Vacancy for Application Specialist - Ingest and Preservation at the British Library
29 August 2022
Location: Boston Spa or St Pancras
Employment Type: Full-Time
Do you have what it takes to resolve issues and problems in production applications for the British Library? Can you work with a wide variety of library users to deliver changes to services, such as upgrading our Digital Library Systems?
Would you like to be part of a team that you can be proud of while enjoying the benefits of working in the Public Sector? The British Library has a rare opportunity for an Application Specialist in our Ingest and Preservation team, based in Boston Spa (Wetherby) or St Pancras (London), with a hybrid working pattern.
If you work for us, you will be helping to support and develop British Library services and getting involved with many exciting new projects.
We will take care of you with:
- 25 days annual leave, plus 2.5 privilege days (plus Bank Holidays on top!)
- Employers Pension Contribution of 26.6% - 30.3%
- Access to training courses to continue your professional development
About you:
- Experience of supporting, configuring, and monitoring third-party/packaged or bespoke applications
- Experience of operational acceptance testing and deploying changes to production systems using appropriate controls
- Excellent communicator with a demonstrable ability to work as part of a team to agreed customer service levels and SLAs
- Proven problem-solving skills using a logical and considered approach
- Proven systems analysis and documentation skills
- Experience of data migration and file management
- Experience of supporting applications in a Windows environment
- Knowledge and experience of SQL database querying