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**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 Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/4674/