Senior Application Developer
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries seeks a progressive programmer to
join its growing Digital Library Developer team. Working with an innovative
blend of open-source and best-in-breed development tools, the Senior
Application Developer creates software for multiple, complex digital library
projects in the areas that include discovery, repository systems, researcher
profile services, and business intelligence. Project work is designed and
executed in teams comprised of software engineers, subject matter experts, and
operations staff that emphasize collaboration and creative problem solving
across a range of disciplines. The position reports to the Director for
Digital Library Development and Systems, and supports a wide range of
computing services which enhance and facilitate teaching, learning and
research efforts of the University. Digital library development makes use of a
full range of skills, including coding, technical architectures, application
specifications, database design, and workflow analysis. The Senior Developer
is responsible, along with other programmers, for testing, quality assurance
and the life cycle management of library applications. The Senior Developer is
a participant in and at times leads project teams to implement IT services,
technical solutions and designs, and often has the support of a small crew of
junior developers. The position also provides expertise on metadata that are
relevant to digital library implementation and the development of local,
reusable methodologies for metadata interactions.

  
The Senior Developer operates with a high degree of independence and
professionalism in managing job responsibilities, work priorities,
methodologies, and routines. The position requires a readiness to research IT
developments and tools, to apply the findings of research to design and
programming, and in general, to bring best practices and the latest concepts
in the field to application development. The position is responsible for
researching, recommending, managing and maintaining technical metadata
standards for structured data repositories such as Oracle & MySQL databases,
Apache Jackrabbit, Solr, and XML documents. The senior developer participates
in IT planning as well as the execution of planning priorities.

  
The work requires close collaboration with a variety of audiences, including
Library staff at all levels, project managers and developers across campus,
Penn faculty and researchers, and IT professionals from other institutions and
commercial firms. The Senior Developer must be highly effective working in
groups and with subject matter experts who may not be IT professionals. The
successful candidate will join a team of energetic and creative contributors.
Responsibilities include timely and responsive communication, fulfillment of
deadlines, and a readiness to engage in the bidirectional sharing of knowledge
and expertise with colleagues.

  
_Qualifications_

  
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or other relevant
field and at least 3 years of experience application development in Object
Oriented and scripting languages or equivalent combination of education and
experience.

  
Master's desirable. Demonstrated experience with MVC development frameworks,
version control, and application deployment (Git), servlet containers,
application server and Java Virtual Machine configuration. Experience required
working in a Linux server environment. Experience with relational database
design, development and use including Oracle or MySQL. Experience with
indexing and search technologies, such as Apache Lucene and Apache Solr, and
Ruby on Rails is desirable. Effective interpersonal communication is a must
and demonstrated experience working in cross-agency project teams is highly
preferred.



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