Digital Enterprise Director

Department: Computer Science
Vacancy ID: 022161
Closing Date: 08-Jun-2023

The Role

Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.

We are seeking an experienced Digital Enterprise Director to help lead our Research, Technology Development and Innovation (RTDI) project, DecaMap (formerly CoPilot-AI). This project won the overall prize in the recent Science Foundation Ireland-Defence Organisation Innovation Challenge competition and focuses on providing a comprehensive digital Common Operational Picture to support Responders in managing Emergency Events such as Wildfires. 

The Digital Enterprise Director will work closely with the DecaMap PrincipaI Investigators: Prof. Tim McCarthy (PI) and Prof. John McDonald (Co-PI) and wider Ops Board Team and will be in charge of overall RTDI activities in developing core DecaMap Data Platform technologies. These platform technologies include data-streams captured by Spaceborne, Aerial, Drone and Mobile platforms equipped with various multi-thematic sensors (Optical, LiDAR, Navigation etc). Highly automated processors, toolkit and workflows will be developed on DecaMap cloud based platforms to ingest, index, fuse, analyse and visualise these datasets. The Digital Enterprise Director will lead on stakeholder engagement, collating end-user needs and coordinating prototype development and trials with the DecaMap Research and Software Engineering team.

Salary

Salary €73,486 p.a. (pro rata if part-time).

Appointments will be made in accordance with public sector pay provisions.

Closing Date:

23:30hrs (local Irish time) on  Thursday, 8th June 2023.

Please note all applications must be made via our Online Recruitment Portal at the following link:

https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/human-resources/vacancies

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified above. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system.

Late applications will not be accepted.

Maynooth University is an equal opportunities employer 

The position is subject to the Statutes of the University