Applications Developer (Linked Open Data)

University of York
October 18, 2024
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Applications Developer (Linked Open Data)

Department

Archaeology

Salary

£44,263 - £54,395 a year

Grade

Grade 7

Contract status

Open

Hours of work

Full-time

Based at

University of York campus (with some remote working options available)

Interview date

21/11/2024

Posted Date

01/10/2024

Apply by

18/10/2024

Job Reference

13593

Documents

  • Candidate Brief 13593.pdf (PDF, 2796.56kb)
  • Role Description Department

    The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) is a world-leading digital repository which provides digital data archiving services for UK archaeology and heritage. We are based in the King's Manor in the University of York but we work closely with external partners, both in Higher Education and in the public and commercial archaeological sectors. We are an established component of UKRI's digital research infrastructure and we are also active in international collaborations, as a leading member of the ARIADNE European Research Infrastructure. As a result of a successful £14.4m bid to AHRC under the RICHeS programme we are now leading a consortium to develop and host a Heritage Science Data Service (HSDS).

    Role

    Under the overall supervision of the ADS Lead Applications Developer, the Applications Developer will join a team of developers who are working on new projects and supporting existing services. This role will have a specific responsibility for installing and maintaining a triple store of Linked Open Data which underpins national and international portals managed by the ADS, HSDS, and our European partners in the ARIADNE research infrastructure. They will collaborate with the development team to design, develop, and maintain knowledge graph databases for intelligence analysis purposes, develop data models and ontologies to represent entities, relationships, and attributes within the knowledge graph, and optimise query performance and implement indexing strategies to enhance database retrieval and analysis capabilities.

    Skills, Experience & Qualification needed

    You should have a degree level qualification in an IT field or equivalent employment experience, of at least three years. You must have knowledge of Semantic Web technologies (RDF/s, OWL), query languages (SPARQL) and validation/reasoning approaches and standards, of software architectures, modern web application development, the support of high availability IT systems, the design and operation of IT systems in relation to GDPR, of HTTP and APIs, and of agile development methods and decision-making. You should be able to reconcile conflicting priorities and to respond positively to complete tasks to deadlines and specified standards in a busy service environment, to communicate complex topics to a technical and non-technical audience, and to lead complex software development projects in collaboration with others, including technical leadership, innovation and problem resolution. You must have experience of the implementation and management of a graph database, installing and maintaining a search and analytics engine (Elasticsearch / OpenSearch), developing SPARQL and API queries, and familiarity with Windows and Linux operating systems as well as software development and deployment tools, e.g., Docker, Git. Experience of working with taxonomies, ontologies, and controlled vocabularies and of modern OO/dynamic programming languages such as JavaScript, Ruby, or Java is also essential.

    Interview date: 21st November 2024

    For informal enquiries: please contact the HSDS Manager, Jo Tozer on service- [email protected]

    Please see https: // features.york.ac.uk/hsds-jobs for further information.

    This position is based at the University's beautiful King's Manor campus in York city centre. As an inclusive employer, the University offers flexible working arrangements (including hybrid working) for all staff.

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