Job: Senior Application Developer at Art Institute of Chicago

[Kevin Ford]

Hi all,

The posting below doesn't mention linked data, but we do use an RDF
model under the hood and have grand plans of doing linky data stuff
(technical term), especially with bridging the data we have in our
collections database and our library's database (ILS). It's a Library,
Archives, and Museum world.

Contact me off-list if you have any specific questions.

All the best,
Kevin
Art Institute of Chicago



Senior Application Developer

Full time
Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL
Description

Job ID: 9829

The Art Institute of Chicago is seeking a Senior Application Developer
for a full-time, salaried position to support the ongoing development
and maintenance of a Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) for the
Museum collections.

The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) is a world-renowned art museum
housing one of the largest permanent collections in the United States.
It is encyclopedic in nature with strong holdings across all media, all
traditions and all ages. The Art Institute is particularly recognized
for its extraordinary Impressionist, Modern, Contemporary, Asian and
American collections, among other aspects of its holdings.

The AIC Collections DAMS, named LAKE, was launched in Spring 2017. LAKE
is poised to become the Museum’s central repository for preserving,
managing, accessing and publishing millions of digital assets related to
the life cycle of all AIC collection items. LAKE will store very diverse
kinds of digital assets and will be accessed by staff from over 25
departments with widely different access levels. LAKE is also meant to
integrate with several existing applications and data sources as both a
data provider and a data consumer.

LAKE is a groundbreaking effort by a major museum to embrace
standards-based, community-driven open source software to build its core
data repository. It is an exciting and challenging project requiring
skilled, forward-thinking individuals with a strong commitment to its
core values.


DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsible for developing, maintaining, deploying, testing and
documenting software related to LAKE which consists of a serving as the
main data store; an based on Hydra; an -based integration framework;
triplestore and Solr indexes; a Python ETL framework used to migrate and
synchronize data from other systems; and a set of mirror systems
(Fedora, Solr, IIIF server) specifically aimed at serving web-published
data.
Primarily focused on the Hydra front end and ETL scripts while also
providing backup support for the other areas of the LAKE architecture.
Prioritize work according to tickets assigned via a bug tracking
system (Redmine), update these tickets as work progresses, and request
feedback via the same ticketing system when needed.
Review other developers' code, comment on commits and manage
merging of pull requests and branches.
Monitor the health and performance of systems on which LAKE runs,
help to configure new systems, upgrade local software packages and apply
security patches promptly.Coordinate these activities with the Network
Services and systems administration staff.
Provide realistic work estimates, deliver in a timely manner,
collaborate with other team members on overlapping areas, and switch
between different projects according to priorities.
Dedicate time to researching new technologies and keeping abreast
of current tools, best practices and patterns used in relevant
technologies as well as in the Digital Humanities fields. Attendance to
conferences and other events related to museum and repository technology
is expected.
Collaborate and initiate discussion with other team members on
issues involving multiple areas of LAKE and other applications as
needed. Interaction with communities supporting upstream projects is
also expected – if necessary, participating in interest groups and
working groups on topics shared with other institutions.
Maintain good working relationships with the Collections
development team, other departments of the museum in order and
occasionally with on or off-site contractors to identify and address
system requirements.


Qualifications


Bachelors or Masters degree in a related field is required.

Primary requirements:

Working experience with Ruby on Rails, especially with complex gem
stacks; previous experience with Hydra is ideal.
Working experience with Python (3.4 or higher).
Proficiency in Solr (5.5 or higher) query and schema language;
SolrCloud administration a plus.
Thorough understanding of the HTTP protocol and REST API patterns.
Previous experience with large and complex data repositories a plus.
Experience with or ability to learn the IIIF protocol, Mirador,
Universal Viewer, RDF, semantic stores and SPARQL is ideal.

Experience building functional, intuitive interfaces with HTML, CSS
and JS frameworks (JQuery, Bootstrap) preferred.
Experience with configuring Apache httpd, Tomcat, Varnish cache,
and other server systems is helpful.

https://hrweb.artic.edu/recruit/applyjob.html