1EdTech Consortium is the world’s leading organization dedicated to education technology innovation and interoperability, committed to better learning through better learning technology. We have openings for technical standards architects.
Architects assume responsibility for coordinating, developing and publishing interoperability standards based upon member’s requirements, input and collaboration.
The ideal candidate will have working knowledge of 1EdTech standards including:
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Caliper Learning Analytics
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Learning Tools Interoperability
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Open Badges
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Comprehensive Learner Record
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Competency and Academic Standards Exchange
The successful will have the ability to lead technical progress in workgroups, the skills to provide technical support to members implementing the standards, and the software development skills to create and update software libraries and tools to advise members with their integrations.
The architect will be expected to effectively communicate technical details to a technical and non-technical audiences verbally and in writing. The architect will ensure the standards within their leadership are integrated with other 1EdTech standards and practices in a cohesive educational technology ecosystem.
Duties include:
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Overseeing and developing standard specifications in assigned responsibility, contribute to the requirements and development of compliance certification software suite and libraries which help members more quickly implement 1EdTech standards
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Lead communications and other activities with 1EdTech Members centered around the assigned standards to develop best practices and developer guides and assist with authoring and editing of the documents
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Adopt an agile method of development to publish minimal viable products quickly and refine and iterate over time
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Provide timely technical guidance and consultation to 1EdTech member organizations to facilitate understanding, adoption, certification and implementation testing as needed
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Actively contribute to the 1EdTech knowledge base and member’s forum via frequently asked questions and answers, including responding to 1EdTech member posted questions
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Work to build and manage a community of developers and implementers via active collaboration, providing support and tools to grow and foster community participation by members
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Support the assigned program manager responsible for organizing workgroups, planning and communicating workgroup activities
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Track issues and concerns related to compliance certification for improvements to the testsuite
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Lead the alignment of assigned standards with other 1EdTech standards and ecosystem-wide standards such as security, data and other cross-cutting topics and contribute to those 1EdTech ecosystem efforts
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Provide member training and bootcamps to help speed adoption and implementations
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Occasionally represent 1EdTech at various meetings and conferences as agreed in advance
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Help to grow and provide direction for future 1EdTech standards development
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Works closely with colleagues on the 1EdTech staff
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Attend weekly staff calls
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Provide a weekly report shared with all staff
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Ensure members receive priority support and not share technical details with non-members prior to public release
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Provide on average a minimum of 40 hours of work to 1EdTech per week in performance of the above services.Normal hours of operation are based upon US Eastern Time zone
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Other duties as assigned
Education: Bachelors' Degree
Travel: Four times per year 1EdTech hosts a four-day member’s meeting in locations primarily in the United States. Other periodic and incidental travel may also be necessary.
To apply for a position, please send an email explaining why you are a good fit along with your resume and salary requirements to jobs@imsglobal.org. All inquiries will be treated confidentially.
