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The Digital Libraries and Scholarly Technology (DLST) provides a focal point for the planning, coordination, infrastructure, and implementation needs of Columbia's evolving digital library.\r\nReporting 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.\r\nThis is a full-time temporary position expected to end on October 31, 2027.\r\nThis position supports a hybrid schedule that includes both on-site and remote workdays.\r\nResponsibilities Works closely with colleagues on all tasks in the software development and maintenance life cycle.\r\nDesigns and implements simple systems specified by senior team members or designated partners in the organization.\r\nDevelops expertise in the principal tools, platforms and languages used by the team.\r\nManipulates, converts, and analyzes datasets and digital objects; generates reports and datasets.\r\nOther duties as assigned.\r\nMinimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree and or its equivalent.\r\nMinimum of 2-4 years of related experience.\r\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills required.\r\nStrong interpersonal, teamwork, collaboration & analytical skills required.\r\nCommitment to supporting and working in a diverse environment.\r\nAbility to work within team standards in the design, development and maintenance of applications of moderate scope and complexity required.\r\nDemonstrated ability to contribute to a Ruby on Rails project and to use Unix command line tools.\r\nPreferred Qualifications Information Technology experience in an academic library (or related technology experience in higher education), especially in digital collections or institutional repository projects.\r\nExperience with the serialization, processing, and transformation of structured, schema-validated data (e.g., XML, JSON-LD, MARC).\r\nExperience in open-source and/or inter-institutional collaborative development (especially those relevant to digital library access and preservation systems).\r\nPublished: Wednesday, July 29, 2026 21:58 UTC\r\nContact\r\nhr@library.columbia.edu\r\nAcademic library\r\nJ-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Code4lib","rawCompany":"code4lib","city":"New York","state":"NY","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-08T01:53:06.840Z","occupations":[{"code":"25-4022.00","title":"Librarians and Media Collections Specialists","slug":"librarians-and-media-collections-specialists"},{"code":"25-1082.00","title":"Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary","slug":"library-science-teachers-postsecondary"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"}],"industries":[{"code":"519210","title":"Libraries and Archives","slug":"libraries-and-archives"},{"code":"611310","title":"Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools","slug":"colleges-universities-and-professional-schools"},{"code":"712110","title":"Museums","slug":"museums"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Associate Programmer/ Analyst - Anticaste Initiative","description":"Columbia University Libraries is currently seeking applicants for the position of Associate Programmer/Analyst – Anticaste Initiative in the Department of Digital Library and Scholarly Technologies. 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