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April 20, 2015

Read it online: http://duraspace.org/jobs
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*VIVO Project Seeks a Dynamic, Creative, and Innovative Technical Lead*

Are you ready to join an open source software community that’s 
transforming the landscape for open scholarship? VIVO’s mission is to 
provide world-class open source software, standard data ontologies, 
linked open data, and services to our world-wide member institutions. 
VIVO is at the forefront of a rapidly emerging infrastructure for 
integrating and sharing information about researchers and scholars and 
their activities and outputs so as to promote data sharing, attribution, 
and teamwork within and across institutions. The outcome is a platform 
that enables discovery across a distributed network of institutions 
worldwide.

VIVO seeks a dynamic, creative, and innovative Technical Lead for the 
project. The VIVO Technical Lead will play a major role in a movement 
that will shape the future of scholarly discovery and collaboration.  
The VIVO Technical Lead is a full-time position. Working collaboratively 
with the VIVO Project Director, accountable to the VIVO Steering Group, 
and employed by the non-profit DuraSpace organization, the Technical 
Lead will enable the VIVO community to accomplish its goals by 
fulfilling the following responsibilities:

*Overview of Responsibilities*

The VIVO Technical Lead will be responsible for providing leadership, 
technical guidance, coordination, and support to the open source 
community in its work to maintain, enhance, and evolve the VIVO software 
and ontology, and to integrate community-produced apps and tools.  The 
Technical Lead will ensure that the VIVO software products fulfill the 
mission and strategic direction of the project and the needs of 
community members.  Additionally, the Technical Lead will lead the 
effort to ensure that VIVO implementation tools and application 
interfaces are made user-friendly and provide value “out of the box.”

The Technical Lead will foster an inclusive, welcoming, and open team 
environment, based on a meritocracy of committers, contributors, 
ontologists, documentation specialists, technical trainers, and other 
volunteer contributors.  S/he will recruit new members to the team from 
the larger community of volunteers.  S/he will organize events such as 
hackathons, training sessions, implementation fests, and the like to 
provide multiple on-ramps for new contributors.

The Technical Lead will organize development sprints and team meetings 
that are oriented towards incorporating all the work of the project – 
core development, apps and tools creation, ontology work, documentation, 
etc. – into an established release schedule.

S/he will attend VIVO Steering Group, Leadership Group, and Management 
Team meetings. The Technical Lead, working in partnership with the 
Project Director, will oversee a process of eliciting and documenting 
new use cases that will be gathered from the VIVO membership.  The 
process will include steps for surveying the community on feature 
priorities and will culminate in a published, evolving roadmap of future 
work that aligns with the VIVO strategic plan and value proposition.

S/he will coordinate technology activities among the Implementation, 
Development, Applications and Tools, Ontology, and Community Engagement 
Working Groups; identify, document, and communicate dependencies between 
working groups; and identify solutions to enhance cross-working group 
collaborations. The Technical Lead will provide support to technology 
Task Forces and will monitor their progress.

S/he will provide oversight and coordination of VIVO architecture work 
and ensure that VIVO core code, ontology, and applications and tools 
meet open standards; will work with the community to support ontology 
improvements, integrate community extensions and deliver applications 
and tools as tested optional extensions to VIVO; maintain code base 
infrastructure; and coordinate release management and testing activities.

S/he will work collaboratively with developers and stakeholders to 
create and maintain a technical roadmap and will collaborate on 
strategic planning. S/he will develop an understanding of the impact of 
technical decisions on budgets, timelines, and the sustainability of the 
VIVO open source project.

The Technical Lead will act as a technology spokesperson for VIVO, 
speaking and giving presentations at meetings, conferences, and other 
events.

*The VIVO Technical Lead will coordinate project work by:*

  * Facilitating scoping of project efforts, soliciting and approving
    technology Task Forces, and soliciting community participation;
  * Tracking the progress of Task Force deliverables within defined
    scope and time;
  * Tracking, reporting, and communicating project status, progress, and
    deliverables among technology teams;
  * Identifying, addressing, and/or escalating issues that pose risks to
    the project;
  * Coordinating user acceptance testing within the community.


The VIVO Technical Lead will provide technical leadership, guidance, and 
support to VIVO Working Group leads and technology Task Forces in the 
following areas:

  * Software engineering;
  * Performance tuning;
  * Code refactoring;
  * Pull requests;
  * Ontology management;
  * System architecture;
  * Test writing;
  * Continuous integration testing;
  * Code documentation;
  * Release management;
  * Technical discussion on project email ;
  * Project infrastructure (email lists, blog, vivoweb.org
    <http://vivoweb.org/> website, IRC, issue tracking, continuous
    integration, GitHub code repository, SourceForge file repository,
    VIVO wiki resources).


*Skills and Competencies*

Required:

  * Bachelors degree, preferably in computer science, or equivalent work
    experience;
  * Minimum of five years technical work experience;
  * Demonstrated leadership experience within a distributed open source
    team environment;
  * Demonstrated success in mentoring, developing, and empowering staff
    with a collaborative and open approach; successful collaborations
    within and across organizations;
  * Positive leadership style and ability to thrive in a fast-paced
    environment; demonstrated initiative and flexibility;
  * Familiarity with academic institutions, research programs, and
    scholarly communication;
  * Ability to document processes and specifications; use of modern
    documentation strategies that are coupled to the code and services;
  * Fluency in the full stack of web-based technologies and architectures;
  * Experience with current and emerging data architectures and
    technologies;
  * Experience with linked-data technologies;
  * Proficiency with Java and web scripting languages;
  * Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, including the
    ability to communicate effectively with a diverse group of
    technologists, researchers, managers, funders, and peers;
  * Demonstrated ability to manage expectations and priorities
    diplomatically among various stakeholders.


*Desired:*

  * Past experience with and knowledge of best practices and current
    trends and issues in the application of technology to libraries,
    research programs, and academic institutions;
  * Experience working with a diverse and international community;
  * Experience in a startup environment;
  * Knowledge of semantic web and linked data technologies, SPARQL, RDF,
    OWL, relevant tools and APIs, and experience managing semantically
    annotated data, triple stores, and/or graph databases.


To Apply:  Send a cover letter and resume to [log in to unmask] 
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Screening of applications will commence 
immediately and continue until the position is filled.

DuraSpace is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization 
providing leadership and innovation for open technologies that promote 
durable, persistent access to digital data. We collaborate with 
scholarly, scientific, cultural, and technology communities by 
supporting open source projects and creating services to help ensure 
that current and future generations have access to our collective 
digital heritage.

DuraSpace is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer committed 
to diversity, equity, and inclusiveness. We offer a competitive salary 
and benefits package, a work-from-home lifestyle, and a supportive peer 
group. Significant travel is expected.

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