Project Manager to Support DeiC’s Development Projects and International Initiatives on High Performance Computing – Aarhus or Lyngby

We are looking for a project manager who can facilitate our growing project portfolio, which includes software development, international collaboration and coordination, as well as delivering quality process support in the operations of our HPC services.

If you have a solid technical foundation and experience in creating structure in complex development projects with a broad spectrum of stakeholders, we can offer you a position in a progressive and international environment, where we work to support High Performance Computing (HPC) in Danish research.

About the job

In DeiC’s HPC department, we are involved in a variety of national and international collaborations, all centered on digital research infrastructure. We work with Denmark’s eight universities, international peers, industry, public authorities, and the other DeiC departments working with quantum computing and data management.

We help facilitate Danish researchers’ access to the LUMI supercomputer, which ranks in the Top 10 fastest in the world, as well as to the national HPC services DeiC Interactive HPC and DeiC Throughput HPC. We develop open-source software that helps our users more easily utilize supercomputers and HPC.

Your primary focus in the HPC department will be on:

• Processes: Ensuring structure and progress in the development projects in the technical teams in the DeiC HPC department. A significant part of the role is about collaborating with developers on priorities, refinement, scheduling, and defining tasks and objectives.
• Consultancy tasks: Preparing proposals, documentation, project reports, advisory material, and communication for users. Coordination with partners, advisory forums, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Structuring and supporting some of the operational work around the services, procedures, guides, and user contact.

Your competencies

You have experience with the development of applications and services in larger organizations and with open-source communities or similarly “loosely coupled” collaborations. Methods and ceremonies are not as important as your ability to work in a structured and quality-conscious manner, to proactively maintain focus on project objectives, and step in where progress becomes challenged.

You work in a structured and methodical way with:

• Planning, risk management, and quality assurance
• Delivery and time management
• Stakeholder and vendor management
• Escalation of deviations and risks
• Communication and advisory tasks

In addition, you have:

• A master’s-level education
• An independent approach to your work. We work flexibly with staff located across Denmark
• A strong collaborative mindset and the ability to facilitate complex work with academic colleagues across borders, institutions, and fields

It is not essential that you have experience in the HPC field, as long as you have solid technological knowledge and are familiar with current standards, trends, and requirements in today’s tech industry. In the DeiC HPC department, there is always room to learn, share knowledge, and pursue continued education wherever your motivation leads. It is therefore important that you are motivated by having responsibility for a wide variety of tasks, both strategic and practical, and can take responsibility for your own knowledge-building and skills development.

In the DeiC HPC department, we place great emphasis on collaboration and shared learning, and you will play a key role in ensuring that all our initiatives align together. Our collaborations take place across a wide variety of different constellations, so your relational approach will also be important, as will your ability to communicate fluently in English, both written and spoken.

We offer you

• A chance to become part of a professional team dedicated to advancing HPC services for research and the public good.
• An organization that prioritizes work-life balance and offers flexible working hours along with the option for remote work (Approx. 2 days per week)
• Excellent opportunities for further developing your professional skills via courses, hackathons, self-study, and knowledge sharing with colleagues

Terms and practicalities

The job involves some travelling. Partly in connection with our international collaborations and visits to Danish universities, and partly for joint meetings between DeiC’s two offices in Lyngby and Aarhus. This amounts to approximately 10–15 travel days per year.

The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC) or in accordance with the CO10/LC Joint Agreement and the organization agreement for IT employees (Prosa) in the service of the state.

The workplace will be either at the DTU office at the DTU Campus in Lyngby or at the Aarhus office at the Aarhus University Campus.

Application and contact

Please submit your online application no later than 18 March 2026 (23:59 Danish time).

Open the “Apply now” link, fill out the form and attach your motivated application, CV and exam certificates. Applications received after the deadline, without CV’s or without a motivated application will not be considered.

We are planning for job interviews to be in week 13.

For more information please contact Rune Gamborg Ørum at rune.oerum@deic.dk or 45 9351 0036.

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, disability, race, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply. As DTU works with research in critical technology, which is subject to special rules for security and export control, open-source background checks may be conducted on qualified candidates for the position.

There is currently an ongoing evaluation of DeiC, which may change the organization’s strategic direction and structural placement going forward. We do not yet know the outcome, but we expect there to be a change process in the autumn of 2026.

DeiC is a unit under the Ministry of Education and Research and defined in regulation BEK615 of 23/05/2023. DeiC develops and coordinates collaboration on digital research infrastructure between universities with the aim of providing researchers with access to a digital research infrastructure enabling research and education at an international level.