Library Systems & Applications Developer
Job no: 496739
Position Type: Staff Full Time
Campus: UMass Boston
Department: Healey Library
Pay Grade: 31
Date opened: Eastern Standard Time
Applications close: Eastern Standard Time
General Summary:
Reporting to the Head of Library Systems and Discovery Services (LSDS), the Library Systems and Applications Developer will play a key role in enhancing and optimizing the Library’s enterprise systems, including Alma/Primo, inter-library loan, EZproxy, and other systems and applications, in order to enable quality services and efficient workflows and meet the needs of our diverse user community. The LSDS department is responsible for library core system infrastructure and the discovery services that support research, scholarship, teaching, and learning at UMass Boston. Healey Library recently migrated to Ex Libris’ cloud-based Alma resource management and Primo discovery systems.
The Library Systems and Applications Developer will be responsible for providing the programming and technical expertise needed for the development, integration, and support of a wide array of library systems, applications, and services. The incumbent will help analyze, design and implement library systems infrastructures and user interfaces; will adapt new and existing web tools to improve the library’s front-end discovery and access applications and platforms, including the new library search and discovery system Primo; will explore new technologies