Job Opportunities
DLST is hiring! The positions listed here are open until filled. If you're interested in digital libraries and library web services, we'd be excited to hear from you. We hire in two employment groups: Officers of the Administration, which designates general professional staff at Columbia, and Officers of the Libraries, librarian positions which have additional educational requirements and a dedicated system of professional ranks and governing policies.
Associate Programmer/ Analyst – Anticaste Initiative
Summary
This is a term-limited, early/mid career Officer of Administration position with our infrastructure and applications team. The incumbent will contribute to a our online digital collections interface, with an emphasis on developing multilingual search, display, and site navigation features in support of aligning the language of interface with the language of the collection materials where possible.
These applications are built with Rails and Blacklight, and we invite applications from candidates who are motivated to develop the ability to contribute to Ruby web projects. We are especially interested in candidates with experience in open source and/or collaborative development in the higher education or cultural heritage sectors!
Position Description
Reporting to the Head of Development, Infrastructure and Application, the Associate Programmer/Analyst – Anticaste Initiative assists in the development, maintenance, and integration of systems supporting the management and publication of digitized materials in non-English languages in the Columbia University Libraries' Digital Collections, and in the implementation of an internationalized user interface for their discovery. This includes working as necessary in all of the Development, Infrastructure & Application Group’s principal languages, tools, and platforms, with an emphasis on Ruby on Rails web-based applications and related services. In addition to application development, the position is responsible for supporting data conversion, migration, and analysis through the use and creation of Unix command-line tools.
This is a full-time temporary position expected to end on October 31, 2027.
This position supports a hybrid schedule that includes both on-site and remote workdays.