The Associate Director supervises two Assistant Directors, who each manage four to five full time master’s level professional staff (Resident Directors), has significant responsibility for overseeing daily operations and coordinates all departmental operations related to professional and senior staffing, including, but not limited to, the management of recruitment, selection, training and evaluation. In addition, the position serves as a liaison between the Office of Residence Life and other university offices to create a seamless residential experience that supports the growth and development of students.

This role focuses on driving the "outer relationship" with users—faculty, researchers, and students—to deeply understand, architect, and translate complex computational workflows into scalable technical solutions. Rather than simply maintaining existing infrastructure, the Research Computing Engineer provides strategic leadership, engineers robust processes, and drives long-term planning to ensure the HPC ecosystem proactively evolves alongside the university's research mission.