Sr. Technical Manager
Core
Lead a self-managed team delivering a greenfield platform for WorldCat Entities and related linked data applications, focusing on entity creation, enrichment, reconciliation, and search/discovery.
Role type
Senior hands-on engineering manager (player-coach)
Builds
Greenfield platform for WorldCat Entities and linked data applications
Domain
Library technology, knowledge graphs, linked data, semantic web
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Java/Spring Boot, distributed systems design, AWS, container orchestration (EKS/ECS), search technologies (OpenSearch/Elasticsearch), relational databases (PostgreSQL/Aurora/RDS), CI/CD, API design, data pipeline automation, system operations
Preferred skills
Knowledge graph implementations (RDF triple stores, property graph databases), linked data/semantic web concepts (RDF, BIBFRAME, entity resolution), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), accessibility considerations
Technologies
Java, Spring Boot, AWS, EKS, ECS, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Aurora, RDS, REST, event-driven patterns, Terraform
Responsibilities
Lead a self-managed team delivering a greenfield platform; Drive architecture and technical direction for high-scale services; Contribute hands-on through design docs, technical spikes, PRs, code reviews, pairing; Ensure production readiness (SLAs, monitoring, incident response); Guide data pipeline and integration work; Lead modern API and service design; Establish and evolve engineering practices; Coach and develop engineers; Coordinate cross-team technical work
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
