Job opportunity: Yale University Library seeks Digital Scholarship Developer

Description

Digital Scholarship Developer
Yale University Library
New Haven, CT
Requisition: 47577BR
http://bit.ly/2EXlQgu

Yale University offers exciting opportunities for achievement and growth in New Haven, Connecticut. Conveniently located between Boston and New York, New Haven is the creative capital of Connecticut with cultural resources that include two major art museums, a critically-acclaimed repertory theater, state-of-the-art concert hall, and world-renowned schools of Architecture, Art, Drama, and Music.

Position Focus: The Digital Scholarship Developer position is a member of the Digital Humanities Lab (DHLab) at Yale University, housed in Sterling Memorial Library at the heart of campus. The DHLab serves Yale scholars who wish to collaborate across disciplines, with a focus on science, technology, engineering, math, arts & humanities (STEAM) projects.

This position designs and builds rich-client, web-based applications to support the work of the Digital Humanities Lab (DHLab) at Yale University, with a special emphasis on the needs of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (FVAHT). Using dynamic scripting languages such as Python and Ruby, the Programmer/Analyst produces code that turns research ideas into concrete reality. Working in a team including a DH developer and a UX & Visual Designer, this position is responsible for both new software platforms as well as the integration of existing library enterprise systems in support of digital scholarship at Yale.

The Programmer/Analyst focuses on technological solutions and platforms crucial to the Fortunoff Video Archive's goal of providing sophisticated discovery and access systems for its collection, including the development and integration of Digital Humanities affordances. The majority of the websites in the DHLab fit modern MVC-based frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails, Flask or Django in a Linux web server environment. The position creates, maintains, and updates open-source repositories of code developed at Yale, as well as projects adapted from other institutions. The position works with both traditional relational and NoSQL database contexts, depending on the requirements of the project.

The individual in this position will work to capture requirements from project leaders in an ongoing and iterative process. This role has the primary responsibility for determining the architecture, design, data schema, and development timeline to bring technical projects to successful completion. This position works alongside faculty, students, and librarians as clients and collaborators, to specify and realize complex digital scholarship projects, and is responsible for evaluating project needs and recommending and implementing the best solution.

Required Education, Skills and Experience:

* Bachelor's degree in a related field and five years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
* Strong interpersonal and communications skills and demonstrated ability to work as part of collaborative teams. Ability to communicate effectively with faculty, students, and staff.
* Demonstrated project management skills including background managing multiple priorities and experience with full lifecycle development. Proven ability to participate in and lead iterative discovery of project requirements from clients and organize those requirements into logical project phases.
* Exceptional skill set in Ruby and/or Python; ability to implement code written in other languages (such as PHP frameworks and/or Node.js) as necessary.
* Proven ability to deploy code in web contexts, such as HTML5, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript, and jQuery or similar; proficiency in revision control systems (such as GitHub), the UNIX command line (such as OS X and Linux), and databases (such as MySQL, MongoDB etc.).
* Ability to work effectively in digital scholarship, academic technology, academic libraries, museums, cultural heritage or similar environments.

Yale University assigns ranks to librarian positions based on a combination of professional experience and accomplishments. Librarian ranking information can be found at: http://www.library.yale.edu/about/departments/lhr/rank.html.

Preferred Education, Skills and Experience: Master's Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or similar. Experience with one or more of the following: Crowd-sourced annotations, Corpus Query Engines, Geo-Spatial Analysis, Machine Learning Toolkits, or Data Visualization Libraries. Special consideration given to applicants with extensive experience working with Django, MongoDB, and one or more client-side MV* frameworks.

The University and the Library
The Yale University Library, as one of the world's leading research libraries, collects, organizes, preserves, and provides access to and services for a rich and unique record of human thought and creativity. It fosters intellectual growth and supports the teaching and research missions of Yale University and scholarly communities worldwide. A distinctive strength is its rich spectrum of resources, including around 15 million volumes and information in all media, ranging from ancient papyri to early printed books to electronic databases. The Library is engaging in numerous projects to expand access to its physical and digital collections. Housed in eighteen buildings including the Sterling Memorial Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Center for Science and Social Science Information, and the Bass Library, it employs a dynamic and diverse staff of approximately five hundred who offer innovative and flexible services to library readers. For additional information on the Yale University Library, please visit the Library's web site at www.library.yale.edu<http://www.library.yale.edu>.

Salary and Benefits
We invite you to discover the excitement, diversity, rewards and excellence of a career at Yale University. One of the country's great workplaces, Yale University offers exciting opportunities for meaningful accomplishment and true growth. Our benefits package is among the best anywhere, with a wide variety of insurance choices, liberal paid time off, fantastic family and educational benefits, a variety of retirement benefits, extensive recreational facilities, and much more.

How to Apply
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Applications, consisting of a cover letter, resume, and the names and contact information of three professional references should be submitted by applying online at http://bit.ly/2EXlQgu.

Yale University considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Yale discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
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