**Rice University** is a small private research university located in Houston, Texas, across from the Texas Medical Center. It has approximately 6,000 total undergraduate and graduate students and has a student to faculty ratio of less than 6 to 1.Rice University  
  
**Summary: **The Library Web Applications Developer II designs, develops, codes, tests, implements and manages innovative and complex web-based applications that improve the user experience in discovering, accessing, and using library resources and services. S/he gathers requirements, writes code, maintains documentation and works with the Web/Graphic Designer on web design and layout. S/he is responsible for maintaining various local and cloud based servers. This position reports to the Assistant University Librarian for Information Technology.  
  
**Education Required: **Bachelor's Degree  
Computer/information science/systems or an equivalent degree.
May substitute additional related
experience, above and beyond what is required, on an equivalent year for year
basis in lieu of the education requirement.

  
**Experience Required:** 5 years  
Five years of progressive work experience in designing, developing, coding and
maintaining data-driven applications. Three years of work experience in
maintaining Windows and Unix/Linux servers in a large networked
environment.

Education may not be substituted for the experience
requirement.

  
**Experience Preferred**  
- Experience in an academic library.  
- Experience with search/library discovery and/or repository applications.  
- Project management experience.  
  
**Other Skills Required:** Significant experience managing sophisticated web and database projects in all phases (design, testing, production) to schedule and budget.  
**Other Skills Preferred: **Solid understanding of current web standards as recommended by W3C including accessibility standards and cross browser issues.  
  
_Demonstrated ability:_

- To work with open source products - Plone, Python, Drupal, Fedora and DSpace  
- To program in XML, PHP, JavaScript, XSLT, XHTML, JQuery and Java.  
-To design relational databases using any of the following - MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL,or SQL server.  
-To work in a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) or Tomcat environment.  
- To work in Linux, Windows, and Mac platforms.  
-Expert level HTML and CSS, with understanding of HTML5 and CSS3.  
-Strong creative, conceptual, and problem-solving skills.  
-Ability to manage and prioritize tasks and work in a team.  
-Strong oral and written communication skills.  
  
**Security Sensitive: **  
  
  
**Essential Job Duties:**  
_80%_

- Design, develop, test, code, implement and manage complex web applications.  
- Meet with users to gather requirements of project and plan and prepare technical design and qualifications.  
- Work with Graphic Designer to layout user interface for project.  
- Work with the Digital Library to assist on digital projects.  
- Contribute to User Interface/User Experience and Usability testing.  
- Analyze, modify and maintain existing applications.  
- Prepare technical, operational and user related documentation in support of applications.  
- Research emerging technologies to extend and enhance library projects.  
- Work with Library Systems team to make sure applications interface with all aspects of library services.  
_15%_

- Maintain servers locally and in the cloud for 24x7 uptime.  
- Administer, install, configure, troubleshoot, and monitor web servers as well as other library project servers.  
_5%_

-Other duties as assigned 



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