University of California, Santa Barbara: Associate Director for D...
Morfyus - Santa Barbara, California, us, 93190![Morfyus](/api/image?src=https%3A%2F%2Fgeneral-board-default.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdesk-360x180.webp&w=640&q=75&f=webp)
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Master's degree in the field of library and information science, computer science, computer engineering, management information systems, or information technology, or equivalent experience.Experience developing and deploying a Rails application in production environments.Experience designing and developing library software, digital repositories, digital asset management, or other information management systems. Advanced knowledge of technologies for storage, management, and preservation of digital assets.Experience working in a library or higher education environment.Position approved for remote work. Some travel required.Job Functions and Percentages of Time:
Unit Administration & Supervision 15%
- Directly supervises the software engineering unit. Establishes goals and objectives, assigns duties, evaluates performance, and provides career and professional development guidance. Approves timecards for all staff in the unit via Kronos Timekeeping. Provides leadership, training, and mentorship to engineering team staff. Ensures that staff understands relevant engineering practices, procedures, and policies.Application Architecture 40%
- Applies advanced IT architecture concepts to function as the highest level technical expert with responsibility for the overall technical direction and strategy for the digital library, including its architecture, databases, storage, and integration with external platforms. Leads the development and maintenance of applications and other software supporting the digital library program. Initiates, designs and deploys large scale systems. Designs highly complex user systems interfaces, business software prototypes and new systems or major enhancements to existing programs. Leads and provides technical guidance to a large development team in the design of highly complex systems. Works with a full-stack team, including library, campus, UC system-wide, and community collaborators to develop and deploy digital library solutions. Produces high level design documents and statements of work to specify deliverables and timelines, and collaborates with Product Owners, subject matter experts, and stakeholders to understand requirements for architecture. Collaborates with service delivery teams to ensure services are delivered as specified in the statements of work and meet stakeholder's outcome objectives. Establishes metrics and evaluates results. Employs Agile methodology in working with project and product managers to establish technical requirements, adjust project scope, and evaluate resource needs to achieve successful implementation of major features. Defines domain boundaries, API functionality, and data standards to promote clean separation of responsibility in a cloud-native/ microservices environment. Maintains systems architecture and other technical documentation throughout project and service lifecycles. Provides guidance and helps implement industry standards and best practices. Performs highly complex feasibility analysis on current and potential future projects, and presents findings to library administration.Cloud Architecture & Operations 20%
- Architects solutions in Amazon Web Services (AWS) that meet specified performance and security expectations. Provides appropriate cost modeling including estimates of ongoing costs for AWS Service consumption and Digital Library's managed services. Oversees build environments, source control systems, software delivery pipelines, and production infrastructure for complex cloud applications. Oversees the container orchestration platform (Kubernetes), including its infrastructure, APIs, and system workloads. Provides configuration management support. Oversees project software and documentation inventory and configuration baselines, including container image and deployment configurations for complex cloud-native applications. Develops cloud strategies that meet stakeholder requirements. Drives the implementation and adoption of key new cloud technologies.Application Development 20%
- Applies advanced software concepts to plan, design, develop, modify, debug, deploy and evaluate highly complex software in support of the digital library program. Functions as the highest level technical expert on application development with Ruby on Rails. Serves as technical lead for multiple software development projects of moderate to broad scope. Develops conversion and system implementation plans. Enforces project plans. Provides development and implementation for architecture design concepts and critical application components. Performs or directs highly complex data modeling, performance, and integration testing, and builds interfaces. Specifies, develops, and executes complex test plans. Designs, implements, and deploys continuous integration solutions that optimize team productivity and the quality of deliverables. Leads other developers in agile, test-driven development Determines source code control techniques and configuration management design and changes. Initiates and oversees changes in development, maintenance and system standards. Identifies coding practices and patterns. Leads implementation of patterns through exemplary contributions and code review. Directs and approves system and programming documentation. Understands and applies industry practices, community standards and departmental policies and procedures in depth.Miscellaneous 5% - Takes part in departmental planning meetings. Contributes to library and campus committees, as appropriate. Participates in open source collaborations on behalf of UC Santa Barbara. Attends trainings, workshops, and conferences.
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