About the Company:
UNAVCO is a member-governed university consortium, an organization that is uniquely positioned to advance and support geodesy community science goals. In addition to 85 US academic members, UNAVCO supports more than 50 organizations at home and abroad as associate members that share UNAVCO’s mission and benefit from its programs and services. Before incorporation in 2001, UNAVCO existed under different organizational umbrellas for nearly two decades as the University Navstar Consortium, then primarily serving geophysicists and geodesists who study tectonic deformation using high-precision GPS technology. Over the last decade, UNAVCO’s scope has expanded significantly, serving new science communities – including those who focus on the deformation of ice, the Earth’s response to ground water, sea level, and other aspects of the hydrosphere, and renewed interest in imaging the structure of the atmosphere. At the same time, the toolbox available to the science community and supported by UNAVCO has expanded to include many new geodetic tools: advancing GPS towards mm-level global GPS geodesy and to streaming high rate observations; borehole strain meters and seismometers, expanded geodetic imaging using LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging ) for Airborne Laser Swath Mapping, InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar), and Terrestrial Laser Scanning, web services and cyberinfrastructure. At the same time, GPS is finding applications in a frequency range that used to be the sole provenance of seismology, as GPS moves from one solution per day to one solution per second, with high precision. These changes are part of a conscious strategy to meet the future needs of the science community.
The UNAVCO Facility located in Boulder, Colorado provides science support through community coordination, field engineering, data services, technology innovation, and instrument testing, acquisition, and deployment. Further, it supports state-of-the-art global geodetic infrastructure that is developed and operated through international collaborations. EarthScope, a set of integrated geophysical observatories, supports investigation of the entire temporal spectrum of Earth deformation processes. In particular, the Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) including GeoEarthScope provides unprecedented geodetic imaging of plate boundary deformation. Together, the UNAVCO Facility and PBO are committed to enabling efficient testing, adoption, and implementation of rapidly evolving geodetic technologies needed to support cutting edge geodynamics research.
Our long-term success depends on development of a forward-looking, diversified workforce that draws on and cultivates talent across the demographic spectrum of gender and ethnicity, across international boundaries, and across scientific disciplines. The UNAVCO community further relies on the Education and Outreach program to inform the public interest and to support the development of partnerships, collaborations, curricula, and student opportunities.
Most of these activities, staff, and facilities are centered in Boulder, Colorado. Plate Boundary Observatory maintains regional offices in San Clemente, California and Anchorage, Alaska. UNAVCO field engineering staff are often deployed on assignments around the world.
Core sponsorship for UNAVCO is provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
The ideal candidate:
To perform this job successfully, this individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical Demands
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include those necessary to operate a personal computer. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is generally seated at a desk. The employee is frequently required to speak to others and to listen and comprehend.
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
Required - Proficient in object oriented software analysis, design, and development including pattern-oriented design. Proficient in development of web services using Java, SOAP, XML, HTTP, Tomcat, and Axis2. - Experience in SQL and in programming queries using database access with JDBC. - Experience utilizing software engineering best practices such as source control and iterative design. Ability to employ Test-Driven Development approaches to create high quality software systems. - Experience in working independently with minimal supervision to develop and document complex software throughout the software design and development lifecycle. - Experience with computing in networked environments, preferably with Solaris and RH Linux. Working skills on MS Windows and MacOS. - Effective skills in oral and written communication in English. • Effective interpersonal skills in working with peers, supervisors, and in team-oriented projects.
Desired
- Basic knowledge of GPS, Geodesy, or Geophysics/Geology.
- Experience with Object-Relational Mapping using Hibernate.
- Knowledge of ISO metadata standards.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience) is required.
- A minimum of 4 years experience as a Software Developer using Java to develop web services is required.
Job Description and responsibilities:
The compensation for this position is funded by a NASA grant. It is expected that the grant will last for 24 months.
SUMMARY OF JOB This individual will perform the role of lead software developer in support of UNAVCO’s role in the NASA-funded, multi-institutional effort to modernize the Geodetic Seamless Archive through Service Oriented Architecture. This individual will coordinate technical information sharing for this cross-institutional effort.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
- Responsible for developing a service-oriented architecture based on SOAP XML web services or analogous technology for delivering metadata and data search capability over the internet to Geodetic Seamless Archive participants, including providing web services access to UNAVCO’s GPS/GNSS archived data, real time streams, and products.
- Takes a leadership role in the cross-institutional architecture design, schema definitions, web services and metrics systems.
- Works with the Data Group’s Data Archive Interface web developers to enable a Geodetic Seamless Archive capable Data Archive Interface.
- Implements a WIKI system for technical communications among participant institutions and interested third parties.
- Travels to confer with technical collaborators at partner institutions approximately three times per year.
- Assists the Project Manager with required reports to sponsor.
- Keeps abreast of current software best practices and trends affecting Data Group software systems.
- Other duties may be assigned as necessary for the successful operation of the business.
To apply:
Interested? Candidates should apply at www.unavco.org/careers.