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SENIOR DATA CURATOR, THE OFFICE OF FACULTY DATA SYSTEMS & ANALYSIS

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Duke University
Location
PAS Adm - Provost Office

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Employment Type
Full Time
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

Job Details

Duke University:

Duke University was created in 1924 through an indenture of trust by James Buchanan Duke. Today, Duke is regarded as one of America’s leading research universities. Located in Durham, North Carolina, Duke is positioned in the heart of the Research Triangle, which is ranked annually as one of the best places in the country to work and live. Duke has more than 15,000 students who study and conduct research in its 10 undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. With about 40,000 employees, Duke is the third largest private employer in North Carolina, and it now has international programs in more than 150 countries.

Senior Data Curator

The Office of Faculty Data Systems & Analysis supports the operational use of academic data and open scholarship at all levels across the institution. We coordinate the processes, standards, and systems that make this evolving data easier to collect, maintain, and analyze. The data sets we work with include, but are not limited to, person affiliations, scholarly outputs, geographic and external relationships, funding, professional activities, and awards. Our services include business analysis, data curation, application development & testing, self-service reporting, and community engagement.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Director of Faculty Data Systems & Analysis, the Senior Data Curator will help to create data-driven efficiencies and research intelligence capabilities by ensuring that aggregated data elements are made available across various institutional platforms. The Senior Data Curator will combine a librarian's understanding of metadata and knowledge mapping with a programmer's ability to write and refactor queries and implement new data solutions. This position will become proficient in the data lifecycle and will be in frequent communications with data owners and data consumers. This position will work with a cross-functional team including the project manager, application developers, librarians, and domain experts to maintain continuous streams of data. The Senior Data Curator must be able to multitask, learn quickly, prioritize, and think creatively

The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of information architecture along with working experience in higher-education or a research setting. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Collaborate on all aspects of the ETL process, including the data warehouse and application layer. This includes supporting production systems and participating in weekly development meetings.
  • Translate the logic from data queries and code into plain language that can be more easily understood and communicated.
  • Perform data integrity audits, propose data cleanup processes, and write test plans to ensure data is validated.
  • Explore and pilot new and insightful modes of data sharing, including standard reports, data visualizations, interactive dashboards, and recommendation engines.

  • Serve as the liaison to data consumers across the university. This includes maintaining training documentation, data dictionaries, schematics, etc. This position will also participate in user groups.
  • Work with domain experts across the university to assess potential new data sources

  • Rotate on-call duties to help resolve technical support questions that come through the help desk.

Required Experience

  • Work requires a Bachelor’s Degree.
  • At least three years of experience working in metadata standards, databases, analytics, or business intelligence.
  • Knowledge of information architecture
  • Demonstrated experience with SQL
  • Demonstrated experience with Tableau or a similar visualization tool
  • Demonstrated experience supporting and testing a production-level application
  • Willingness to learn new technologies and query languages
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Experience

  • Master's degree in Library Science, Information Science, Computer Science or Information Technology
  • Demonstrated experience with SPARQL, R, Cypher, GraphQL, or Python
  • Experience working with digital repositories
  • Experience working with semantic web technologies, linked open data, ontologies
  • Experience with web services is a plus
  • Familiarity with Solr or Elasticsearch

This position may have an opportunity to work remotely. All Duke University remote workers must reside in one of the following states or districts: California; Florida; Georgia; Maryland; New York; North Carolina; South Carolina; Tennessee; Texas; Virginia or Washington, DC.

Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.

Organization

Read our Diversity Profile History

Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.Duke Campus

As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.

Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.

Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.

Mission Statement

Duke Science"James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'

“To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.Duke Meeting

 “By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”

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