Our team is looking for an IT Architect for our RISE project, and we hope to
find someone who knows Chinese aside from being a software architect! Please
help disseminate! Please see details in the web page below.
IT Architect (full time, up to TVöD E14), at Max Planck Institute for the
History of Science, Berlin, Germany.
The position will be for one year, with possibility of extension(s). Starting
date: as soon as possible, but no later than January 1, 2020.
Part of the digital humanities team in Dept. III, the successful candidate
will work as the IT Architect for the Research Infrastructure for the Study
of Eurasia (RISE). RISE is a digital research infrastructure that facilitates
the seamless, secure linkage among digital research tools and textual
collections via APIs. It has a loosely coupled software architecture, built
with technologies like Javascript, Ruby on Rails, and PostgreSQL. The
successful candidate will be expected to maintain, enhance, and continue to
design and develop RISE and its associated technical products. In addition,
s/he will be expected to communicate the work to both technical and
non-technical audiences, especially to historians and digital humanities
scholars. S/he will also be expected to network with other developers,
present at conferences and events, and work collaboratively with other
researchers and developers both within and outside the Institute. The
successful candidate will work closely with Dr. Shih-Pei Chen and Sean Wang.
The working language is English.
Please see full details including requirements at
https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/career.
Application deadline: September 01, 2019