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UC Berkeley

Data/GIS Technology Lead

The University of California, Berkeley, is one of the world’s most iconic teaching and research institutions. Since 1868, Berkeley has fueled a perpetual renaissance, generating unparalleled intellectual, economic and social value in California, the United States and the world. Berkeley’s culture of openness, freedom and acceptance—academic and artistic, political and cultural—make it a very special place for students, faculty and staff.

Berkeley is committed to hiring and developing staff who want to work in a high performing culture that supports the outstanding work of our faculty and students. In deciding whether to apply for a staff position at Berkeley, candidates are strongly encouraged to consider the alignment of the Berkeley Workplace Culture with their potential for success at http://jobs.berkeley.edu/why-berkeley.html.

Application Review Date

The First Review Date for this job is: 2/4/2016

Departmental Overview

The UC Berkeley Library provides scholarly information to all faculty and students in the support of the University's research and instruction mission. The Library Applications & Publishing Group (LAP) provides technical support for Library, including developing, purchasing and/or supporting all types of hardware platforms and software applications. LAP has primary responsibility for supporting and building UC Berkeley Library’s Integrated Library System (ILS), Digital Library, and web presence.

The UC Berkeley Library is a leader in the investigation and implementation of advanced digital library services. Areas of current work include scalable digital library system architectures, developing efficient methods for creating digital library content, the long-term preservation of digital materials, and standards for digital objects, digitization, and archival collection descriptions. LAP supports digital library activities by providing managerial and technical analysis, writing programs to create digital content, writing, enhancing, and maintaining tools to publish, create, and manage digital objects, and training staff for projects that add content to our digital library.

Responsibilities

This position supports the Library’s data applications, including GIS, and other digital library programs and will adopt, adapt, develop and maintain software to provide a web-based geospatial discovery and access portal using open source technologies in an inter-institutional, community-based, development effort. The successful candidate will work to provision the necessary computing systems to support data services and implement and manage spatial data infrastructure, including administration of specialized GIS applications, including geoserver, geohydra, geoblacklight. They will develop software for the import and management of UCB’s GIS data collections., manage data services, e.g., OAI, SOLR API, data set management and access. In addition, they will play an active role in the higher education GIS researcher community, representing the UCB Library in the development of open source and consortial service efforts. This position will be relied on to provide technical expertise to project manager and other Library staff to define application specifications, staffing needs and timeline. In addition they will be relied upon to independently create specifications, design information architecture, coordinate and assign work with other programmers, determine system needs, and follow through with testing and quality control.

Required Qualifications

• Requires thorough knowledge of applications programming function.
• Requires interest in and knowledge of GIS technologies.
• Requires advanced skills associated with programming design, modification and implementation.
• Must be able to communicate technical information in a clear and concise manner with both technical and non-technical staff.
• Requires ability to understand business needs and how business systems can support those needs.
• Must be self motivated, work independently or as part of a team, able to learn quickly, meet deadlines and demonstrate problem solving skills.
• Must have advanced skills in web applications, web programming language and object oriented programming concepts.
• Requires experience with Perl, PHP, Python, or other programming languages
• Knowledge of shell scripting languages, e.g., sh, csh, ksh
• Knowledge of data services, e.g., OAI, SOLR API
• Demonstrated knowledge of Linux environment, tools, and libraries
• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript, XSTL, and XML
• Knowledge of raster and vector resources, geodatabase configuration and management tools (e.g., GeoServer, OpenLayers, OGC standards, etc).
• Experience in software engineering in web, solr-lucene, and database-backed application environments, and experience in contributing and/or defining the technical architecture of complex systems.
• Experience with, or knowledge of, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails, for application development and enhancements to framework, including plug-ins, engines and gems, for developing and deploying applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Has skills needed to develop conversion and system implementation plans.
• Knowledge of SQL language and experience with database software, e.g., MySQL
• Knowledge of different image formats
• Knowledge of CGI and Servlet programming
• Experience installing, upgrading, or configuring Apache
• Requires knowledge of other related areas of IT.
• Knowledge relating to the design and development of applications programs across the organization.

Salary & Benefits

The salary range is $58,700 to $85,000

For information on the comprehensive benefits package offered by the University visit:

http://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/compensation-and-benefits/index.html

How to Apply

Please submit your cover letter and resume as a single attachment when applying.