User Interface/UX Developer, Knowledge and Library Services, HBS

Reporting to the Director, Baker 3.0 Strategy and Infrastructure and partnering closely with HBS Information Technology (IT) and KLS teams, the UI/UX Developer will work to help design and develop next-generation search and discovery applications for HBS.

We are looking for an innovative front-end developer with strong communicator and listening skills, a rock-solid technical background in UI/UX technologies and a record of working with developers as well as domain-experts in providing content-based, search-enabled services. We are in the midst of a long-range strategy to overhaul the HBS public presence, to become an integrated, personalized, semantically-based experience.

Key Responsibilities:

Design and collaborate with domain-experts and IT to develop and support a world-class, next-generation search and discovery platform
Incrementally improve the user experience in our current environment, working on a variety of problems from building entire microsites to refining search-results processing.
Understand, integrate, and support, as necessary, specialized information technologies currently in use, interfacing with HBS personnel in KLS, IT, and HU OIS, as well as other information professionals, vendors, and contractors, as necessary

Basic Qualifications

BA/BS with 7+ years of experience is required.

Experience manipulating semantic knowledge sources (thesauri, ontologies, semantic lexicons, semantic networks, etc.) for use in information retrieval environments, and semantic technologies – ex: RDF, SKOS and OWL.

Experienced in various technology stacks: LAMP, SQL (MS SQL Server and/or MySQL), Excel/MS Access.

Additional Qualifications

MS in Information Science, Computer Science or related field with emphasis on UI/UX development is preferred.

Strong analytical skills: capacity, performance, quality, statistics, complexity. Strong verbal, interpersonal, written, and management skills.

Strong foundation in system design, software architecture, web technologies, and Information Retrieval.

Working knowledge of information retrieval frameworks, such as Apache Lucene/Solr and elasticsearch.

Demonstrated ability to collaborate with software engineers to find technical solutions to design problems.

Experience developing UI and templates on open source CMS.

Knowledge and proven ability to work with various UI/UX frameworks, including CSS- and JavaScript-based (e.g. jQuery, knockout, bootstrap, SASS).

Additional Information

Cover Letter is required

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