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Java Developer
Europeana
The Hague

Based at our beautiful office located on top of Central
Station in The Hague, you will work on a wide variety of European projects
together with a network of cultural institutions, research organizations and
creative industries from all over Europe to provide new forms of access to
culture.

  
Responsibilities

  
• Research, design, develop, and maintain our data infrastructure, API and
external interfaces in agile manner

  
• Develop and maintain cloud-based data ingestion tools for cultural heritage
content using traditional and novel protocols and practices

  
• Work with our dataset of cultural heritage collections and develop semantic
tools and algorithms to serve this data to the Europeana end users

  
• Work closely with business requirement owners to assess feasibility,
specificity and scope of tools and feature requirements

  
Skills / Experience

  
University level education in computer science or a related field, or an
equivalent combination of education and experience

5+ years of research and software development experience

Hands-on experience with designing and implementing semantic systems that
handle large data - experience with humanities data or multilingual data is a
strong advantage

Good written and spoken English with an ability to express complex technical
ideas to a non-technical audience

Open minded, rich with new ideas, practically oriented, team player

Development experience - first one is a must, the rest is advantageous

Thorough knowledge of and experience in Java development (Hibernate, JUnit,
Spring) in Linux, Apache environments

Knowledge of cloud technologies and development principles

Knowledge and experience in semantic libraries and platforms (Lucene, SOLR)
and industry standards (RDF, SKOS, Linked Open Data)

Knowledge on XML, XSLT, XML Schema, and other XML-related standards

Experience on relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and/or document
databases (e.g. MongoDB)

Experience on different SW development lifecycle tools and skills: Hudson,
SVN, Unit testing, and integration tools, such as Maven

Basic knowledge of Front end and other related technologies is an asset

Application Procedure

  
Please send us your CV (in English) with a cover letter to
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