Technical Job Descriptions

Overview description

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The (insert your job title) applies semantic web techniques and tools to populate and extend the open-source VIVO software (http://vivoweb.org) for discovery, presentation, visualization, and analysis.

• Analyze paper and electronic data flows and related business policies and workflows to ensure appropriate data management policies, practices and procedures
• Analyze, evaluate, and create scripts, programs and web services to support data integration and ongoing synchronization from diverse, distributed sources using tools like the VIVO Harvester
• Carry out additional data management tasks including data mining, metadata discovery, data quality management and data security management
• Evolve, automate, and scale data policies and procedures in collaboration with team members

Required qualifications

• Web application development experience in Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby or similar language
• Ability to independently analyze complex problems and identify solutions
• Bachelor’s degree in an information science (library science, information science, computer science or equivalent) or other relevant discipline
• Ability to apply technology within and outside the body of knowledge and specialty of this position
• More than 3 years and less than 5 years experience

Desired qualifications

• Database programming experience in MYSQL and/or SQL Server
• Demonstrated programming applications experience including data integration, web services, and service oriented architectures.
• Experience working with metadata standards, ontologies, and thesauri.
• Familiarity with data interchange standards, including experience processing data and metadata using reasoning, rules, XML and XSLT.
• Familiarity with statistics, data mining, text mining libraries, algorithms, and applications.
• Experience with Agile Software Development methodologies. 

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