Monday, September 24, 2012

Job opening - PHP and Drupal Director of Application Services For Art Collections at The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

Always had an interest in paintings, drawings, sculptures, and other priceless works of art? Ever wonder what it would be like to work for a world-renowned museum and help manage the behind-the-scenes tech infrastructure of our 300,000 works of art? Then we’re looking for you.


The Art Institute of Chicago is looking for a leader to direct the implementation, application development, integration, and ongoing maintenance and support of systems supporting our art collection and exhibition programs. 


Currently, our museum uses 4D in a system called CITI to manage our artwork collection and associated interpretive assets. As our Director of Application Services, you’ll work with the entire Collections team to help us augment the systems and capture and catalogue this process in a better, fresher way. We’re looking for someone who can provide technical expertise, visionary and architectural oversight, and software programming suppo! rt for applications utilizing various technologies such as Drupal, PHP, MySQL, HTML5, Java, 4D etc. 


Responsibilities



  • Design, develop and manage integration architecture for sustainable dissemination of collection and exhibition assets and information.

  • Specify technical requirements and guidelines for projects utilizing external programming staff. 

  • Manage system requests for application enhancements and insures that proper resources are allocated and prioritized.

  • Ensure a sound technical infrastructure is maintained on all servers supporting collections and exhibitions. 

  • Work closely with the department of Digital Information and Access on project development, scope and user support needs.



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