Digital Collections Developer at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting
Washington, D.C.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is looking for
an innovative and passionate individual to join our team and inspire citizens
and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human
dignity. With the primary mission of Rescuing the Evidence: building and
preserving for posterity the fully accessible collection of record on the
Holocaust, the Office of Collections is currently seeking a Digital
Collections Developer.

  
This position is located in the Office of Collections, Digital Collections
Division, of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The position
involves working under the administrative supervision of the Director of
Digital Collections to carry out tasks relating to applications software
development for the Digital Collections Division of the Office of Collections.
The candidate will provide creative, efficient, and elegant technical
solutions to inherently complex problems. The growing digital collection
comprises tens of millions of image files, tens of thousands of hours of
media, hundreds of thousands of descriptions, and about a dozen sources of
metadata. It all needs to be preserved and made available forever, and we want
to provide better user interfaces to support all of our constituents, both
internal users and via the web.

  
This is a full-time donated position (non-Federal) paid with the Museum's
private funds, with a two year work assignment. Salary is commensurate with
experience.

  
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  
Design, develop, and implement tools and systems that relate to processing,
identification, and access to the digitized historical assets held by or
overseen by the Office of Collections.

  
Develop software systems to enhance access to Collections materials including
digitized archival materials, photographs, and oral histories, historical
film, Museum objects, and various databases and sources of metadata. The work
consists of software and user interface design for new projects as well as
maintenance, modification, and refactoring of existing systems.

  
Use systems, tools, and approaches such as modern programming tools (e.g.
Java, Python, PHP); contemporary MVC (model-view-controller) frameworks as
embodied in systems such as Ruby on Rails; JQuery/JavaScript; Linux shell
scripting; TDD/BDD (test-driven development, behavior-driven development) and
code reviews; and source-code control (e.g. git, GitHub).

  
Plans and develops methods of operation to effectively work with metadata and
uses metadata transformation, search, discovery, and user interfaces for
Collections cataloging materials.

  
Interact frequently with other federal, public, and private institutions
dealing with similar subject matter collections, as well as with private
individuals both nationally and internationally, survivors of the Holocaust,
and other related individuals working in collections.

  
Develop and deploy open source and commercial software systems such as
Blacklight (the Ruby on Rails application), ArchivesSpace (archival cataloging
system), and ResourceSpace (a digital asset management system), or similar
systems.

  
Improve maintainability, performance, security, using refactor and update
systems, and maintain conformance with the community of users of each system.

  
Test and monitor systems for proper operation.

  
Implement test-driven development and/or behavior-driven development systems
to ensure proper operation.

  
Perform other duties as assigned.

  
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

At least two years developing code for production-quality, complex systems to
process and enhance access to library, museum, or archival metadata in a
professional or educational environment.

Experience with at least one MVC-oriented development frameworks such as Ruby
on Rails, Laravel, Django, or similar.

  
Experience developing and deploying applications using at least two
contemporary programming and web development languages such as Ruby, PHP,
Python, or server-side and/or client-side JavaScript.

  
Knowledge of metadata standards of representation and exchange that relate to
library or collections systems, such as MARC, EAD, METS, MODS, TEI and other
XML or JSON standards or guidelines.

  
Understanding of software development practices. Experience with refactoring
existing installed systems in order to enhance feature sets or upgrade to
newer versions. Experience with source code control systems such as git.
Experience with test-driven development (TDD) and/or behavior-driven
development (BDD). Experience customizing open source software.

  
Experience with theory and practice of relational databases such as MySQL
and/or SQL Server.

  
Familiarity with the Linux command line and shells (e.g. bash). Experience
developing and deploying production systems in a Linux environment.

  
Familiarity with source code control and collaborative development systems
(e.g. git, svn).

  
HOW TO APPLY

  
Interested applicants should send their resume and cover letter to
[log in to unmask] Please include both your resume and cover letter in a
single PDF or Word document titled "First Name Last Name". Salary history may
be required during the interview process. For more
information about the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, please visit
www.ushmm.org.

  
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
This position is open to all qualified individuals. If you are not a US
citizen, you must possess sufficient legal documentation and permission to
work in the United States (and provide if requested).



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