The Questrom School of Business at Boston University anticipates an opening for a non-tenure-track Clinical Assistant Professor trained in Information Systems. The anticipated start date for this faculty position is July 1, 2023.
We seek outstanding candidates who would be comfortable in, stimulated by, and engaged with both the graduate and undergraduate student populations as well as corporate partners. Candidates with relevant experience in industry are encouraged to apply; at least 3 years of industry experience is desired.
Faculty will be expected to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the Undergraduate and MS in Digital Technology program. The latter program is a technical Masters of Science program obtained by many of our MBA students. Faculty will also be asked to assist students in capstone projects focusing on all aspects of information systems research and digital transformation of business.
Required Skills
Candidates holding a PhD from a technical field and/or business disciplines with expertise in information systems, operations research, computer science, product management, and analytics are particularly encouraged to apply. We will also strongly consider applicants from related technical fields, such as Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Math, Statistics, and Physics.
Candidates should have a minimum of 3 years of experience in the design, implementation, deployment and management of modern data-driven and cloud-deployed enterprise systems. Candidates should be excellent communicators and possess recent documented success in teaching.
Candidates should have knowledge of system architecture from the hardware level, through system and application software levels, up to the business level. Accordingly, candidates should have both academic and practical industry experience with system architecture across scales. Candidates should be able to place current design concepts and considerations into historical context, requiring a working knowledge of the last several decades of enterprise computing and the challenges and solutions faced therein as well as how these lessons apply to today's systems. In addition to this historical context, instructors must have experience and knowledge of the latest system design considerations in the cloud, including the problems that arise and how to avoid them. Candidates should know the history and deployment of distributed systems; asynchrony and parallelism among other capabilities needed for scaled deployment. Instructors must be facile with the design and implementation of such systems at a technical level.
Our program makes heavy use of Python. Candidates must have strong programming skills, and the ability to map the design concepts being taught to practical programming projects and exercises. We employ custom code bases in our coursework, candidates need to be able to work with and expand these code bases. Further, candidates must be able to guide novice programmers through "real world" parallel and asynchronous code both in front-end and in back-end systems as well as some experience with UI/UX. Accordingly instructors must have experience programming systems that make use of event handling and chaining. To do this successfully requires excellent programming chops, and fantastic communication skills.
Our courses marry this technical content with business frameworks and exploration of situations where technical and managerial decisions had to be made in concert (or where they failed to be, and the consequences of this). Candidates must thus also be versed in real world examples of how business and technology mesh, both from the big-tech firms and from other companies that use their products and services and/or build their own in-house solutions. Applicants should be able to explain from context where not just the technical but also the business advantage lies in the cloud, and also what the cloud cannot do. Instructors should be equipped with examples where architectural decisions lead to business success and failures.
How To Apply
The Questrom School of Business believes that the cultural and social diversity of our faculty, staff, and students is vitally important to the distinction and excellence of our research and academic programs. To that end, we are especially eager to have colleagues join our ranks who support our institutional commitment to ensuring BU is inclusive, equitable, diverse, and a place where all constituents can thrive. The Questrom School of Business seeks to continue diversifying our faculty, student and staff ranks, recognizing that diversity of experience and thought deepens the intellectual endeavor.
The Questrom School of Business offers generous research and teaching support. The salary is competitive and commensurate with experience.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
DO NOT APPLY THROUGH THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY HR WEBSITE.
Interested parties should apply via https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/23346
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Bin Gu
Professor
Boston University
Boston MA
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