Endeavour Recruitment is now recruiting an experienced Semantic Web Developer for their Publisher client based in Central London. This position is to work within an established Development Team that provide services through all areas of the SDLC. It is essential to have ‘hands on’ skills working with Semantic Web and Linked Data Technologies. This is a permanent role with a salary guide of £40K to £50K depending on experience.
Primary responsibilities will be that of maintenance and support of the existing Semantic Web Infrastructure. Hands on coding skills and a best practice engineering approach are amongst the essential skills required for this position. A proven track record with prior experience of developing large scale data applications is preferred.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Educated to degree level of higher in Computer Science or a related technology field.
- Experience of building semantic web based solutions.
- Experience of the software development lifecycle and Agile development methodologies.
- Experience building high traffic web based APIs and RESTful web services.
- Experience of providing client facing support is an advantage.
The key skills that are needed for this role are:
- Ontology, OWL, RDF, HTML5+RDFa
- Triplestores, SPARQL, Linked Data API
- HTTP and RESTful architectures
- Apache Web Server, Apache Tomcat, Apache Jena
- Maven, Java J2EE and PHP
- Test-driven development
Desirable skills are:
- Natural Language Processing with GATE
- Data Analysis using a machine-learning approach
- XML, XSLT, XQuery
- Orbeon
- Web Developing using JavaScript / jQuery / Drupal
- Search Engine tools such as Apache Solr / Lucene
- Source code repositories such as SVN or TFS and Continuous Integration
- Experience in publishing industry
For further information regarding this exciting opportunity, please don’t hesitate to apply.