager of Research Storage & Data Infrastructure to lead RIS storage platforms, oversee security, backup, and disaster recovery, and partner with researchers and vendors to advance data-driven science.

You will guide strategy for HPC, AI workloads, genomics and imaging data, manage a team of storage engineers, and ensure reliable, scalable systems that support world-class biomedical research initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in business administration, computer science, data science, information science or related field.
• 8+ years of progressive IT experience with storage infrastructure, research computing environments, or large-scale data platforms.
• Experience leading complex projects with resources, vendors and budgets.
• 3+ years of experience leading technical teams or infrastructure operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the roadmap for St. Jude’s centralized research storage platforms, including high-performance file systems, object storage, archival storage, cloud-integrated storage, and secure research environments.
• Lead architecture planning for AI, machine learning, scientific computing, research instrumentation, and emerging research technologies.
• Evaluate new technologies and vendor solutions to improve performance, resilience, scalability, user experience, and cost efficiency.
• Support institutional planning for significant increases in research data volume and complexity.
• Ensure reliable operation of research storage services supporting HPC, AI, regulated environments, institutional applications, and data-intensive science.
• Establish and monitor service-level objectives, operational metrics, capacity forecasts, and performance benchmarks.
• Develop reporting and dashboards to support leadership decision-making, budgeting, procurement, and lifecycle planning.
• Lead incident management, root-cause analysis, change management, and continuous service improvement activities.

Skills

Storage management

Team leadership

Vendor management

Infrastructure governance

Storage architecture

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in related field

Tools

IBM Storage Scale

GPFS

Lustre

Job description

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is seeking an experienced Senior Manager of Research Storage & Data Infrastructure to lead RIS storage platforms, oversee security, backup, and disaster recovery, and partner with researchers and vendors to advance data-driven science.

You will guide strategy for HPC, AI workloads, genomics and imaging data, manage a team of storage engineers, and ensure reliable, scalable systems that support world-class biomedical research initiatives.