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Information and Metadata Architect - MITRE Corporation (Bedford, MA)

Filed under GSLIS Jobs and Opportunities
Posted by GSLIS, January 05, 2009
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Position: Information and Metadata Architect Organization: The MITRE Corporation, on Fortune Magazine’s Best 100 Companies To Work For list 7 years in a row Location: Bedford, MA

Responsibilities: This position will provide Information Architecture expertise within MITRE’s Center for Information & Technology:

• Apply information architecture to the design of intranet applications and intranet web sites including the intranet homepage.
• Design enterprise-level and within-site navigation that meets user and business requirements.
• Collaborate with product managers and development teams to negotiate design feasibility. Partner with usability team on research and assessment activities, and devise improvements based on usability findings. Provide project teams with recommendations for practical trade-offs that get usable, well-designed products up and running.
• Document design intent clearly for both business and technical audiences, using site maps, wireframes, and interaction flow diagrams with appropriate functional and behavioral annotations.
• Conduct user interviews; collect, analyze, and summarize metrics/usage data; leverage results of data analysis to inform design decisions.
• Contribute to the development of enterprise standards, models, and guidelines including metadata architecture and methods for classification (e.g., taxonomies, ontologies, tagging, etc.). Consider ways to leverage current technologies (e.g., web services, RSS, etc.) to integrate intranet content and gain efficiency.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s, plus 6 years experience or the equivalent in job-relevant work experience.
• Experience applying information architecture and user-centered design techniques (such as interviews, card sorts, and usability tests), and using the data collected to produce prototypes, use cases, task flows, site maps, etc. for large, complex web sites.
• Experience architecting enterprise navigation.
• Working knowledge of Visio, Photoshop, and Microsoft Office applications required.
• Familiarity with HTML and CSS capabilities and constraints required. Direct experience with HTML, DHTML, XML, Java, Dreamweaver, and Macromedia Director a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years current, demonstrable experience in designing information architectures for complex systems. Current experience in developing metadata schemas for unstructured content, and applying metadata to information or knowledge systems.
• MA/MS preferred with multidisciplinary backgrounds such as Psychology, Computer Science, Information Science, Library Science, Information Systems, Human Factors, User Interface Design or equivalent experience in related disciplines.
• Experience designing user interfaces, creating navigation structures, and integrating web content in an intranet environment including experience with portals, directory services, collaborative applications, and search systems (including relevancy ranking, categorization, and tagging of content for greater precision in retrieval).
• Experience with enterprise information architecture, considering strategic information requirements and integrated content delivery.
• Understanding of basics of systems/software engineering practices, usability principles, requirements development, and testing principles.
• Experience developing topical and business taxonomies, metadata schemas, contolled vocabularies.
• Project management skills; demonstrated experience in managing projects that require defining goals, tasking others, and meeting scheduled milestones.
• Understanding of information management standards and best practices, particularly in areas of web site structures, content management systems, metadata, and lifecycle management.
• Business process analysis skills, including ability to analyze work processes and recommend changes to leverage technologies and gain efficiency.
• Excellent visual, verbal, and written communication and presentation skills.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to meet deadlines, prioritize, and work on multiple projects simultaneously with great efficiency and attention to detail.
• Strong analytical and process-oriented problem-solving skills.
• Ability to function successfully in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment and influence team members without formal authority.
• Understanding of metadata standards such as Dublin Core, MARC and EAD.

Apply: Please apply online at: www.mitre.org/employment/searchjobs Reference requisition number 10730BR.