Application Programmer Analyst - Infrastructure Services

Date Posted: 05/06/2025
Req ID: 42773
Faculty/Division: Library
Department: Scholars Portal
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00058013

Description:

About us:

The University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) system is the largest academic library in Canada and is ranked in the top five among peer institutions in North America. The system comprises 40 libraries located across three university campuses: St. George, Mississauga, and Scarborough. This diverse and extensive network of college libraries, special collections, and specialized information centres plays a pivotal role in supporting the teaching, scholarly, and research needs of nearly 100,000 students enrolled in a wide array of graduate, professional, and undergraduate programs.

The library system provides access to millions of resources in various formats, including electronic, print, audio-visual, data and geospatial materials. UTL also boasts impressive holdings of archival material and substantial digital collections, securely preserved in the libraries' data centre. The staff at UTL are integral to the academic and scholarly enterprise, working closely with faculty and students to support their teaching, learning, and research requirements. They are subject matter experts; they are skilled in research data management, collections, statistics, GIS, metadata, digital preservation, scholarly communications, copyright, teaching, knowledge synthesis, open access and much more. Our work is grounded in our commitment to support equity, diversity, and inclusion.

UTL continuously evolves to meet the changing academic priorities and pressures at the University and within the broader landscape of higher education.

Your opportunity:
Scholars Portal, a department of the University of Toronto Libraries (UTL), is the digital service arm of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), managing infrastructure and services that
support Ontario’s 21 university libraries. The Scholars Portal team of librarians, developers, and systems staff support services in four broad areas: research and member services; data and
geospatial services; digital collections; and digital preservation services.

As a member of the Systems Team, the Application Programmer – Infrastructure Services will contribute to the maintenance and enhancement of key applications, including DuraCloud, Archivematica, and OpenStack Swift. The successful candidate will be responsible for updating, testing, documenting, and troubleshooting open-source applications, as well as customizing, integrating, and supporting third-party applications and APIs within the Scholars Portal ecosystem.

We are seeking a full stack developer who is eager to expand their knowledge of systems operations and is passionate about building robust, reliable, and accessible webapplications that support researchers across Ontario’s university community.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Writing complex technical code
• Designing, testing, and modifying programming code
• Analyzing and writing programming code structures based on user requirements
• Evaluating programming code to ensure it has validity, compatibility, and that it meets appropriate standards
• Commenting on programming code for the purposes of standardization and consistency
• Creating complex and technical documentation and user support guides

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or acceptable combination of relevant /equivalent education and experience.
• Minimum four (4) years experience in a development role
• Required experience using: Archivematica, DuraCloud

• Required proficiency/experience with Python, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, CSS, Ruby, Bash

• Familiarity w/ Django

• Familiarity w/ UNIX based operating systems (macOS, Ubuntu, etc.)

• Experience with Docker, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Adaptable
• Efficient
• Goal oriented
• Organized
• Responsible
• Self-directed
• Team player

Notes:

This is a one (1) year term contract

Closing Date: 05/23/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW 
Appointment Type: Budget - Term 
Schedule:
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:  
USW Pay Band 12 -- $79,874. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $102,147. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol. 
Job Category: Information Technology (IT)
 

Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.