[Pasig-discuss] JOIN the DuraSpace team as the VIVO Technical Lead

[Carol Minton Morris]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

April 8, 2015

Read it online: http://duraspace.org/jobs
Contact: jobs at duraspace.org

*VIVO Project Seeks a Dynamic, Creative, and Innovative Technical Lead*

Are you ready to join an open source software community that’s transforming
the landscape for open scholarship? VIVO’s mission is to provide
world-class open source software, standard data ontologies, linked open
data, and services to our world-wide member institutions. VIVO is at the
forefront of a rapidly emerging infrastructure for integrating and sharing
information about researchers and scholars and their activities and outputs
so as to promote data sharing, attribution, and teamwork within and across
institutions. The outcome is a platform that enables discovery across a
distributed network of institutions worldwide.

VIVO seeks a dynamic, creative, and innovative Technical Lead for the
project. The VIVO Technical Lead will play a major role in a movement that
will shape the future of scholarly discovery and collaboration.  The VIVO
Technical Lead is a full-time position. Working collaboratively with the
VIVO Project Director, accountable to the VIVO Steering Group, and employed
by the non-profit DuraSpace organization, the Technical Lead will enable
the VIVO community to accomplish its goals by fulfilling the following
responsibilities:

*Overview of Responsibilities*

The VIVO Technical Lead will be responsible for providing leadership,
technical guidance, coordination, and support to the open source community
in its work to maintain, enhance, and evolve the VIVO software and
ontology, and to integrate community-produced apps and tools.  The
Technical Lead will ensure that the VIVO software products fulfill the
mission and strategic direction of the project and the needs of community
members.  Additionally, the Technical Lead will lead the effort to ensure
that VIVO implementation tools and application interfaces are made
user-friendly and provide value “out of the box.”

The Technical Lead will foster an inclusive, welcoming, and open team
environment, based on a meritocracy of committers, contributors,
ontologists, documentation specialists, technical trainers, and other
volunteer contributors.  S/he will recruit new members to the team from the
larger community of volunteers.  S/he will organize events such as
hackathons, training sessions, implementation fests, and the like to
provide multiple on-ramps for new contributors.

The Technical Lead will organize development sprints and team meetings that
are oriented towards incorporating all the work of the project – core
development, apps and tools creation, ontology work, documentation, etc. –
into an established release schedule.

S/he will attend VIVO Steering Group, Leadership Group, and Management Team
meetings. The Technical Lead, working in partnership with the Project
Director, will oversee a process of eliciting and documenting new use cases
that will be gathered from the VIVO membership.  The process will include
steps for surveying the community on feature priorities and will culminate
in a published, evolving roadmap of future work that aligns with the VIVO
strategic plan and value proposition.

S/he will coordinate technology activities among the Implementation,
Development, Applications and Tools, Ontology, and Community Engagement
Working Groups; identify, document, and communicate dependencies between
working groups; and identify solutions to enhance cross-working group
collaborations. The Technical Lead will provide support to technology Task
Forces and will monitor their progress.

S/he will provide oversight and coordination of VIVO architecture work and
ensure that VIVO core code, ontology, and applications and tools meet open
standards; will work with the community to support ontology improvements,
integrate community extensions and deliver applications and tools as tested
optional extensions to VIVO; maintain code base infrastructure; and
coordinate release management and testing activities.

S/he will work collaboratively with developers and stakeholders to create
and maintain a technical roadmap and will collaborate on strategic
planning. S/he will develop an understanding of the impact of technical
decisions on budgets, timelines, and the sustainability of the VIVO open
source project.

The Technical Lead will act as a technology spokesperson for VIVO, speaking
and giving presentations at meetings, conferences, and other events.

*The VIVO Technical Lead will coordinate project work by:*


   - Facilitating scoping of project efforts, soliciting and approving
   technology Task Forces, and soliciting community participation;
   - Tracking the progress of Task Force deliverables within defined scope
   and time;
   - Tracking, reporting, and communicating project status, progress, and
   deliverables among technology teams;
   - Identifying, addressing, and/or escalating issues that pose risks to
   the project;
   - Coordinating user acceptance testing within the community.


The VIVO Technical Lead will provide technical leadership, guidance, and
support to VIVO Working Group leads and technology Task Forces in the
following areas:


   - Software engineering;
   - Performance tuning;
   - Code refactoring;
   - Pull requests;
   - Ontology management;
   - System architecture;
   - Test writing;
   - Continuous integration testing;
   - Code documentation;
   - Release management;
   - Technical discussion on project email ;
   - Project infrastructure (email lists, blog, vivoweb.org website, IRC,
   issue tracking, continuous integration, GitHub code repository, SourceForge
   file repository, VIVO wiki resources).


*Skills and Competencies*

Required:


   - Bachelors degree, preferably in computer science, or equivalent work
   experience;
   - Minimum of five years technical work experience;
   - Demonstrated leadership experience within a distributed open source
   team environment;
   - Demonstrated success in mentoring, developing, and empowering staff
   with a collaborative and open approach; successful collaborations within
   and across organizations;
   - Positive leadership style and ability to thrive in a fast-paced
   environment; demonstrated initiative and flexibility;
   - Familiarity with academic institutions, research programs, and
   scholarly communication;
   - Ability to document processes and specifications; use of modern
   documentation strategies that are coupled to the code and services;
   - Fluency in the full stack of web-based technologies and architectures;
   - Experience with current and emerging data architectures and
   technologies;
   - Experience with linked-data technologies;
   - Proficiency with Java and web scripting languages;
   - Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, including the
   ability to communicate effectively with a diverse group of technologists,
   researchers, managers, funders, and peers;
   - Demonstrated ability to manage expectations and priorities
   diplomatically among various stakeholders.


*Desired:*


   - Past experience with and knowledge of best practices and current
   trends and issues in the application of technology to libraries, research
   programs, and academic institutions;
   - Experience working with a diverse and international community;
   - Experience in a startup environment;
   - Knowledge of semantic web and linked data technologies, SPARQL, RDF,
   OWL, relevant tools and APIs, and experience managing semantically
   annotated data, triple stores, and/or graph databases.


To Apply:  Send a cover letter and resume to jobs at duraspace.org.  Screening
of applications will commence immediately and continue until the position
is filled.

DuraSpace is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization providing
leadership and innovation for open technologies that promote durable,
persistent access to digital data. We collaborate with scholarly,
scientific, cultural, and technology communities by supporting open source
projects and creating services to help ensure that current and future
generations have access to our collective digital heritage.


DuraSpace is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer committed to
diversity, equity, and inclusiveness.  We offer a competitive salary and
benefits package, a work-from-home lifestyle, and a supportive peer group.
Significant travel is expected.
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